Quotes About Industry

the air was thick with coal dust. Was it possible that men breathed this all day? That must be why miners coughed and spat constantly.

The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death.

One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry and energy to expend on hating. They build it up like coral insects.

The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.

Because the financial power of the fossil-fuel industry is so great it can, and has, delayed any real action of the climate issues almost everywhere.

Nuclear power is here to stay, and we need to support a strong domestic uranium industry.

I think China is set up to surpass the US on the even more critical industry of green power.

Ive spent over 25 years in the television industry, the direct response industry. I met a lot of people and certainly learned the power of commercials and their brand building potential.

Everybody says, TV is great, the writer has so much power. I'm still trying to convince myself that's true. When do the writers ever have power? Ever? They don't. Even in the book industry.

The main obstacle is the entrenched power of the legacy polluters.

It really should be a criminal offense for an electrician to mount a breaker box on a bedroom wall. Unfortunately, I see the solar industry mounting inverters on bedroom walls also!

The corporate government is heavily influenced by the utility company cartel.

There is a lot of willful incompetence in solar industry that is in the process of coming to light.

My number one goal ... is to preserve the music industry. The only answer is the Internet. ...none of the systems are more effective than having a personal relationship with my fans via the Internet.

Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.

All the ingredients were there: mechanization, innovation, property rights, and capital.

In 1894 Alexander Graham Bell's telephone patents expired. Within a few years, over 6,000 local telephone companies were competing for the U.S. market.

Boulton's strategic plan was on schedule. He had discerned an opportunity; had exploited it;* and was soon enough unsatisfied by it. By the end of 1782, he had identified the next conquest for the steam engine, an arena whose potential dwarfed that of the mining industry: wheels.

IT IS NO ACCIDENT that "wheels of industry" is such a cliché description of a manufacturing economy, since the application of force in the form of rotational motion is by far the most important component of useful work. In late eighteenth-century Britain, the wheels that mattered most were the ones turning the mills that ground the nation's grain, and the ones that spun the nation's cloth. Most of them used water; some used wind. None used steam.

Experience is by industry achieved, and perfected by the swift course of time

How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care, Their bones with industry.

I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.

The most important lesson here is that what is tolerable risk for a company may well be intolerable for a nation. This is particularly true in banking. There is no real economy if the financial economy fails. As elaborated by Posner, "The risk to the nation is not the bankruptcy of a single major bank but the collapse of the banking industry, precipitating a financial crisis that can bring on a depression." The

It's a miserable life in Hollywood. You're up at five or six o'clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine.