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Quotes About Industry

Nowadays it seems more and more like the 'business' in 'show business' is underlined, and there are campaigns, and it's all part of getting people in to see the movies.
~ Jeff Bridges
I'm convinced I got signed because of who I am. And it makes me sad.
~ Jeff Buckley
Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently.
~ Jeff Goodell
Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking.
~ Jeff Goodell
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.
~ Jeff Goodell
In Virginia, much of the head-in-the-sand attitude toward climate change can be traced to the political power of the fossil fuel industry, especially Big Coal. Dominion Energy, the state's biggest electric power company, is also one of the biggest coal burners in America.
~ Jeff Goodell
jukeboxes—industry estimates suggest that up to half of all the records sold in the United States in the later 1930s went into commercial music machines—and the early electric speakers were particularly suited to the percussive power of a piano.
~ Elijah Wald
Okay, so why was the plant built in the first place? It was built to produce products. Why can't that be the goal? Jonah said it wasn't. But I don't see why it isn't the goal. We're a manufacturing company. That means we have to manufacture something, doesn't it? Isn't that the whole point, to produce products? Why else are we here?
~ Eliyahu M. Goldratt
We go into the library, that layman's priory, that paper-scented oasis of quiet industry and calm.
~ Elizabeth Berg
Six things are requisite to create a "happy home." Integrity must be the architect, and Tidiness the upholsterer. It must be warmed by Affection, lighted up with Cheerfulness; and Industry must be the ventilator, renewing the atmosphere and bringing in fresh [vitality] day by day; while over all, as a protecting canopy and glory, nothing will suffice except The blessing of God.
~ Elizabeth George
Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.
~ Alfred Nobel
Não se deve esperar da cultura de massas e, menos ainda, da sua versão capitalista de indústria cultural, o que ela não quer dar: lições de liberdade social e estímulos para a cons­trução de um mundo que não esteja atrelado ao dinheiro e ao status.
~ Alfredo Bosi
We got on his label, and the Bizarre organization is just going up and up. So we have faith.
~ Alice Cooper
Não causa espanto que Marte seja o Deus da guerra e dos conflitos, assim como do progresso e da indústria. Ele destrói, reconstrói e volta a destruir. 'A guerra é o grande acelerador.
~ Alice O. Howell
the engineer, and of his fireman turning
~ Alistair MacLean
Diagnostic inflation has led to an explosive growth in the use of psychotropic drugs; this then produced huge profits that have given the pharmaceutical industry the means and the motive to blow up the diagnostic bubble into an ever-expanding balloon.
~ Allen Frances
Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.
~ Ally Sheedy
Unfortunately, the food industry has not yet faced this situation and begun taking measures to avoid exploiting our weakness for not knowing when we have had enough.
~ Marvin Harris
I think publishing's strength is also its weakness. It's got such a rich and celebrated history as an industry. For the most part, publishing people are incredibly creative, business is done based on the strength of relationships, and the product being peddled is books.
~ Jennifer Gilmore
We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody.
~ William Weld
There's accountability in the mutual fund industry. And they've been tremendous engines of wealth for people and they're going to continue to be so.
~ Jim Cramer
I'm someone who believes that making things creates wealth.
~ Rick Santorum
Federal policy should not block those who are prepared to risk their own wealth to create an enormous energy export industry here in America.
~ Mike Pompeo
What is a permanent loan but a mortgage upon the wealth and industry of the country? It is the only form of indebtedness, as experience has shown, by which heavy and durable encumbrance can be laid upon the community.
~ John C. Calhoun