Quotes About Industry

Indeed Republicans were the progressive party, comfortable with the application of federal power in behalf of major national goals: protecting the voting rights of blacks, curbing antitrust abuses, bolstering domestic industry through intrusive

Anti psychotics—a class of drugs previously seen as extremely problematic in kind, useful only in severely ill patients—were the top revenue-producing class of drugs in 2008, ahead even of the cholesterol-lowering agents.12 Total sales of all psychotropic drugs in 2008 topped $40 billion.

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Good, according to Stella, with the books. He was well-read. He hand-sold, getting to know patrons and recommending books they might like. He's a throwback, said Stella. A real bookseller, in an industry that had stopped caring about story and only cared about numbers.

The turkeys I eat are raised on farms. They're different. They've signed on the dotted line.

It's an industry of lonely people in a crowd, Bill Margold was saying. 'They're scared to get close to each other. You're far better off having someone to sleep next to then having someone to sleep with because you have to trust someone you sleep next to.

When Mr. March lost his property in trying to help an unfortunate friend, the two oldest girls begged to be allowed to do something toward their own support, at least. Believing that they could not begin too early to cultivate energy, industry, and independence, their parents consented, and both fell to work with the hearty good-will which in spite of all obstacles, is sure to succeed at last.

In December 1896, a humbled Carnegie at last consented to a sweeping deal.

Rockefeller cited the years 1869 and 1870 as the start of his campaign to replace competition with cooperation in the industry.

Luckily for Rockefeller, the lightbulb didn't instantly drive out kerosene: It took time for Edison to cover the country with power stations, and by 1885 only 250,000 lightbulbs shone across America.

To devise a comprehensive solution for the industry, Rockefeller again needed money: money to create economies of scale, money to build cash reserves to endure downturns, money to heighten efficiency.

What Rockefeller had accomplished in oil a generation earlier was now being imitated in steel, copper, rubber, tobacco, leather, and other products

if they refrained from rate-cutting and cutthroat competition, the financiers would stop underwriting competing railways.

In 1886, Standard Oil set up the Natural Gas Trust, with Rockefeller as its largest shareholder.

Thus, Rockefeller and other industrial captains conspired to kill competitive capitalism in favor of a new monopoly capitalism.

With sky-high profits and ridiculously low start-up costs, the field had soon grown overcrowded.

It was in the last-minute effort to halt Tidewater that Standard Oil first resorted to the wholesale bribery of state legislators.

To avert overbuilding and internecine price wars, Morgan decided to spearhead a new steel consolidation.

In exchange for this extraordinary concession, Rockefeller and Flagler didn't simply try to squeeze the railroads—they were much too shrewd and subtle for that—but offered compelling incentives.

Reasonably generous in wages, salaries, and pensions, he paid somewhat above the industry average.

For all his success in bottling up pipeline bills, Rockefeller couldn't scotch the Tidewater.

John labored tirelessly to win control of Pioneer Oil Works and, instead of snuffing it out, favored its discreet absorption by Standard Oil.

I had planned to write the great American novel, having the Standard Oil Company as a backbone!

Pierpont feared a replication of the railroad chaos, with overbuilding and price wars.