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Quotes About Industry

One should not treat investors or a person who has set up an industry and is a successful businessman as criminals in this country. I am fully aware that everybody has a right to succeed, and success should be with ethics.
~ Sharad Pawar
I came to realize that if I was going to succeed in the music industry, I was going to have to learn how to perform my songs myself.
~ Mike Posner
I still think the fashion industry has a long way to go as far as self-awareness in the way it affects the people that it employs and targets. I do feel that there are marketing tactics in fashion that purposely instigate people to feel insecure in order to purchase a product to make themselves "better".
~ Tyra Banks
Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.
~ Tyra Banks
I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous.
~ Tyra Banks
They use everything about the hog except the squeal.
~ Upton Sinclair
If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy.
~ Upton Sinclair
Take a factory, a railway, a ship on the high seas, said Engels: is it not clear that not one of these complex technical establishments, based on the use of machinery and the systematic co-operation of many people, could function without a certain amount of subordination and, consequently, without a certain amount of authority or power?
~ Unknown
Factory windows are always broken.Somebody's always throwing bricks,Somebody's always heaving cinders,Playing ugly Yahoo tricks.
~ Vachel Lindsay
Factory windows are always broken Other windows are let alone. No one throws through the chapel-window The bitter, snarling, derisive stone.
~ Vachel Lindsay
If you think the movie moguls are worried about the possible disastrous effects of TV, you ought to hold the head of a radio exec for a while,
~ Unknown
Although Indianapolis had a bigger automobile industry than Detroit at the end of the nineteenth century, Detroit would soon steal its thunder by welcoming Eastern Europeans and southern blacks as auto plant workers — a step Indianapolis prohibited through commercial zoning restrictions.
~ Unknown
Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
~ Van Morrison
The close nexus between reductionist science, patriarchy, violence, and profits is explicit in 80 percent of scientific research that is devoted to the war industry, and is frankly aimed directly at lethal violence—
~ Vandana Shiva
I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
~ Vera Farmiga
There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal.
~ Vera Wang
I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.
~ Vera Wang
They do a lot of animal testing in the cosmetics industry. Maybe they should brag about it in their commercials: "Aquanet hair spray, if it can blind a Spider Monkey, it can make your hair look luscious." Or "Gillette, because four thousand bald squirrels can't be wrong."
~ Unknown
They want us eating the food they are making in laboratories
~ Unknown
What kind of society turns its young people into a profit center for the debt industry?
~ Vicki Robin
Beauty's easy. Modeling is not just about being pretty.
~ Tyra Banks
I just want to continue to break barriers and to show the industry and the world that beauty is diverse, and you don't have to be a certain stereotype to be beautiful.
~ Joan Smalls
When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
~ Joseph Stalin
The only winner today is big business.
~ Stonewall Jackson