A Quote by John Maurice Clark

Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.

John Maurice Clark

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Diminishing Diminishing Returns Instrument Knowledge Only Production Returns Subject

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John Maurice Clark
American - Economist
November 30, 1884 - June 27, 1963

It is quite plausible that the process of increased fragmentation of production across borders is subject to 'diminishing returns' and has its natural limits.

Jerome Powell

Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns.

Thomas Sowell

I don't want to repeat myself. I hate the idea of coasting and of recycling the same ideas. Then, you're just subject to the law of diminishing returns.

Neil Cross

Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral.

Thomas Sowell

Bitumen is junk energy. A joule, or unit of energy, invested in extracting and processing bitumen returns only four to six joules in the form of crude oil. In contrast, conventional oil production in North America returns about 15 joules. Because almost all of the input energy in tar sands production comes from fossil fuels, the process generates significantly more carbon dioxide than conventional oil production.

Thomas Homer-Dixon

Many kids, particularly in lower-income families, would actually benefit from more structured activities. Plenty of children, especially teenagers, thrive on a busy schedule. But just as other trappings of modern childhood, from homework to technology, are subject to the law of diminishing returns, there is a danger of overscheduling the young.

Carl Honore

I do think that the more takes you have the more opportunity to experiment [but] at a certain point, there are diminishing returns. There's only so much variety you offer.

Julia Stiles

Participant (Productions) is the only production company in town that has a double bottom line: social good plus financial returns. It's too early to tell how our returns are going to look - though all signs are promising - but social good is what we're really after.

Jeffrey Skoll

The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in.

Thomas Keller

I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.

Ben Harper

Whenever you compete, trying harder is truly the game of diminishing returns and a losing one at that

Jan Garavaglia

The individual produces an object and, by consuming it, returns to himself, but returns as a productive and self reproducing individual. Consumption thus appears as a moment of production.

Karl Marx

There are times when you are growing through experiences, but sometimes there is a point of diminishing returns in terms of growth.

Lewis Hamilton

An object of art creates a public capable of finding pleasure in its beauty. Production, therefore, not only produces an object for the subject, but also a subject for the object.

Karl Marx

The Law of Diminishing Returns is true of everything in life, except sex, which seems endlessly repeatable with effect.