Economics Quote by Alfred P. Sloan

If you increase living standards, you make labor more productive. This is why Asia today is becoming more productive than the United States.

— Michael Hudson

Increased jobs are the consequence of increased trade. Increasing jobs more than output implies a fall in productivity and standards of living. That surely…

— Alan Greenspan

I do believe that as the country becomes more attractive in the manufacturing sector, salaries can improve, and opportunities can expand.

— Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal

Capitalism has improved the standard of living of the wage earners to an unprecedented extent. The average American family enjoys today amenities of which,…

— Ludwig von Mises

I believe we can do much more to adapt to the structural changes in the global economy, get high-end manufacturing back here, set up…

— William J. Clinton

In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a people ever…

— Charles E. Wilson

The only way you get economic progress, real standards of living moving higher, is to have the savings of the society continuously invested in…

— Alan Greenspan

More of the same will just produce more of the same: less competitiveness, less growth, fewer jobs.

— David Cameron

If we want to revive and achieve the American Dream, we need to change a situation in which the people whose hard work makes…

— Stephanie Coontz

In reality, we've had more spending, more bureaucracy, more waste and higher costs but without necessary reform nor rising productivity.

— Andrew Lansley

When you increase productivity, economies become better - local economies become better, society becomes better.

— Jensen Huang

The industrial age is over. What follows will be life lived on a much smaller and finer scale.

— James Howard Kunstler