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Quotes About Industry

When you're a young actor you ring your agent every evening. It's not like when you're in Hollywood where you do one picture a year. You just hope you get a day on television.
~ Michael Caine
I hope more people will ask diamond companies to continue changing the way they do business in Africa.
~ Djimon Hounsou
Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.
~ Mary Tyler Moore
Humanities education is the worst thing for an industrialist.
~ Andrew Carnegie
The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity still among you.
~ James Larkin
The Nuclear Industry is conducting a war against humanity.
~ Dr. John
I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.
~ Steven Wright
I have an idea for sweatshops: air conditioning! That's simple. 14 year old boys working twelve hour days? "Yeah, but they're comfortable!"
~ Mitch Hedberg
There's more evil in the charts than an Al-Qaeda suggestion box.
~ Bill Bailey
Getting worried there might not be enough talent in America to acommodate all these singing shows.
~ Natasha Leggero
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife.
~ Groucho Marx
Being sued by your own record company, that's even better than receiving a Grammy
~ Neil Young
Older actresses apparently have no sense of humor about being older actresses.
~ Ti West
When you're in Hollywood, you get sort of jaded about what you think the sense of humor of Hollywood is supposed to be, so you can't think outside the box.
~ Diedrich Bader
You can thank Henry Ford for that. He was a warlock, you know.
~ Ian Richards
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.
~ Paul Farmer
Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's enduring powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.
~ E. F. Schumacher
Eminent nutritionists have traded their independence for the food industry's favors.
~ Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal
Instead of idleness, vanity, or an intellect formed by the spoon-feeding of others, my girls have acquired energy, industry, and independence.
~ Geraldine Brooks
Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who is going to build.
~ Larry Ellison
Those that believe this is merely a downturn are mad. Our industry is going to mature and as something matures, the rate of innovation does slow.
~ Larry Ellison
I had dreams of starting a company like Burmah Shell.
~ Dhirubhai Ambani
Give me a highly successful unionized industry.
~ Jack Welch
GE's businesses turned in a terrific first quarter. Our products and services are being well received in unusually robust global markets.
~ Jack Welch