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Quotes About Industry

An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.
~ Fred Allen
W]hen one looks at females in nature, one sees industry, progenitiveness and efficiency; when one looks at males, one sees the most elaborate forms of wastefulness.
~ Fred Hapgood
The Disney Approach to Quality Service for the Healthcare Industry.
~ Fred Lee
Our work on light bulbs wasn't an arbitrary mandate. We didn't just pick a standard out of the air, or look for a catchy sounding standard like 25 by 2025 not based in science or feasibility. Instead, we worked with both industry and environmental groups to come up with a standard that made sense and was doable.
~ Fred Upton
I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized.
~ Freeman Dyson
Only sick music makes money these days.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
industry and utility are the angels of death who, with fiery swords, prevent man's return to Paradise.
~ Friedrich Schlegel
Just as Clayton Christensen had predicted in The Innovator's Dilemma, technological innovation caused wrenching pain to the company and the broader industry
~ Brad Stone
Companies that make things and companies that sell them have waged versions of this battle for centuries.
~ Brad Stone
You know, the fact that you were educated in a gun factory kinda shows sometimes
~ Brandon Sanderson
Daring leaders, even in compliance-driven and highly structured industries like banking, healthcare, and the food industry, create and share context and color. They take the time to explain the "why" behind strategies, and how tasks link to ongoing priorities and mission work. Rather than handing down black-and-white mandates stripped of story, they hold themselves responsible for adding texture and meaning to work and tying smaller tasks to the larger purpose.
~ Brene Brown
With all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellow-citizens,—a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.
~ Henry Adams
If we stay at home and mind our business, who will want railroads?
~ Henry David Thoreau
1) he will use the extra profits to expand his operations by buying more machines to make more coats; or (2) he will invest the extra profits in some other industry; or (3) he will spend the extra profits on increasing his own consumption. Whichever of these three courses he takes, he will increase employment.
~ Henry Hazlitt
Even a relatively mild inflation distorts the structure of production. It leads to the overexpansion of some industries at the expense of others. This involves a misapplication and waste of capital. When the inflation collapses, or is brought to a halt, the misdirected capital investment—whether in the form of machines, factories or office buildings—cannot yield an adequate return and loses the greater part of its value.
~ Henry Hazlitt
If, therefore, the X industry is driven out of existence by a minimum wage law, then the workers previously employed in that industry will be forced to turn to alternative courses that seemed less attractive to them in the first place.
~ Henry Hazlitt
The government never lends or gives anything to business that it does not take away from business.
~ Henry Hazlitt
As everyone knows, Cleanliness is the chief American industry.
~ Henry Miller
The means of communication, the irresistible output of the entertainment and information industry carry with them prescribed attitudes and habits, certain intellectual and emotional reactions which bind the consumers to the producers and, through the latter to the whole social system. The products indoctrinate and manipulate; they promote a false consciousness which is immune against its falsehood...Thus emerges a pattern of one-dimensional thought and behavior.
~ Herbert Marcuse
We have believed at CA that consolidation of this industry is something that was required ten years ago.
~ Sanjay Kumar
Over 30 years ago, Airbus was founded by a European consortium of French, German, and later Spanish and British companies to compete in the large commercial aircraft industry with U.S. companies.
~ Norm Dicks
What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That product had a ten year life cycle, which has never been done in this industry.
~ Ian Jackson
But very unfortunately the merchant marine died away till even the majority of fishing done about the Cape is in the hands of the Portuguese who emigrated to the Cape some fifty years ago.
~ Joseph C. Lincoln
There was this whole middle time that only Chris Rock came out of, you know, 10 years ago it was Chris and a few other people, but that's about it. Chris is in a class of his own; I don't see another comedian who I put in high regard as him.
~ Bob Saget