Industry Quotes - Page 19

• 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

  Art, Fate, Long

  Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant, Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) (1892). “The Heir Presumptive and the Heir Apparent”

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• Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our national pastime, our national symbol, and our national treasure.

  John Thorn

  Baseball, Player, Treasure

  John Thorn (1995). “Baseball: our game”, Penguin Books

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• If then the prosperity of the commercial classes, will most certainly lead to accumulation of capital, and the encouragement of productive industry; these can by no means be so surely obtained as by a fall in the price of corn.

  David Ricardo

  Encouragement, Fall, Mean

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1846). “The Works of David Ricardo, Esq., M.P.: With a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author”, p.388, London, J. Murray

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• My older siblings and I all work in 'the industry'. So obviously we have hectic schedules, but we make it work.

  Lily Collins

  Sibling, Hectic Schedule, Schedules

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• Today when the public thinks of the products of science it is likely to think about environmental problems, an unproductive armament industry, careless or dishonest 'scientific' reports, Livermore cheers for 'nukes forever' and a huge amount of self-serving noise on every subject from global warming to 'the face of God'.

  Leo Kadanoff

  Cheer, Science, Thinking

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• Industry, economy, honesty and kindness form a quartet of virtue that will never be improved upon.

  Jamie Oliver

  Honesty, Kindness, Improvement

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• Three outstanding qualities make for success: judgment, industry, health. And the greatest of these is judgment.

  Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

  Quality, Three, Judgment

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• I'm not sure what solutions we'll find to deal with all our environmental problems, but I'm sure of this: They will be provided by industry; they will be products of technology. Where else can they come from?

  George M. Keller

  Technology, Environmental, Problem

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• The advance of technology, like the growth of population and industry, has also been proceeding exponentially.

  Carl Kaysen

  Technology, Growth, Population

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• There's a growing sense that the online ad industry is out of control from a privacy perspective and that some rules need to be put in place.

  Marc Rotenberg

  Perspective, Needs, Growing

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• It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.

  Alan Cooper

  Technology, Discipline, Example

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• Whether hunting is right or wrong, a spiritual experience, or an outlet for the killer instinct, one thing it is not is a sport. Sport is when individuals or teams compete against each other under equal circumstances to determine who is better at a given game or endeavor. Hunting will be a sport when deer, elk, bears, and ducks are... given 12-gauge shotguns. Bet we'd see a lot fewer drunk yahoos (live ones, anyway) in the woods if that happened.

  Richard Lerner

  Sports, Spiritual, Team

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• Whereas the chemico-chemists always find in industry a beautiful field of gold-laden soil, the physico-chemists stand somewhat farther off, especially those who seek only the greatest dilution, for in general there is little to make with watery solutions.

  Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff

  Beautiful, Science, Gold

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• Industry is far more efficient than the university in making use of scientific developments for the public good.
  Reported in 1981, as a co-founder of Genentech, Inc., a company to offer gene-splicing products.

  Herbert Boyer

  Science, Use, Development

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• Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.

  Rue McClanahan

  Fashion, Animal, Pet

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• We have come to think of art and work as incompatible, or at least independent categories and have for the first time in history created an industry without art.

  Ananda Coomaraswamy

  Art, Creativity, Independent

  Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy (1943). “Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art”, p.61, Courier Corporation

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• I have six sisters and two beautiful daughters - that's eight women who mean the world to me. I support the Entertainment Industry Foundation and Lee National Denim Day because they fund programs that are making huge strides in breast cancer research and support.

  Felicity Huffman

  Beautiful, Daughter, Mother

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• Your income right now is a result of your standards, it is not the industry, it is not the economy.

  Tony Robbins

  Powerful, Income, Economy

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• Any business or industry that pays equal rewards to its goof-off and its eager beavers sooner or later will find itself with more goof-offs than eager beavers.

  Mick Delaney

  Inspirational, Motivation, Pay

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• The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow, but rather determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage.

  Warren Buffett

  Keys, Investing, Durability

  Warren Buffett's remarks at Herb Allen's Sun Valley in Idaho Retreat, July 1999.

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• We're not in this for the fast money. Really, what we want is to be part of this industry.

  David Filo

  Money, Commitment, Want

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• The rapid growth of industry, the ever increasing population and the imperative need for a more varied, wholesome and nourishing foodstuff makes it all the more necessary to exhaust every means at our command to fill the empty dinner pail, enrich our soils, bring greater wealth and influence to our beautiful South land, which is synonymous to a healthy, happy and contented people.

  George Washington Carver

  Beautiful, Health, Mean

  "George Washington Carver: In His Own Words".

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• With your talents and industry, with science, and that steadfast honesty which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself every thing-but health, without which there is no happiness. An attention to health then should take place of evey other object. The time necessary to secure this by active exercises, should be devoted to it in preference to every other pursuit.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Honesty, Health, Exercise

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• So much for the crusade against drugs . . . all America is actually doing is consolidating its position as the biggest dealer in addictive and lethal substances on the planet, waging war on all rivals, whether they take the form of the Thai domestic tobacco industry or the Colombian cocaine cartels.

  Alexander Cockburn

  War, America, Drug

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• While many have been left behind by Part D, there is a clear winner: the drug industry. Independent analysts predict that Part D will increase drug industry profits by $139 billion over the next eight years. Glaxo-SmithKline's second-quarter net income already jumped 14 percent, and other leading drug companies also have benefited.

  Louise Slaughter

  Independent, Eight, Years

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