Quotes About Industry

Industry was subordinated to the conscious social goal. Science, formerly the slave of industry, became the free colleague of wisdom.

Crookes was talking about fixing a couple of million tonnes of nitrogen a year to assure Europe's wheat supplies for the foreseeable future. Today industry fixes over a hundred million tonnes a year, comfortably more than all the Earth's nitrogen-fixing soil bacteria put together.

The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.

Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. I've never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I've always had a personal relationship with someone in the company.

I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and I'd be left with the record company. And then - because they got fired - the record company wouldn't do anything for me.

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.

I think that anyone who eats meat should visit a slaughterhouse at least once in their life, just to see what goes on. It's a bloody, filthy, putrid f**king business.

The music business is like any other business, y'know? When sales are going well, everything's hunky-f**king-dory. But the second something goes wrong, it's all blood and law-suits.

Network-based businesses tend to create natural monopolies and oligopolies.

Besides fixed assets, an industrial company needs to manage working capital efficiently.

No one goes around suggesting that everyone should become their own autonomous cheesemakers and cheering the death of the cheese industry. Why? Because that would result in a lot of shitty cheese.

The opioid crisis is, among other things, a parable about the awesome capability of private industry to subvert public institutions.

Roche offered a different interpretation: while it might be true that some patients appeared to be abusing Librium and Valium, these were people who were using the drug in a nontherapeutic manner. Some individuals just have addictive personalities and are prone to abuse any substance you make available to them. This attitude was typical in the pharmaceutical industry: it's not the drugs that are bad; it's the people who abuse them.

He worried about what he described as "an unwholesome entanglement" between the people who prescribe our medicines and the people who make and market them.

Pfizer had a tranquilizer that it recommended for use by children with an illustration of a young girl with a tearstained face and a suggestion that the drug could alleviate fears of "school, the dark, separation, dental visits, 'monsters.'" But once Roche and Arthur Sackler unleashed Librium and Valium, no other company could compete.

Within four years of the launch celebration at the Wigwam in Arizona, OxyContin hit $1 billion in sales, surpassing the quintessential blockbuster drug of that era, Viagra.

opioid crisis is, among other things, a parable about the awesome capability of private industry to subvert public institutions.

Because the dietary supplement industry is essentially unregulated, only 170 (0.3 percent) of the 54,000 products on the market have documented safety tests.

The concept of multivitamins was sold to Americans by an eager nutraceutical industry to generate profits. There was never any scientific data supporting their usage.

It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.

Reporters rely on what people tell them. A woman claims she was the lover of a president. The story is accurate, because she said it, but where's the truth? A spokesman for the tobacco industry claims there's no proven link between smoking and lung cancer. Religious fanatics ignore all science and maintain that the Earth is only six thousand years old. So rule number one, the news is filled with accurate lies.

in the gun industry, all publicity is good publicity, and high-profile enmity from anti-gun forces is the best publicity of all.

A significant proportion of the work of the Reclamation and Reconstruction Corps had been concerned with replacement of topsoil lost by erosion caused by overfarming, or poisoned by industry during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, or stripped away by floods and hyperstorms during the Overturn.

Everything I say is right. "Everything I say is wrong. There are many conflicting opinions in this industry. Don't take one person's word as gospel, including mine. Take what works for you.