Industry Quotes - Page 14

• I probably shouldn't admit this since I work in the tech industry, but I still prefer reading paper books.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Book, Reading, Paper

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• Women have made tons of progress. But we still have a small percentage of the top jobs in any industry, in any nation in the world. I think that's partly because from a very young age, we encourage our boys to lead and we call our girls bossy.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Girl, Jobs, Boys

  "Sheryl Sandberg Tells Oprah About Her ‘Date’ With Mark Zuckerberg, Her Marriage And Feeling Like A Fraud". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 6, 2013.

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• If you look at the big entertainment industry and their pursuit of the bottom line profits in exchange for producing content and distributing that content and marketing that content to inappropriate audiences, that's a problem for me.

  Rick Santorum

  Marketing, Looks, Lines

  "Rick Santorum, 'It Takes a Family'". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. August 4, 2005.

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• Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

  Nathalie Sarraute

  Media, Television, Spheres

  Times Literary Supplement 10 June 1960

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• I think of Google as a set of overlapping things. It's a consumer platform, consumer phenomenon of which search is its fundamental activity, but there are many other things you can do than search... I think of Google as an advertising company who services the broader advertising industry in the ways that you know.

  Eric Schmidt

  Thinking, Google, Fundamentals

  "Google CEO Eric Schmidt Interview: His Thoughts On Search, Books, News, Mobile, Competition And More". Interview with Michael Arrington, techcrunch.com. August 31, 2009.

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• I think to some degree one of the strengths of the high tech industry is that people are actually willing to tell you things. When I went to Novell, I didn't know how to be a CEO, so I went in and I called all sorts of CEOs I knew. I called in a favor. I wanted to come by and listen to them tell me what it's like to be a CEO.

  Eric Schmidt

  Thinking, People, Degrees

  "My other interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt" by Fred Vogelstein, www.wired.com. April 09, 2007.

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• The premium single-cup segment is the fastest-growing business within the global coffee industry.

  Howard Schultz

  Coffee, Cups, Growing

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• Beverages have to be created. And they're created by looking at what trend is in, say, the fashion industry - what color's hot right now.

  Howard Schultz

  Fashion, Color, Trends

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• Starbucks has changed the rules of engagement for the music industry.

  Howard Schultz

  Engagement, Starbucks, Changed

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• When I first discovered in the early 1980s the Italian espresso bars in my trip to Italy, the vision was to re-create that for America - a third place that had not existed before. Starbucks re-created that in America in our own image; a place to go other than home or work. We also created an industry that did not exist: specialty coffee.

  Howard Schultz

  Coffee, Home, Italian

  "Starbucks at 40: Java juggernaut branches out". Interview with Bruce Horovitz, www.usatoday.com. March 10, 2011.

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• Sometimes I've felt that the industry has typecast me as a certain kind of character. But then I think all it really takes is one role, the right role, to shake that up and change that perception.

  David Schwimmer

  Character, Thinking, Perception

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• In L.A. everyone is in the entertainment industry, so you're forced to think about work.

  Sean William Scott

  Thinking, Entertainment, Entertainment Industry

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• Healthcare has been the last major industry that hasn't been touched by technology in terms of productivity and consumer adoption in the way so many other industries have.

  John Sculley

  Technology, Adoption, Way

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• I have a dirty mouth sometimes, and I'm very liberal, and that doesn't always go down well in the film industry - especially when you've got to appeal to mums and daughters.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Daughter, Mother, Dirty

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• Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.

  Tupac Shakur

  Music, Hero, Homeboys

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Everything that happens on Wall Street only fortifies my opinion that there is in fact a more ludicrous industry than the entertainment industry.

  Michael Shannon

  Wall, Facts, Entertainment

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• You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know quite what is going to happen.

  William Shatner

  Pants, Entertainment, Shows

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• When I started the diamond business, no black person, period, was in it to do what we're trying to do to change the industry. So I like to do things that I see clearly that are in my, you know, scope. And then, I had to figure how I get talented or smart business people around me to execute. That's what I have to do.

  Russell Simmons

  Smart, People, Black

  "Does Russell Simmons Serve Hip-Hop?". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. June 4, 2007.

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• TiVo and other digital recording devices have confounded advertisers. The ad industry sees the technology as a threat to their product.

  Simon Sinek

  Technology, Digital, Threat

  "The Ad Industry Needs More Accountability" by Simon Sinek, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2010.

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• Offer someone the opportunity to rebuild a company or reinvent an industry as the primary incentive, and it will attract those drawn to the challenge first and the money second.

  Simon Sinek

  Opportunity, Challenges, Incentives

  "Getting the Best Leaders Takes More Than Money" by Simon Sinek, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• The ad industry thinks their clients are their customers. They think the companies who pay for the production are the ones they are supposed to serve. So the ads they produce make their clients happy... but infuriate the rest of us.

  Simon Sinek

  Thinking, Pay, Clients

  "I Hate You: A Tale About Advertising" by Simon Sinek, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 2010.

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• The irony is, the advertising industry knows everyone hates what they produce. This is why they keep looking for new ways to force people to stay tuned.

  Simon Sinek

  Hate, People, Way

  "I Hate You: A Tale About Advertising" by Simon Sinek, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 2010.

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• Artists are very young, and say, Um, ok, to these industry dudes.

  Nikki Sixx

  Artist, Young

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• The industry is a menace to artists.

  Nikki Sixx

  Artist, Menace

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• 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

  Time, Business, Medicine

  Samuel Smiles (2009). “Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.389, The Floating Press

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