Quotes About Industry

A rising call for creative new solutions. Just look at a broad swath of industries that matter fundamentally to who we are: health care

In a study of business launches in 108 companies, we found that 86% of those new ventures were line extensions—incremental improvements to existing industry offerings—and a mere 14% were aimed at creating new markets or industries.

North America Industry Classification Standard (NAICS)

Standard Industrial Classification (SIC)

What a blue ocean strategist recognizes, and what most of us all too often forget, is that while industry conditions exist, individual firms created them. And just as individual firms created them, individual firms can shape them too

Moreover, when you ask existing customers, "How can we make you happier?" their insights tend toward the familiar, such as "Offer me more for less." But this focus almost always drives you to merely offer better solutions to your industry's existing problem, keeping you trapped in the red ocean.

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.

I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.

I've actually spent a lot of time researching beauty products, how they are produced and how they are sold.

The new antipsychotics are now a multibillion-dollar industry in this country, and by 2011 they had surpassed statins—cholesterol-lowering agents such as Lipitor and Zocor—as the best-selling category of drugs in the United States, a truly mind-boggling fact when one considers how rare psychosis is in the population.

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If you want to stay relevant, you're going to have to dive into the domain of the business you're in

Set your sights higher. Don't think of yourself as a programmer at a specific company—after all, it's not likely that you'll be at the same place forever—but as a participating member of an industry. You are a craftsperson or an artist. You have something to share beyond the expense-reporting application you're developing for your human resources department or the bugs you've got stacked up in your company's issue-tracking system.

You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money.

It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but because Joe had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, that I worked with tolerable zeal against the grain.

use—to live by his own industry in England, rather than on the industry of the overladen people of France.

No Delicacy XIV. The Honest Tradesman XV. Knitting XVI. Still

The peoples of civilization see their wretchedness increase in direct proportion to the advance of industry.

Every day the eye is subject to a thousand tiny shocks as a thousand industries compete for the eye-kick, the visual hook that will lock the consumer into product for that crucial second where the tiny - or not so tiny - leap of the imagination is made.

What has happened is that to some degree they have taken an attitude where they don't listen to demos of diverse subject matters. They're looking for demos like the record the guy on the left just did.

Here's the thing about movies, all movies end up on television. That's their life. Whether you like it or not, I don't care how much money you spend on it, or how big or broad the film is, or who the actors are in it, eventually it's all coming out of the box.

The development of the food industry for both domestic and export markets relies on a regulatory framework that both protects the consumer and assures fair trading practices in food.

I don't know why tobacco producers are exempt when it comes to listing ingredients, but that's just the way it is (it's all covered within the one word – tar).

That work ethic, instilled in him by his parents, is very much part of the Catalan character: saving the soul through industry, effort, honest labour and giving your all to the job.