Quotes About Industry

Companies that are made up of clusters of leaders will actually accelerate their growth by speeding up their rate of innovation as their competition pulls back, build better teams by investing in people while their rivals shrink training budgets, and pick up top talent as their industry peers lay people off. And so fast companies get that unsettling times are actually gifts for them and periods to get so far ahead of the competition that they can never catch up.

Este es el secreto que los titanes de la industria, los máximos representantes del arte y los mayores triunfadores de la humanidad nunca compartirán con vosotros: el éxito colosal no depende tanto de la genética heredada como de los hábitos diarios. Y el ritual de la mañana es, con diferencia, el más importante que debéis calibrar. Y automatizar.

The sad thing is that when movies like this fail, executives think that proves there's no audience for unusual, original pictures - because they think they've made one.

Raping a planet involves considerable expense. Enormous blasters and slicers and sluicers and refiners are required to reduce a world back almost to a state of primal chaos, and then to extract from it its essential (i.e., commercially viable) ingredients. The history books may tell you of strip-mining on the mother planet, back in ancient times. Well, the crude processes employed then were similar in emphasis and results, but the operations were considerably smaller in size.

People sleeping on pavements gives industry a bad name. My friend was saying last week—he's the director of a multinational, mind you, not some small, two-paisa business—he was saying that at least two hundred million people are surplus to requirements, they should be eliminated.

We have left behind the rosy agrarian rhetoric and slaveholding reality of Jeffersonian democracy and reside in the bustling world of trade, industry, stock markets, and banks that Hamilton envisioned. (Hamilton's staunch abolitionism formed an integral feature of this economic vision.)

Already so flush that he had invested in his first railroad stock, with cash to spare for the firm, Rockefeller was far more receptive.

The clandestine payoffs made by Standard Oil were a different matter, and Rockefeller never stinted in making payments to get the job done.

This relentless price war forced Tidewater to operate at half capacity.

He said that he felt that the time had about come when the companies should work together with a view of preventing other companies from engaging in the business

Standard Oil of New York also made large loans to banks, brokerage houses, railroads, and steel companies.

In other words, the Sherman Antitrust Act wouldn't be used against U.S. Steel.

Goldman, Sachs specialized in commercial paper, Lehman in commodity trading.

Rockefeller's overwhelming influence on the oil industry stemmed from the conflict between his overmastering need for order and the turbulent, unruly nature of the infant industry.

Between February 17 and March 28, 1872—between the first rumors of the SIC and the time it was scuttled—Rockefeller swallowed up twenty-two of his twenty-six Cleveland competitors. During

Mr. Rockefeller may have made himself the richest man in the world, but he has paid.

National City became known as the oil bank, much as J. P. Morgan and Company would be called the steel bank.

Rockefeller also favored Archbold because he was wedded to Standard Oil business, whereas Rogers was often distracted by other interests.

Regulation did not inevitably harm business but could also aid it.

Searching for oil was wildly unpredictable, whereas refining seemed safe and methodical by comparison.

Before too long, he realized that refining was the critical point where he could exert maximum leverage over the industry.

What a blessing the oil has been to mankind!

For Archbold, it was the Russians' failure to consolidate their domestic industry—that is, to suppress competition and establish a trust—that consigned them to secondary status.

If there had been as prompt and energetic action on the part of the Russian oil industry as was taken by the Standard Oil Company, the Russians would have dominated many of the world's markets