Capacity Utilization Quotes

I'm not crying over surplus capacity... Surplus capacity is good for India. Surplus capacity means we can get more investors, can get more households and promise them 24/7 power.

But clearly an economy that's growing and expanding like this one - and it certainly is doing that with high GDP output, employment numbers strong, capacity utilization strong - that's an environment in which the Fed needs to continually be alert to early signs of inflation.

I was only operating at about 80% of my capacity.

Our biggest cost is not power, or servers, or people. It's lack of utilization. It dominates all other costs.

Shipping has a great oversupply of vessels that came from over-ordering a few years back. We think 2014 may be when it turns around.

In a battery, I strive to maximize electrical potential. When mentoring, I strive to maximize human potential.

In economies with excess productive capacity, targeted investment can yield a double benefit, generating short-run demand and boosting growth and productivity thereafter.

When plugged in, the least elaborate computer can be relied on to work to the fullest extent of its capacity. The greatest mind cannot be relied on for the simplest thing; its variability is its superiority.

Cultivate all your faculties; you must either use them or lose them

Manufacturing capacity is not a rigid level against which one bounces. When you are dealing with a world economy, with a flexibility to employ production facilities other than one's own, then the concept of capacity is vaguer.

We've seen what can be accomplished when we use 50% of our human capacity. If you visualize what 100% can do, you'll join me as an unbridled optimist about America's future.

As far as the country is concerned, we have tremendous potential, but we're not using it.

I strongly believe that for the steel prices to be market-driven, without distortions, we need to substantially increase the production capacity.

More passengers fly in and out of London than any other city in the world. We are well-connected, we have ample capacity, and we are starting from a position of strength. The problem is that we don't use that capacity well.

Today was about our lack of ability to not produce the ability we've got.

Our real focus is going to be what can we do with our existing capacities, what new things can we do, and how much more demand can we fulfil with our existing capacities.

Beyond helping people have a richer social life, Uber's also a model of collaborative commerce and efficiently tackling excess capacity.

The enterprise, by definition, must be capable of producing more or better than all the resources that comprise it.

The financial crisis and the Great Recession left firms with excess capacity, reducing incentives to invest. If businesses expect slower growth to continue, that will also hold down investment.

In our business we don't mind if a price of a ticket goes down; our job is to get as many bums in seats as possible.

When consumers purchase more goods, plants use more of their capacity, men are hired instead of laid off, investment increases, and profits are high. Corporate tax rates must also be cut to increase incentives and the availability of investment capital.

We've got more productive capacity now than we ever have.

I don't understand the theory that nonprofit hospitals that run at forty percent capacity and do not pay taxes should be granted some special privilege. I like level playing fields.

When all the plants in a region are running at full steam, there is simply no way to get more power.

It is a foregone opportunity that we could have a trillion dollars more of income for the United States if we were producing at capacity rather than falling so far short of it.