Quotes About Industry

I never want to make screw-you money like the rest of the financial services industry.

The difference between companies that make $100, 000 vs those that make $1bn dollars within the same industry is paying attention to detail.

My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors.

Nobody wants to hear R&ampB. It's sad. If you want to be on the radio you got to stay young.

You know what? I never really factor Hollywood into anything. I'm a black actor, so I can't really control what Hollywood thinks. I gotta go do my thing, and my jokes have got to be funny. Whatever I do has got to be great.

Ford convinced the American public to believe in gasoline cars. And then Ford became Ford, and America became America.

the U.S. was the worst-governed country in the world," that Roosevelt wanted war "at the instigation of the Jews, who controlled industry and the press," and that England was "a paper tiger with its little fleet and meager air force.

It's common in the software industry to blame the users. It's the user's fault. They don't know how to use it. They're using it wrong. They need to do this or do that. But the reality is that specific designs encourage specific behaviors. If the design leads to stress, it's a bad design.

McQueen says he was heavily influenced by the book The Experience Economy, by B. Joseph Pine and James H. Gilmore, whose thesis is that we've moved from being an agrarian economy to one based on industry and now to an experience economy, in which our lives are filled with memorable, branded experiences.

We had to figure out a way to come up with big innovations, embrace change, and invent new services and products that would differentiate us from our competition and would let us grow faster than our industry. We were waiting for big ideas instead of using a system to innovate.

That an entire industry could float in a mist of illusion and false confidence is depressing but true, and better to learn earlier than later.

The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies.

Awards were made in Hollywood, in whatever the time it was created. They're to promote each other's movies. You give me an award, I give you an award and people will believe that we are great movies and they'll go to see them. It's still the same.

Companies with new technologies are free to disrupt almost any industry they choose—journalism, television, music, manufacturing—so long as they don't disrupt the financial operating system churning beneath it all. Hell

The true standard of the arts is in every man's power; and an easy observation of the most common, sometimes of the meanest things in nature, will give the truest lights, where the greatest sagacity and industry, that slights such observation, must leave us in the dark, or, what is worse, amuse and mislead us by false lights.

A poet can do much more for his country than the proprietor of a nail factory.

A poet," he liked to say, "can do much more for his country than the proprietor of a nail factory.

Agriculture is the foundation of manufactures;

In the productions of the mind, as in those of the soil, the gifts of nature are excelled by industry and skill:

Fire is the most powerful agent of life and death: the rapid mischief may be kindled and propagated by the industry or negligence of mankind;

Movies are an expensive business.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

Nothing could better justify the colonizer's privileged position than industry, and nothing could better justify tge colonised 's destitution than his laziness. The mythical potrait of the colonized therefore includes an unbelievable laziness, and that of the colonizer suggests that employing the colonized is not very profitable, thereby authorizing his reasonable wages.

There is value in any experience that reminds us of our dependency on the soil-plant-animal-man food chain [...] Civilization has so cluttered this elemental man-earth relation with gadgets and middlemen that awareness of it is growing dim. We fancy that industry supports us, forgetting what supports industry. Time was when education moved toward soil, not away from it.