Quotes About Production

Quality assurance (QA) refers to planned and systematic production processes that provide confidence in a product's suitability for its intended purpose.

En tant que groupe effectivement soumis à ce rapport de production, elles constituent une classe, en tant que catégorie d'êtres humains destinés par naissance à entrer dans cette classe, elles constituent une caste.

De même, il se fait couramment une confusion entre les femmes d'ouvriers et les ouvrières, appartenance de classe tantôt sur une définition marxiste de la classe - sur leur rapport de production - tantôt en reprenant à son compte la définition des femmes comme propriété et extension du mari.

Ce n'est pas parce que le capitalisme achète et exploite la force de travail du mari qu'il exploite du même coup la femme. C'est absolument faux. Elle est exploitée par son rapport de production [l'exploitation domestique], c'est évident, pas par celui de son mari.

En prétendant que le mariage peut se substituer aux rapports de production dans le système capitaliste comme critère d'appartenance de classe dans ce système, on masque et l'existence d'un autre système de production, et le fait que les rapports de production dans ce système constituent précisément maris et femmes en classes antagoniques (les uns retirant un profit matériel de l'exploitation des autres).

Dans l'immédiat on peut poser que la libération des femmes ne se fera sans la destruction totale du système de production et de reproduction patriarcale.

Seuls les ménages agricoles élèvent des cochons, mais c'est dans tous les ménages que l'on cuit des côtelettes. Par conséquent tous les ménages, et non les seuls ménages agricoles, produisent pour leur propre consommation. C'est donc une somme importante de services et de valeurs que néglige la Comptabilité nationale.

L'abolition des rapports de production capitaliste en soi ne suffit pas à libérer les femmes ; [il faut] se constituer en force politique autonome.

The bottom line is, you cannot be a producer unless you understand that it's all your fault.

It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.

Responding to myth often means wearing blinkers. Myth is a complex game of production and reception that involves selecting some parts of a narrative and suppressing others. As we shall see later on, this process of communication is not always easily controlled.

As an English production it does not rank high. It might get by at Princeton but certainly not at Harvard.

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

Speculation into thing already produced that is not business

That the earth produces, or is capable of producing, enough to give decent sustenance to everyone—not of food alone, but of everything else we need. For everything is produced from the earth.

A department is a little factory unto itself with input and output

We abolished every order blank and every form of statistics that did not directly aid in the production of a car. We had been collecting tons of statistics because they were interesting. But statistics will not construct automobiles—so out they went.

Therefore in 1909 I announced one morning, without any previous warning, that in the future we were going to build only one model, that the model was going to be "Model T," and that the chassis would be exactly the same for all cars, and I remarked: "Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.

The healthy business, the business that is always making more and more opportunities for men to earn an honourable and ample living, is the business in which every man does a day's work of which he is proud. And the country that stands most securely is the country in which men work honestly and do not play tricks with the means of production. We cannot play fast and loose with economic laws, because if we do they handle us in very hard ways.

If we had borrowed we should not have been under the necessity of finding methods to cheapen production.

Material progress does not merely fail to relieve poverty, it actually produces it. This association of progress with poverty is the great enigma of our times. It is the riddle that the sphinx of fate puts to our civilization. And which NOT to answer is to be destroyed.

The amount of wealth produced is nowhere commensurate with the desire for wealth, and desire mounts with every additional opportunity for gratification.

the larger the percentage of the national income taken by taxes the greater the deterrent to private production and employment. When the total tax burden grows beyond a bearable size, the problem of devising taxes that will not discourage and disrupt production becomes insoluble.

private loans will utilize existing resources and capital far better than government loans. Government loans will waste far more capital and resources than private loans. Government loans, in short, as compared with private loans, will reduce production, not increase it.