Outsourcing Quotes

• The other part of outsourcing is this: it simply says where the work can be done outside better than it can be done inside, we should do it.

  Alphonso Jackson

  Done, Should, Secretary

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• The important thing about outsourcing or global sourcing is that it becomes a very powerful tool to leverage talent, improve productivity and reduce work cycles.

  Azim Premji

  Powerful, Important, Tools

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• If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Inspiring, Business, Competitors

  "Rage against off-shoring is very real" by David Kirkpatrick, www.cnn.com. February 23, 2004.

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• If you rely too much on the people in other countries and other companies, in a sense that's your brain and you are outsourcing your brain.

  Bill Gates

  Country, People, Brain

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• Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation.

  Larry Elder

  Jobs, Unemployment, Cost

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• In the long run, outsourcing is another form of trade that benefits the U.S. economy by giving us cheaper ways to do things.

  Janet Yellen

  Running, Giving, Long

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• No outsourcing the "soul" of the company - let's all agree to that. But most companies are more body than soul.

  Steven Pearlstein

  Soul, Agree

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Outsourcing isn't the answer to everything. Lots of internet marketing pundits will tell you to outsource, outsource, outsource. Having a trusted team that knows each other and enjoys working together is good, too.

  Ian Lurie

  Team, Marketing, Working Together

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• Outsourcing is a reflection of a bad economic environment domestically. If you fix that, you fix outsourcing. Our primary export is paper money, and that should change if you change the monetary policy.

  Ron Paul

  Reflection, Paper, Environment

  "The Candidates: Rep. Ron Paul". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. October 12, 2007.

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• Outsourcing American jobs will prove to be a plus for the economy in the long run. It's simply a new way of doing international trade.

  Greg Mankiw

  Running, Jobs, Long

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• 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

  Dollars, Remember, Goods

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• Businesses are no longer receiving the cost savings from outsourcing that they once did.

  Gerald Chertavian

  Receiving, Saving, Cost

  "To Jumpstart The Economy, Look To Our Youth" by Gerald Chertavian, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2012.

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• Outsourcing, information technology revolution, the access to India's human resources, India's pool of scientists. It will help American companies to become leaner, meaner, more efficient, and they become more competitive, both in the United States and in dealing with the rest of the world.

  Manmohan Singh

  Technology, India, United States

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• The politics around trade has always been tough, particularly in the Democratic party, because people have memories of outsourcing and job loss.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Memories, Party

  Barack Obama's remarks during Joint Press Conference with Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi in East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. April 17, 2015.

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• I will support legislation that benefits the American worker and prevents the outsourcing of American jobs.

  Ed Pastor

  Jobs, Support, Benefits

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• If we look to the future, when we talk about outsourcing jobs, when we talk about global competitiveness and our efficiency, none of that matters very much unless we have appropriate training and education for our young people today who are the workforce of tomorrow. It is an economic reality, and we are failing.

  Bill Frist

  Jobs, Reality, People

  Bill Frist (2006). “Bill Frist: A Senator Speaks Out on Ethics, Respect, and Compassion”, p.86, Xulon Press

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• Reliable data on the outsourcing of American jobs is sorely missing from the debate on globalization.

  Dan Lipinski

  Missing You, Jobs, Data

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• It's just a reality of the business model. People are outsourcing a lot more, and China has established a pretty good infrastructure.

  Mario Morales

  Reality, People, Infrastructure

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• The outsourcing gurus have been driving the theory, and they are saying everybody ought always to do this. But it is really contingent on where you are on the spectrum from "not good enough" to "more than good enough," relative to each tier of the market.

  Clayton Christensen

  Not Good Enough, Driving, Guru

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• We think the managed security services opportunity is enormous and so we have been an active participant and probably the largest firm in this space outside of an IBM or EDS, which does large outsourcing contracts.

  John W. Thompson

  Opportunity, Thinking, Space

  "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.

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• The fact is whether one looks at this [outsourcing] in terms of men and women, working men and women in this country who are simply being screwed, or whether one looks at this in terms of corporations who are benefiting, the fact is it is certainly not helping the American economy.

  Lou Dobbs

  Country, Men, Looks

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• India's great economic boom, the arrival of the Internet and outsourcing, have broken the wall between provincial India and the world.

  Aravind Adiga

  Wall, Broken, India

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• How are we going to make our livings in a society becoming increasingly jobless because of hi-tech and outsourcing? Where will we get the imagination to recognize that for most of human history the concept of Jobs didn't even exist? Work, as distinguished from Labor, was done to produce needed goods and services, develop skills and artistry, and nurture cooperation.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Jobs, Work, Skills

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• One of the most widespread myths about the deal is that the Administration is outsourcing the security of our ports to a company from the United Arab Emirates.

  Christopher Bond

  Administration, Port, Myth

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• Outsourcing was the bogeyman of the 90s. Protectionists portrayed it as an evil that would take American jobs away. Yes, some jobs did go offshore as people feared, but it made the global economic pie grow bigger.

  Vivek Wadhwa

  Jobs, Pie, People

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