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Quotes About Industry

You get the best people, you build them into the best managers in the industry, and you accept the fact that some of them will be recruited to become CEOs of other companies.
~ James C. Collins
We all know now that the 747 became the flagship jumbo jet of the airline industry, but the decision looks much different from the perspective of the late 1960s. Yet—and this is the key point—Boeing was willing to make the bold move in the face of the risks. As in Boeing's case, the risks do not always come without pain.
~ James C. Collins
we've found that quantitative missions are often less exciting to people throughout the company than, say, democratizing the automobile or becoming the preeminent company in your industry. Just stating, "Our mission is $50 million in revenues in 1995" won't necessarily excite people. If you use a quantitative mission, be sure to tie it to something meaningful to everyone.
~ James C. Collins
the motor industry, because of its countless allied industries, being the core of any capitalist society.
~ James Clavell
There is a lot of uncertainty in this industry, and you can create your own opportunities and take control of that, but that also takes a lot of time.
~ Kiernan Shipka
My cousins and my uncle have been iconic heroes in the industry and I don't think I'm anywhere close to that, but I'm happy that they like my work. They are my elders and it's natural for me to look up to them.
~ Abhay Deol
My grandad was a miner. My father, brother, and uncles all work in industry.
~ Faye Marsay
Sometimes when people talk about me in fashion, I feel - I don't want to say uncomfortable, but I still don't believe that I'm in 'fashion.'
~ Alessandro Michele
Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that's working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.
~ Mark Zuckerberg
While in some ways I lack privilege, in other ways I have a ton of it. I have a lot of resources and power. And when I've been in uncomfortable situations, just as every woman, practically, in this industry has been, I've been a lot luckier and had more help.
~ Mina Kimes
In the early days of my modelling career, I think the industry was uncomfortable with how strikingly different I was.
~ Erin O'Connor
I prefer if friends come over to my office and we talk our heart out over a cup of coffee. I feel that no one talks freely at industry bashes. Everyone has to behave in a certain way, and I think no one is real there. We can't have heart-to-heart conversations, and I start feeling uncomfortable at such dos.
~ Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Publishing can be a cliquish and incestuous business; it is not uncommon for writers from the same agencies and publishers to review each other.
~ Petina Gappah
You have major labels that are willing to take unconventional approaches because the old model is crumbling in front of us.
~ Macklemore
I am lucky that I am surviving in the industry despite the kind of films I have made, which are absolutely unconventional.
~ Shoojit Sircar
Looking unconventional with all my imperfections was my great fear going into the industry.
~ Nicholas Galitzine
With such compelling information, the question is why haven't we been able to do more to prevent the crisis of underage drinking? The answer is: the alcohol industry.
~ Lucille Roybal-Allard
Airlines go in the long run at the competition to reason. For the passenger the competition is good, because each competitor tries to undercut the other one.
~ Niki Lauda
I've always been the underdog, and I've always had to work much harder than the next person just to get a look. But I feel like that's Black people as a whole, to be honest with you. We have to do so much more and work so much harder to get certain kinds of looks within this industry.
~ August Alsina
And I would say that the main thing that I faced as a female in this industry was being underestimated. But being underestimated isn't always a bad thing. It's nice to get out there and blow people's minds when they think you're not gonna be any good.
~ Nita Strauss
I'm an underground mix-tape artist who's had a level of commercial success.
~ Chamillionaire
Ultimately, the issue is not whether you are pro- or anti-sports betting. You begin, from my standpoint, from the premise that it is going to continue to exist, and if it is going to continue to exist, should it be shoved underground, or should it be regulated?
~ Adam Silver
I was an underground artist, but the underground status was successful. Coming from where I came from to see where rap is now, now artists are selling from a million to eight million copies.
~ Rakim
The sad fact is that actual artistic oppression - book banning in its many modern forms - is a matter of course in the entertainment industry, especially when the underlying product is declared politically incorrect or runs contrary to the interests of Hollywood's political altar, the Democratic Party.
~ Andrew Breitbart