Productivity Rate Quotes

In terms of productivity - that is, how much a worker produces in an hour - there's little difference between the U.S., France, and Germany. But since more people work in America, and since they work so many more hours, Americans create more wealth.

My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.

If I can get some time off and still be productive and go 85-90 percent of the plays, that's fine with me.

I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years.

I'm always throwing out ideas, so it's not creativity, it's just volume.

I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours.

Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.

From 1891 to 1972, U. S. productivity grew at an average rate of 2.33 percent, which is high, but then it dropped substantially so that from 1972-1996 it averaged only 1.38 percent. In other words, the Reagan tax cuts and deregulation did not spur productivity growth, even allowing for a long time.

During the 1960s, and again in the 1970s, growth in manufacturing productivity in the United Kingdom was the lowest of all the seven major industrial countries in the world. During the 1980s, our annual rate of growth of output per head in manufacturing has been the highest of all the seven major industrial countries.

I can write a book in probably three months.

As a general principle, the American people would be well served by the active pursuit of effective policies to support longer-run growth in productivity.

The American worker is more productive than he's ever been.

For about twenty years, if I managed to write ten or twelve poems in a year; I considered that a pretty successful year, but I wrote 'The Beforelife' within a year.

Don't equate activity with efficiency.

In 2007, I probably wrote four screenplays in the entire year. Every three months I was writing a screenplay.

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.