Quotes of Industry - somelinesforyou

“ Avarice, the spur of industry. ”

- David Hume

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

- Orson Welles

“ Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left. ”

- John Ray

“ It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art. ”

- Margaret Oliphant

“ Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. ”

- Unknown

“ It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy. ”

- Chubby Checker

“ Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration. ”

- Andrew Carnegie

“ In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization. ”

- John L. Lewis

“ Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born. ”

- John L. Lewis

“ Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business. ”

- Ville Valo

“ Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes. ”

- Miguel de Cervantes

“ GI is perceived to be a neutral supplier throughout the industry. ”

- David Robinson

“ If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. ”

- Sir Joshua Reynolds

“ Life without industry is guilt. Industry without Art is Brutality. ”

- John Ruskin

“ It's taken me a long time to get back into the industry. People were not really open to me working, or being a part of the industry. ”

- David Caruso

“ Radio is not a partner in the industry. I think that the music industry has continued to depend upon radio, but has ended up pandering to a medium that doesn't care. ”

- Don Rose

“ The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this — that we manufacture everything there except men. ”

- John Ruskin

“ The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation. ”

- Dixie Lee Ray

“ Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation. ”

- Unknown

“ Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents. ”

- Karl Marx

“ Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war. ”

- Remy de Gourmont

“ The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against the intrusion of alien doctrines of government. ”

- John L. Lewis

“ The terrorist attacks of September 11th did far more than destroy the World Trade Center, damage the Pentagon, and leave a scar in the heartland of Pennsylvania.The terrorists struck at the heart of business and industry, and no industry was hit harder than the tourism industry, the lifeblood of Nevada. ”

- Kenny Guinn

“ National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word industry is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense. ”

- Peter Weir

“ There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others. ”

- Jean de LaBruyere

“ God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry. ”

- William Wilberforce

“ Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever. ”

- Samuel Smiles

“ Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ There are two things in particular that it failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet ; the other was the fact that the century would end. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. ”

- Abraham Lincoln
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