Industry Quotes - Page 15

• Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

  Samuel Smiles

  Wisdom, Perseverance, Journey

  Samuel Smiles (2009). “Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.462, The Floating Press

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• It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.

  Adam Smith

  Country, Banking, Economy

  Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.131

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• Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved.

  Thomas Sowell

  Jobs, Mean, Loss

  Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 8, 2012.

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• First, the firearms industry has been around and has been respected for generations. They provide a valuable service and a highly desirable product to millions of sportsmen and supporters of those second amendment rights.

  Cliff Stearns

  Rights, Second Amendment, Generations

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• If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.

  Ben Stein

  Reading, Writing, Fighting

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• You know, with the film industry crews, there's an odd mix between a very technical and a very artistic approach to the work, and sometimes as a woman you have to be a little bit careful about how things come out because people don't really want to listen if it's in a certain emotional tone or too strong.

  Kristen Stewart

  Strong, Emotional, People

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• A lot of people don't know what I do. In the industry they take credit for work because to some degree it makes them feel worthy or greater. I am not a ghostwriter 'cause it is on the CD covers who wrote and did what but people don't care about anything they can't see. The work gets unnoticed and the credibility goes untouched.

  Angie Stone

  Cds, People, Degrees

  "[INTERVIEW] Angie Stone: Soul on the Outside". Interview with Peter “Souleo” Wright, www.ebony.com. August 16, 2012.

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• I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry.

  George Strait

  Country, Entertainment, Learning Experience

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• Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.

  John Sununu

  Yellow, Fax Machines, Digital Revolution

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• The fact that industries wax and wane is a reality of any economic system that wants to remain dynamic and responsive to people's changing tastes.

  James Surowiecki

  Reality, People, Want

  "The Downside of Downsizing". www.slate.com. November 07 1997.

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• In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they'd never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened by the passage of the Wagner Act, which made collective bargaining easier, unions organized industries across the country, remaking the economy.

  James Surowiecki

  Country, Heart, Done

  "State of the Unions". www.newyorker.com. January 17, 2011.

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• In industries where a lot of competitors are selling the same product - mangoes, gasoline, DVD players - price is the easiest way to distinguish yourself. The hope is that if you cut prices enough you can increase your market share, and even your profits. But this works only if your competitors won't, or can't, follow suit.

  James Surowiecki

  Cutting, Player, Dvds

  "Priced To Go". www.newyorker.com. November 9, 2009.

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• In the auto industry, there's one thing you can always count on: if a new environmental or safety rule is proposed, executives will prophesy disaster.

  James Surowiecki

  Safety, Environmental, Disaster

  "Fuel for Thought". www.newyorker.com. July 23, 2007.

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• Conserving energy and thus saving money, reducing consumption of unnecessary products and packaging and shifting to a clean-energy economy would likely hurt the bottom line of polluting industries, but would undoubtedly have positive effects for most of us.

  David Suzuki

  Hurt, Energy, Packaging

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• A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it.

  Taylor Swift

  School, People, Rejection

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• The print magazine and print journalism industry is obviously in a great deal of trouble, and one of the things that happened when this business started to give way to the Internet and to broadcast television is that a lot of organizations started cutting specifically investigative journalism and they also started cutting fact-checkers.

  Matt Taibbi

  Cutting, Organization, Giving

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• Ratings agencies are the glue that ostensibly holds the entire financial industry together.

  Matt Taibbi

  Agency, Together, Glue

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• It's not a stretch to say the whole financial industry revolves around the compass point of the absolutely safe AAA rating. But the financial crisis happened because AAA ratings stopped being something that had to be earned and turned into something that could be paid for.

  Matt Taibbi

  Safe, Financial, Compass

  "The Last Mystery of the Financial Crisis" by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. June 19, 2013.

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• Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that. The Titanic saved lives because we're building bigger and bigger ships. So these people died, but we have effectively improved the safety of the system, and nothing failed in vain.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Failure, People, Safety

  The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. December 3, 2012.

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• The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Running, Dog, Money

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophical, Animal, Squirrels

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.92, BookBaby

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• I've no grand designs to conquer the music industry, but I'd love to be able to tell my mates that I'm playing in a pub in Camden one night.

  Luke Treadaway

  Night, Design, Able

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• But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.

  Obie Trice

  Want, September, Music Industry

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

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• I'd like to say that right now, in the last few years, the Democrats have been closer - have been more pro-environment. The coal industry is pretty well entrenched in the Republican Party and that's one of the things that we need to phase out.

  Ted Turner

  Party, Years, Needs

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• When you innovate, you create new industries that then boost your economy. And when you create new industries and that becomes part of your culture, your jobs can't go overseas because no one else has figured out how to do it yet.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Jobs, Culture, Economy

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