Quotes About Industry

With virtuosic brilliance, Rockefeller and Flagler played these three railroads against each other in seemingly endless permutations.

the three increasingly clash as they sell competing services.

I find I already thirst for knowledge about the business.

It came about not because bankers were strong but because companies were still weak.

Perhaps no other American industry had such an export outlook from its inception.

Practically not a barrel of oil could get to a railroad without [Rockefeller's] consent.

From an engineering standpoint, Pierpont knew little about railroads.

Carnegie had seriously misjudged developments in the ore business.

Standard merely had to dump oil at cost to stamp out competitors.

We realized that public sentiment would be against us if we actually refined all the oil.

There were button makers, and hat makers, and glove makers, and turpentine farmers, and laborers, and locomotive engineers, and silk spinners, and tin mill workers.

XEROX AND WURLITZER HAVE ANNOUNCED THEY WILL MERGE TO MARKET REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS

Now there is a society where the funeral industry got completely out of control.

What makes for the good society is a sound economy. Without it, all the rest falls apart.

Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill out, and needs but wings to fly, and commerce is its wings.

The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor.

The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Despite all our amazing ability, ingenuity, technology and industry humans are the one species who have not mastered the art of simplicity.

There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world.

An effective leader develops the ability to correctly identify the pertinent detail or details - incidentals in a market, industry or sport that might create an incremental advantage.

I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.

One has to realize that the powerful industrial groups concerned in the manufacture of arms are doing their best in all countries to prevent the peaceful settlement of international disputes

In my opinion, the present symptoms of decadence are explained by the fact that the development of industry and machinery has made the struggle for existence very much more severe, greatly to the detriment of the free development of the individual.