Quotes About Production

The absolute number of workers in agriculture continued to rise until the twentieth century, but agriculture's share of the national workforce fell. By 1900 it had declined to 40 percent, from a majority in 1860. Those workers, however, still produced more than the country could consume.11

We have become food consumers, not food producers or makers. We have outsourced our cooking to corporations.

I wanted us to get out of production. Jake Schmidt, our production shop master, was a good man; nevertheless I was forever being jerked out of a warm creative fog to straighten out bugs in production—which is like being dumped out of a warm bed into ice water. This was the real reason why I had been doing so much nightwork and staying away from the shop in the daytime.

Meanwhile, we might all remember the verdict of Count Bismarck: "Laws are like sausages: you respect them more if you haven't actually seen how they're made.

As Count Bismarck once said, "Laws are like sausages: you have much more respect for them if you haven't actually seen how they're made.

The Burbank Studios in beautiful downtown Burbank.

Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.

And I wrote you. You did? Oh, volumes, he said. Your friend Rumi would have envied my production. Then he laughed again, uproariously this time, as though he was both startled at his own boldness and embarrassed by what he let on.

Above the queen excluder—only honey. Below—honey, pollen, and brood.

We've been paying a fraction of what things really cost to make, but meanwhile the planet, and the workers who made the stuff, take the unpaid costs right in the teeth.

Things are sold for less than it costs to make them. ... lots of business do go bankrupt. The ones that don't haven't actually sold their thing for more than it costs to make. They've just ignored some of their costs. ... they shove some of their production costs off their books.

The picture is perfectly clear: the entire economy is fueled not by profit, not by production, but by debt. Debt, moreover, that no one is working on paying back and that everyone needs to believe—this is the pipe dream that sustains the whole charade—will certainly be paid by future generations.

We need to understand and combat fascism not because so many fell victim to it, not because it stands in the way of the triumph of socialism, not even because it might return again, but primarily because, as a form of reality production that is constantly present and possible under determinate conditions, it can, and does, become our production. The crudest examples of this are to be seen in the male-female relations, which are also relations of production.

From 1952 to 1989, Rocky Flats manufactures more than seventy thousand plutonium triggers, at a cost of nearly $4 million apiece. Each one contains enough breathable particles of plutonium to kill every person on earth.

I was trying to foster a great working relationship between those two departments [design and the writing teams], because classically in animation the two don't get along.

One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.

The removal of the physical constraints on effective information production has made human creativity and the economics of information itself the core structuring facts in the new networked information economy.

In either case, the practical individual freedom to cooperate with others in making things of value was limited by the extent of the capital requirements of production.

there is remarkably little support in economics for regulating information, knowledge, and cultural production through the tools of intellectual property law.

Making stuff - that's easy. Supply chain, now that is hard.

Disconnect your identity from what you produce, and that's a hard thing for us because we think of our significance, worth and value based on what we do instead of who we are.

In 1775 Asia accounted for 80 per cent of the world economy. The combined economies of India and China alone represented two-thirds of global production. In comparison, Europe was an economic dwarf.3

The modern capitalist economy must constantly increase production if it is to survive, like a shark that must swim or suffocate

Cuando los gobiernos y los negocios capitalistas consideran la posibilidad de invertir en un proyecto científico concreto, la primera pregunta suele ser: «¿Nos permitirá este proyecto aumentar la producción y los beneficios? ¿Producirá crecimiento económico?». Un proyecto que no pueda salvar estos obstáculos tiene pocas probabilidades de encontrar un patrocinador.