Quotes About Industry

The holiest war is the one which is fought against the war industry!

From the early 1900s coffee, a drink for every day, became a commonplace and Japanese beverage. The expansion of the world's coffee industries, I will argue, was in its early days closely related to the rise of coffee drinking in Japan. Japanese coffee workers in Brazil, in concert with the aspirations of the Brazilian coffee industries, made Japan a world-beating destination for beans and taste.

The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.

I've never done a teen movie before, but I certainly could tell you some of the ones I came very close on. I was very close on Clueless and She's All That.

As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business.

The future of Big Science appears to depend on industry, whose R&D priorities are very different from those of universities, research foundations, and government.

today, the Danes are the world's leading pork butchers, slaughtering more than twenty-eight million pigs a year. The Danish pork industry accounts for around a fifth of all the world's pork exports, half of domestic agricultural exports, and more than 5 percent of the country's total exports. Yet the weird thing is, you can travel the length and breadth of the country and never see a single sow because they are all kept hidden from view in intensive rearing sheds.

January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.

Many strategy errors emanate from mistaking the relevant industry, defining it too broadly or too narrowly p.37

Competitive forces = the underlying drivers of profitability P.25

High rivalry limits the profitability of an industry P.32

Good industry analysis looks rigorously at the structural underpinnings of profitability P.29

One of the essential tasks in industry analysis is to distinguish temporary or cyclical changes from structural changes. P.29

The point of industry analysis is not to declare the industry attractive or unattractive but to understand the underpinnings of competition and the root causes of profitability. P.29

Good industry analysis does not just list pluses and minuses but sees an industry in overall, systemic terms. P.29

Strategy can be viewed as building defenses against the competitive forces or finding a position in the industry where the forces are weakest. P.35

Without an industry leader, practices desirable for the industry as a whole go unenforced. P.32

The only way to truly reform health care is to reform the nature of competition itself.

Complements can be important when they affect the overall demand for an industry's product. However, like government policy, complements are not a sixth force determining industry profitability since the presence of strong complements is not necessarily bad (or good) for industry profitability. Complements affect profitability through the way they influence the five forces.

It is the "threat of entry", not whether "entry" actually occurs, that holds down profitability. p.26

Rivalry is especially destructive to profitability if it gravitates solely to price because price competition transfers profits directly from an industry to its customers. P.32

The beauty industry does nothing but proclaim that women are never good enough and must always be changing their image. Why? Because that's how the owners of the beauty industry make higher profits. They don't care about women. They care about profit. They're delighted to make women neurotic and depressed about their appearance if it generates more dollars for their own bank accounts. What kind of morality is that? What kind of society is that? What kind of beauty is that?

The poultry industry commonly injects chicken carcasses with salt water to artificially inflate their weight, yet they can still be labelled "100 percent natural." Consumer Reports found that some supermarket chickens were pumped so full of salt that they registered a whopping 840 mg of sodium per serving—that could mean more than a full day's worth of sodium in just one chicken breast.

In a meat industry trade publication, an Alabama poultry science professor explained why we don't have such a "heavy-handed" policy: "The American consumer is not going to pay that much. It's as simple as that." If the industry had to pay to make it safer, the price would go up. "The fact," he said, "is that it's too expensive not to sell salmonella-positive chicken."99