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Quotes About Outsourcing

We're going to bring our jobs back home. And if companies want to leave Arizona and if they want to leave other states, there's going to be a lot of trouble for them. It's not going to be so easy.
~ Donald Trump
For many of us, our smartphones have become extensions of our brains - we outsource essential cognitive functions, like memory, to them, which means they soak up much more information than we realize.
~ Jenna Wortham
A lot of the economy is indeed being supplied by goods that are produced offshore. And much of the reason for that is societal.
~ Frederick W. Smith
The best software companies in the world are the Indian companies like the Tatas, Infosys, and others.
~ Joe Kaeser
Forty percent of all electronics sold are assembled by Foxconn.
~ Charles Duhigg
It used to be that American and European companies built their products in low-wage countries, separated by great distances from the innovators who developed the products and the markets where they were sold. But companies increasingly find that is an outmoded way of doing business.
~ Joe Kaeser
My generation's parents told their children, 'Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in the middle class.' But these jobs are now being sent overseas. So in order to make it today, you have to do work that's hard to outsource, hard to automate.
~ Daniel H. Pink
Privatization is more efficient and effective in some cases, but not in intelligence.
~ Valerie Plame
The globalists gutted the American working class and created a middle class in Asia.
~ Steve Bannon
Existe un motivo por el cual muchas funciones tradicionales del gobierno, como la recogida de basura, o la administración de las prisiones, han sido subcontratadas cada vez más a empresas privadas, con ánimo de lucro. Estas empresas habitualmente realizan el mismo trabajo a menor coste o con mayor calidad, o ambas cosas a la vez.
~ Thomas Sowell
Outsourcing your autonomy to an attention economy conglomerate—as you do when you mindlessly sign up for whatever new hot service emerges from the Silicon Valley venture capitalist class—is the opposite of freedom, and will likely degrade your individuality
~ Cal newport
Maybe my group being outsourced wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. I've been in software development for virtually my entire career. I'm used to everyone demanding miracles, expecting the impossible, people changing requirements at the last minute, but, after living through this latest nightmare project, I wonder if it might be time for a change…
~ Gene Kim
We can outsource the work but not the responsibility.
~ Gene Kim
If you want something done right, get someone else to do it.
~ Marion Giacomini
Donald Trump outsources his ties to China. He outsourced his furniture to Turkey. I know a company in Ohio that could make that furniture in Archibald, Ohio.
~ Sherrod Brown
There is more money in designing a shoe than in actually making it: Nike, Dell, and Boeing can get paid for just thinking, organizing, and leveraging their know-how and ideas while subcontracted factories in developing countries do the grunt work and engineers in cultured and mathematical states do the noncreative technical grind
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Governments, in short, now increasingly farm out their responsibilities to private firms
~ Tony Judt
Professional activities are dissected into precise assignments and discrete projects and then thrown into a virtual cloud of aspiring workers located anywhere in the world.
~ Klaus Schwab
If at first you don't succeed, pay someone else to do it for you.
~ Author unknown, c. 1990s
Apart from democracy, globalisation and economic liberalism is our 20th century area of commonality with the U.S., the burgeoning numbers of skilled Indian workers in the U.S. and the outsourcing of American jobs to Indians who never even had to leave their desks, makes us feel that the relationship can eventually be a two-way street of equals.
~ Barkha Dutt
And just remember, every dollar we spend on outsourcing is spent on U.S. goods or invested back in the U.S. market. That's accounting.
~ Arthur Laffer
Privatisation splits hospital services into increasingly small packages.
~ Jo Brand
The long fuse leading up to the L.A. riots was the history of housing segregation, outsourcing of manufacturing jobs, and federal stripping of public programs, which is why I was upset that the media conveniently scapegoated Korean merchants as the source of black rage despite the fact that those merchants were barely above destitution.
~ Cathy Park Hong
Everything you learn in school can be outsourced to someone who learned it more cheaply or learned it more recently.
~ James Altucher