Quotes About Industry

No eunuch flatters his tyrant more shamefully or seeks by more infamous means to stimulate his jaded appetite, in order to gain some favor, than does the eunuch of industry, the entrepreneur, in order to acquire a few silver coins or to charm the gold from the purse of his dearly beloved neighbor.

también el proletariado, esa clase obrera moderna que sólo puede vivir encontrando trabajo y que sólo encuentra trabajo en la medida en que éste alimenta a incremento el capital. El obrero, obligado a venderse a trozos, es una mercancía como otra cualquiera, sujeta, por tanto, a todos los cambios y modalidades de la concurrencia, a todas las fluctuaciones del mercado.

The less the skill and exertion of strength implied in manual labour, in other words, the more modern industry becomes developed, the more is the labour of men superseded by that of women.

The development of Modern Industry, therefore, cuts from under its feet the very foundation on which the bourgeoisie produces and appropriates products. What the bourgeoisie, therefore, produces, above all, is its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.

As the reader will have recognized in dismay, the analysis of the real, inner connections of the capitalist production process is a very intricate thing

La época de la burguesía se caracteriza y distingue de todas las demás por el constante y agitado desplazamiento de la producción, por la conmoción ininterrumpida de todas las relaciones sociales, por una inquietud y una dinámica incesantes.

laborers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labor increases capital.

The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this -- that we manufacture everything there except men.

A lot of guys try to mingle with me because of who I am. If I encounter a guy with a clean heart, I will go by my instincts. I guess my man won't be from the film industry.

Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.

The true epic of our times is not "Arm's and the Man," but "Tools and the Man"--an infinitely wider kind of epic.

The music has to be affordable. It's the common man that keeps it going, and if you price it out of his realm, it becomes a thing of the elite.

God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.

By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.

The genius of America is production; and a large percentage of our productive enterprises are headed by men who have come up from the worker's bench.

In the industry, I got a lot of attention for Mad Men, because everyone in the industry watches it.

Film is the cheapest part of the movie making process. The expense is the 100-man crew and the financing and everything.

When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.

[ Hollywood] is a patriarchy, headed by men and built for men.

There are women in makeup and hair and wardrobe, but not in camera, not in sound, you know, and not in special effects. It's all men.

Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.

I mean the business is just so rough man, people always think the business is easy, and the business is very rough. This is probably the worst business that you can get in, as far as, business-wise.

Hollywood is weird, man. The child-actor world is the weirdest. But somehow I survived.

You know, the people who do indie film and decide who gets those little budgets? They're mean, man. They're cold and very cool-oriented.