Unproductive Quotes

You cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit. - Daniel Hannan

You can use allocations or strategies that will seem unproductive or even excessively volatile, but when you put them in the context of a larger portfolio, they play a smoothing role. - Tony Werley

Without our Brocade SAN, compliance would be a much more challenging exercise. The scalable solution allows us to easily store data flowing from our trading floor and electronic systems during the day, and then back up this information at night. If we used conventional direct-attach storage systems, warehousing this much information would be too laborious and unproductive. Moreover, thanks to our SAN, we no longer back up data over the production network, which had in the past, diminished bandwidth and slowed delivery of our business applications and resources. - Rich Ward

While the birds still thrive on large, intensively managed quail plantations in north Florida, their numbers have declined in south Florida where changing land-use patterns have altered their preferred habitat. In fact, the landscape has changed so much that extensive tracts of land have become completely unproductive for quail. - Bill Giuliano

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass. - Fran Lebowitz

This is one of the last goodies in real estate. Our typical customer is the mom and pop who maybe inherited land many years ago and want to move unproductive land into income-producing property. We also see the phenomenon of people in their 40s and 50s looking ahead to retirement and looking to sell a property to buy a home in Florida that they can rent and maybe retire to someday. - Kelly Yates

The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support and happiness of our own race. - David Wilmot

The U.S. and Iraq will work together next year to shift Iraqi resources from unproductive subsidies to productive uses that enable Iraqis to earn livelihoods. - Zalmay Khalilzad

The question is, why there on the border, when Indonesia has such huge abandoned, unproductive palm oil plantations or degraded forest areas across the country. - Togu Manurung