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If you don't understand how to run an efficient operation, new machinery will just give you new problems of operation and maintenance. The sure…

— W. Edwards Deming

In earlier years, a lesser effort produced literally dozens of comparable opportunities. It is difficult to be objective about the causes for such diminution…

— Warren Buffett

Productivity = creating value and delivering it to people. All other busywork is unproductive fluff and should be minimized.

— Steve Pavlina

Manufacturing productivity is greatly determined by the design of jobs and how workers are rewarded.

— James O'Toole

Where to focus only on productivity | The quality is futile to expect

— Mak_786

For decades, the pace of technological change in manufacturing has outstripped that in the economy as a whole. And, so, firms - manufacturing firms…

— Janet Yellen

Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth are very…

— Janet Yellen

The system continually has to make this choice: it can either continue to exploit a known process and make it more productive, or it…

— Kevin Kelly

The only way to create prosperity is to do more with less. In economic terms, an increase in productivity is an increase in the…

— Joe Lonsdale

Secret to productivity is not finding more time to do more stuff, but finding the strength to do less of the stuff that doesnt…

— David Heinemeier Hansson

In diminishing the role of the worker's body in the labor process, industrial technology has also tended to diminish the importance of the worker.…

— Shoshana Zuboff

The task of industry is continuously, year on year, to make more and better things, using less of the world's resources.

— John Harvey-Jones