Workforce Efficiency Quotes

It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don't know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive.

We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.

Partly, the Russian system succeeds because, in contrast to the Western industrial economies, it makes full use of its manpower.

Nothing disturbs me more than the downward trend of productivity in our nation today. The consequences of a decrease in productivity are a diminished standard of living, higher labor costs, less competitive prices, and more inflation.

If all men labored hard every hour of the twenty-four, they could not do all the work of the world.

In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.

Good wages are pro business, since they reduce turnover, increase morale, produce better-skilled employees, and improve productivity.

You cannot be effective if those who work for you are not. So building their effectiveness ought to be a priority.

What the carburetor, sparkplug and self-starter are to an automobile, initiative, private enterprise and executive ability are to industry as a whole, including the wage earner, wage payer, wage spender and wage saver, i.e., the investor. If the sparkplug and self-starter get out of commission, the car will come to a standstill.

The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.

The American worker is more productive than he's ever been.

It takes 10 years to get all the permits to build a bridge today. Ten years? What happened to the good old can-do America? Where is "We get it done, we work together"? We've become this bureaucratic, stifling environment. I'm not talking about violating environmental things - I'm talking about building a bridge, getting things going, getting people to work together.

Apprenticeships are the real nitty-gritty way of creating an efficient, skillful and vibrant workforce.

To make three guineas do the work of five.

What seems extraordinary is that the richest countries in the world, in terms of economic output, are the ones where we work hardest. You would have thought that the end of all this innovation, technological advancement, and financial wizardry should be to create less work, not more of it.

The American worker is more productive than he's ever been. We've got more people to do it. We've got all the ingredients for a sensational future. It's just that right now the athlete's on the floor. This is a super athlete.