Quotes About Industry

Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.

I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.

after extracting the industry's highest fees—a vertiginous 5 percent of money under management and 44 percent of the profits—the Medallion Fund was said to be up 80 percent.

A sweat-shop displaced the plantation.

I don't really think that there is anyone in the modern pop business who I feel I want to spar with.

By damaging the potential for wildlife tourism in Scotland, the deer and grouse industries could be destroying more employment than they generate.

Campaigners, chefs, and food writers rail against "intensive farming," and the harm it does to us and our world. But the problem is not the adjective. It's the noun.

the guarantee of cheap labor was an effective means of luring new industries into the South; that so long as the ignorant white masses could be kept thinking of the menace of the Negro to Caucasian race purity and political control, they would give little thought to labor organization. It suddenly dawned upon Matthew Fisher that this Black-No-More treatment was more of a menace to white business than to white labor.

I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry.

If American chemical industries are oligopolistic, British, German, French, Italian, indeed European, chemical industries are monopolistic.

either on a competitive or a cartel basis.

The steel cartel is dead; but the cartel idea survives.

The record is plain: the cartel system retarded the development of a domestic synthetic rubber industry, and, in so doing, jeopardized national security.

Chemical products are used in virtually every branch of industry and agriculture and come to the consumer in almost every product he consumes; yet, because they are primarily industrial raw materials which have lost their identity, the average consumer is unaware of them. To him even their names are meaningless.

Washington-based industry lobby group, reported that in 1999 American biotech companies spent more than half of the sector's revenues, $11 billion in total, on research. No other industrial group spends anything near that proportion of total revenues on research, not even the major pharmaceutical companies, which are usually named as the world's biggest R&D spenders.

Instead of idleness, vanity, or an intellect formed by the spoon-feeding of others, my girls have acquired energy, industry, and independence.

The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man, help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces; let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day, bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored, and grant us in the end the gift of sleep.

An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate"; an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation, but will always abundantly repay the labors of industry, and generally satisfy the most extensive desires, if no part of it be suffered to lie in waste by negligence, to be overrun with noxious plants, or laid out for show rather than for use.

Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.

Luck ... taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it, luck goes away.

Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered when others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtures are of no avail.

Only sick music makes money today.

War is the national industry of Prussia.