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Quotes About Industry

While waiting for my visa, I got a job in the music industry, which was so exciting, it changed my life and stopped me moving.
~ Nicki Chapman
We have this revolution that's happening in our lifetime. The Information Revolution is changing absolutely every industry and every part of life and society and behavior.
~ Pete Cashmore
Made by General Motors, on order from Sears Roebuck.
~ Richard Condon
Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.
~ Sally Kirkland
If I looked at every other girl in the entertainment industry as competition, my life would be really lonely. I wouldn't have some of the coolest friends that I'm so glad I've gotten to know.
~ Taylor Swift
You know, what a producer does is one of the great mysteries in life, so anyone can be one.
~ Timothy Olyphant
My life all-around is really different than a lot of other poets. Not poets that are parents, too, but just that I can hardly find anyone who works in the industries that I've worked in.
~ Victoria Chang
I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life - somehow I've never bumped into it.
~ Lisa See
Life as a voice actress is tough. It's not an easy career.
~ Lucille Bliss
My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. (On steel industry executives who increased prices)
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The first thing is that we're being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these groups are trying to diminish the importance and strength of the director. They're trying to do it through both frontal and side attacks.
~ John Frankenheimer
After years of watching their patrimony squandered in this way, a large percentage of the [Niger] Delta's population feels abandoned by both national and local politicians, and has settled on illegal bunkering as the most direct way to ensure that they benefit from their own oil wealth. The trouble is that what started as activism has become an industry. In the words of one activist, 'It is becoming increasingly difficult to separate greed from grievance.
~ John Ghazvinian
One thing that stock investing has in common with real estate is that location is very important. In this case, however, we're referring to where in the stock market your money is located. Being in the right sectors and industry groups can enhance your overall performance. Being in the wrong ones can hurt it.
~ John J. Murphy
The individual serves the industrial system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it by consuming its products.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Joe Barbera's s always complaining that he can't get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You've got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives?
~ John Kricfalusi
The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry.
~ John L. Lewis
How does the industry seek to master the risks? Through mathematics. The common-sense version of what sophisticated investors do is diversification, a technique so old it's mentioned in the Talmud, where the strategy advocated is to have a third of your assets in trade, a third in cash and a third in land.
~ John Lanchester
At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that.
~ John Legend
Music is everybody's business. It's only the publishers who think people own it
~ John Lennon
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
~ John Lennon
We are born to be, if we please, rational creatures, but it is use and exercise only that makes us so, and we are indeed so no farther than industry and application has carried us.
~ John Locke
This shows how much numbers of men are to be preferred to largeness of dominions ; and that the increase of lands, and the right of employing of them, is the great art of government: and that prince, who shall be so wise and godlike, as by established laws of liberty to secure protection and encouragement to the honest industry of mankind, against the oppression of power and narrowness of party, will quickly be too hard for his neighbours: but this by the by. To return to the argument in hand.
~ John Locke
Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.
~ John Lubbock
The power of the negative media around the food industry drives my mind to enact a Woody Allen-ish skit whenever faced with a restaurant menu. For instance, beef translates to "mad cow disease," chicken morphs into "avian flu," fish reconstitutes to "mercury poisoning," and vegetarian option becomes "genetically modified crops." I am unsure what to pick, and moreover who I can trust when my selection is made.
~ John Maeda