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Quotes About Industry

One of my assistants, a British man, says I should find a platform for [cosmetic industry]. Meanwhile I wear make-up.
~ Nan Goldin
I think the pop industry is still a young man's game.
~ Paul McCartney
Man makes machines to man the machines that make the machines.
~ Pete Townshend
My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
~ PJ Harvey
A publisher is simply a useful middle-man.
~ Oscar Wilde
The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.
~ Ralph Chaplin
Labor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth because they take away a man's independence.
~ Henry Ford
Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance of toil, and they abandon the slothful.
~ John Milton
My brother's a grip. My mom's a scriptwriter. My dad's a director. So it's like, at heart, I'm a below-the-line girl.
~ Kristen Stewart
We have no mom-and-pop oil rigs in Norway.
~ Erik Naggum
Fashion is not art. Fashion isnt even culture. Fashion is advertising, and advertising is money. And for every dollar you earn, someone has to pay.
~ Gia Carangi
The studios will go wherever they smell money. It's like sharks to the blood.
~ Don Bluth
It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc.
~ Roger Maris
Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
~ Carine Roitfeld
An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
~ Marilyn Monroe
The present fashion system is too hard - there are too many collections. The designers have no time to think! Money is too important. Schedules are too crazy.
~ Azzedine Alaia
I mean it's the most objective industry in the world. If your numbers stink, you're out. If your numbers are good, you get more money. It's the most Darwinian, it's beautiful, it's brutal, it works.
~ Jim Cramer
The motivation to me is to make money and not be dependent upon the shallow pool called the entertainment world or the rap world or the hip-hop world.
~ Killer Mike
I hate the industry even more now, no bands get nurtured anymore. Labels only spend money promoting acts they know will be Top Ten. I find it offensive spending $2 million on a video.
~ Siouxsie Sioux
Enthusiasm for conservation can be fashioned into a nasty weapon for those who dislike business on general principles.
~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.
~ Iris Dement
In the fashion industry, everything goes retro except the prices.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
What makes the most money for this business? Dead rock stars.
~ Courtney Love
It is interesting that the investment industry has invented new ways to lose money when the old ways seemed to work just fine.
~ John G. Stumpf