Better things Quote by John Harvey-Jones

If each year slightly less capital is invested in industry, the time will eventually come when the amount of equipment per laborer and, in…

— Sumner Slichter

This present system by which industry is motivated exclusively by the quest for maximal profits - though it may have helped a great deal…

— Benjamin Spock

Improve constantly and forever the system of production and service, to improve quality and productivity, and thus constantly decrease costs.

— W. Edwards Deming

When you solve big, hard problems, problems that fundamentally improve how an industry works, financial returns follow, giving you resources to do more of…

— Joe Lonsdale

It takes more than industry to industrialize.

— Walt Whitman Rostow

As nothing truly valuable can be attained without industry, so there can be no persevering industry without a deep sense of the value of…

— Lydia Sigourney

“production capability increases through investment and productivity gains, allowing supply to expand to sustain the growing demand and to generate increasing net incomes. The…

— Edward A. Hudson

Globally, manufacturing jobs are on the decline, simply because productivity growth has outpaced growth in demand.

— Joseph Stiglitz

In manufacturing, where mechanization and the use of chemical processes are much easier, it is easier to raise productivity than in services. In contrast,…

— Ha-Joon Chang

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

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

Over a long period of time, technological change is something that has been important in reducing manufacturing employment - absolutely and as a share…

— Janet Yellen