Division of labor Quote by Paul Romer

“Smith argued that it was possible for all nations to increase their wealth by adopting policies that promote specialization and the division of labor.”

— Edd S. Noell

“One problem with the division of labor in our complex economy is how it obscures the lines of connection, and therefore of responsibility, between…

— Michael Pollan

The celebrated Adam Smith was the first to point out the immense increase of production, and the superior perfection of products referable to this…

— Jean-Baptiste Say

“The most productive firms reinvented and reorganized decision rights, incentives systems, information flows, hiring systems, and other aspects of organizational capital to get the…

— Erik Brynjolfsson

“A fundamental insight of modern economics is that the key to the creation of wealth is a division of labor, in which specialists learn…

— Steven Pinker

Specialization and organization are the basis of human progress.

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“Needless to say, this idea that the origin of prosperity is hard work and frugality was exhaustively formulated by Adam Smith in The Wealth…

— Axel Kaiser

“The ideas in each—from profit-sharing with employees to new approaches to job training, from reform of the financial system to promote long-term time horizons…

— E.J. Dionne Jr

Employers who recognize the importance of investing in their workforce have a more productive workforce, a more efficient workforce, a more loyal workforce, less…

— Valerie Jarrett

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose. There's no evidence that more people with more skills…

— Eric Reguly

There is also hope that even in these days of increasing specialization there is a unity in the human experience.

— Allan McLeod Cormack

“Most people learn their trade – almost always farming – from their parents or village communities. Industrialization changed all that. People had to be…

— Robert Lane Greene