Quotes About Industry

It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy.

For the longest time I was afraid I'd have to keep on working at the factories. There was a steel mill and a pottery; if you didn't go to college, you went to work in those places.

We have come to think of art and work as incompatible, or at least independent categories and have for the first time in history created an industry without art.

At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.

it's difficult in Hollywood to be allowed to try anything. It's all a terrible compromise. There is no time for art. All that matters is what they call box office.

I was disillusioned by Hollywood at the time, but now I've come to accept that's just the way things are: it's called show business, not show art.

You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well.

that's where the money is in publishing—people who don't read.

mass production. Instead of making things only when people needed them, like holes in the wall did, Rusty factories had churned out vast quantities of stuff—the whole world in a giant competition to use up resources as quickly as possible.

Farming, mineral extraction, gas and oil production, bulk cargo transport, logging, fishing, infrastructure construction—all the industries that keep the nation going are mostly unacknowledged by the people who depend on them most.

First agriculture, and then industry, changed two fundamental things about the human experience. The accumulation of personal property allowed people to make more and more individualistic choices about their lives, and those choices unavoidably diminished group efforts toward a common good.

Multiply that scenario by one hundred or one thousand books a year. Using permission, Amazon can fundamentally reconfigure the entire book industry, disintermediating and combining every step of the chain until there are only two: the writer and Amazon.

in virtually every industry the most trusted brand is also the most profitable. Frequency led to awareness, awareness to familiarity, and familiarity to trust. And trust, almost without exception, leads to profit.

The book publishing business is also run by people with this affliction. They love their industry, their product, their systems, and the joy it brings them. New technologies and business systems undermine that vision, and publishers often dismiss them because of simple nostalgia. The same thing happened to Kodak and to the big accounting

You have the freedom to change how you spend your day. You can outsource the tasks and find the guts to do emotional labor instead. You can go out on a limb and do what others aren't doing. The most frustrated marketers I know are the ones who take it as a given that because they are in industry x, they have no freedom. And so real estate brokers hustle for listings and do precisely what the other brokers do.

industry the most trusted brand is also the most profitable.

A Nine-Year-Old Kid Can Do Edgecraft While the edges always change, the process never does. Here's how you do it: Find a product or service that's completely unrelated to your industry. Figure out who's winning by being remarkable. Discover which edge they went to. Do that in your own industry.

Shashi Tharoor

India's villages were not self-reliant republics that lived in blissful isolation. They were networked and connected, and it was the destruction of Indian industry that forced people to retreat and focus on farming

Truly, these are among the most exciting days to be called beyond the church's walls, because God is releasing disciples into every industry and occupation.

alone producing over sixty percent more manufactured goods than the whole Confederacy

I sold my life to Capitol Records; it sucks.

Reality television is a scripted hyper-life that employs writers, but won't allow them to call themselves writers or join the union.

In LA, it's the law that you must be engaged in writing a screenplay with your hairdresser, pool boy, personal trainer, life coach, dog walker, or yoga instructor.