Quotes About Industry

Back in 1921 Veblen had predicted that engineers would one day rule the U.S. economy. He argued that since the economy was premised on technology and the engineers were the only ones who actually understood how the technology worked, they would inevitably use their superior knowledge to seize power from the financiers and captains of industry who wound up on top at the end of the first round of the Industrial Revolution.

The entire health industry lies about what things cost to make

Ronan, for his part, couldn't quite believe how ordinary the people on Wall Street were. "It's a whole industry of bullshit," he said.

Standing between the cure and the patient, in this case, was a U.S. medical-industrial complex that lurched between lethargy and avarice.

the medical-industrial complex. It wasn't designed for a crisis; if it was designed for anything, it was to maximize the profits of companies that enjoyed monopoly power.

There's a lot of money in the Western diet. The more you process any food, the more profitable it becomes. The healthcare industry makes more money treating chronic diseases (which account for three quarters of the $2 trillion plus we spend each year on health care in this country) than preventing them.

But the western mind can't bear an opt- out option. we're going to have to re-fight the Battle of the Little Bighorn to preserve the right to opt-out, or your grandchildren and mine will have no choice but to eat amalgamated, irradiated, genetically prostituted, bar-coded, adulterated fecal spam from the centralized processing conglomerate. Joel Salatin

Except for the salt and a handful of synthetic food additives, every edible item in the supermarket is a link in a food chain.

Sometimes the large scale organic farmer looks like someone trying to practice industrial agriculture with one hand tied behind his back.

An alternative food system is rising up on the margins," Joel continued. "One day Frank Perdue and Don Tyson are going to wake up and find that their world has changed. It won't happen overnight, but it will happen, just as it did for those Catholic priests who came to church one Sunday morning only to find that, my goodness, there aren't as many people in the pews today. Where in the world has everybody gone?

La falta de una cultura de comida estable nos hace muy vulnerables a las lisonjas de los ingenieros alimentarios y los estrategas del marketing, para quienes el dilema del omnívoro no es tanto un dilema como una oportunidad. La industria alimentaria está muy interesada en exacerbar nuestra ansiedad ante lo que debemos o no comer, para así poder aliviarla después con nuevos productos.

there's a lot of money in the Western diet. The more you process any food, the more profitable it becomes. The healthcare industry makes more money treating chronic diseases (which account for three quarters of the $2 trillion

It is very much in the interest of the food industry to exacerbate our anxieties about what to eat, the better to then assuage them with new products.

Too often, the music business allowed third-party companies to innovate for us - and that simply does not work anymore.

Initially, when I started working in Tollywood, there were only three or four releases in a year. But after 2010-11, the figure went up to three-four releases per month. It's impossible for one music director to work simultaneously in so many films.

It's a sin to have your films not to make money.

There is no demand for Frank Sinatra Jr. records. There never has been.

Frank Sinatra Jr. has never been particularly popular as a record seller.

We entered into the pharmaceutical industry in 1988, and since then, we have grown significantly on the back of a growing demand in India for pharmaceutical products.

I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not talking about actresses; I'm talking about lighting people. Lighting on TV is just so... it's sinful, it really is.

I agree that when you sing for Bollywood, the reach is bigger. But I don't want to concentrate on any industry in particular.

I don't need to do only one thing, you know? Even in the entertainment industry, nobody's 'just a singer.'

When Mohammed Rafi was not an active playback singer, Kishore Kumar dominated the scene and vice-versa.

I started out as a pop singer, then pop died down, and I had to dig my feet into Bollywood which is not something I wanted actually.