Quotes About Industry

How does everybody in Hollywood work? Drake asked. By fits and starts.

threat, as well as a trillion-dollar biotechnology industry that keeps coming up with new ways to scare us.

We live in an incredible age. People like Laney get it, so do some of the general public. But I think they're still in that early phase like the internet in the 1990s. Yes, they know space is an industry now. Sure, they may know of someone who is peripherally involved. But they don't realize how big things are going to get.

Fun fact: the first manmade object in space was a Nazi V2 rocket in 1942. Space historians and people who like to remind you how there would be no private space industry without NASA tend to gloss over how much those goose-stepping assholes contributed to rocket technology.

Cow pastures exist because we need meat, not because of any clever social thinking on the cow's behalf.

a new Party will arise like perhaps the Republican Party of the United States of America Ã¢â'¬â€œ rich, materialist, and secular Ã¢â'¬â€œ whose opinions will turn on tariffs, and who will cause the lobbies to be crowded with the touts of protected industries.

Compaqs, Dells and Novells each of which emerged from practically nothing to become major corporations. What's the common among these companies is that they all instinctively followed the rules for success in a horizontal industry.

Few of the top ten participants in the new horizontal computer industry rose from the ranks of the old vertical computer industry, bearing testimony to the observation that it is truly difficult for a successful industry participant to adapt to a completely different industry structure.

In fact , we might as well say "proprietary", which ,in fact, was the byword of the old computer industry.

On the other hand, when there's a fundamental change in the industry and you don't change your skills, you will lose at both winning companies and losing companies. That is a situation that can truly be classified as a career inflection point.

The biggest single problem since 1980 has been that the publishing industry has been led by the nose by the retail sector. The industry analyzes its strategies as though it were Procter and Gamble. It's Hermès. It's selling to a bunch of effete, educated snobs who read. Not very many people read. Most of them drag their knuckles around and quarrel and make money. We're selling books. It's a tiny little business. It doesn't have to be Walmartized.

Instead of living according to Nature we have begun to destroy it. And what have we got for it? The air is poisoned by the stink of smelting furnaces, the rivers and brooks are tainted by slaughter houses and tanneries, forests are being cut down without a thought

The AFL-CIO is a structure that divides workers' strength by allowing each union to organize in any industry, then bargain on its own, even when workers share a common employer.

I want to be a machine.

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.

I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.

I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.

Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.

I decided to write Westerns because there was a terrific market for Westerns in the '50s. There were a lot of pulp magazines, like 'Dime Western' and '10 Story Western' that were still being published. The better ones paid two cents a word. And I thought, 'I like Westerns.'

There are very few Westerns that have ever made really giant money.

The only language that the Japanese whaling industry understands is economics.

We commend President Obama and his administration for taking this strong action against Iceland and its barbaric whaling industry... and we urge the President to take similar action against Japan and Norway as well!

Whaling was the oil business of its day.