Industry Quotes - Page 28

• Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two don't trust the third one - the third one is the government. Both industry and unions feel the government is a talking organization and a spending organization.

  Shimon Peres

  Trust, Government, Talking

  "Israel's Statesman of Peace". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 2, 2003.

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• Do we realize that industry, which has been our good servant, might make a poor master?

  Aldo Leopold

  Might, Realizing, Poor

  Aldo Leopold, David Earl Brown, Neil B. Carmony (1995). “Aldo Leopold's Southwest”, p.160, UNM Press

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• Bankers, nepotists, contracts and talkies: on four fingers one may count the leeches which have sucked a young and vigorous industry into paresis.

  Dalton Trumbo

  May, Bankers, Leeches

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• This blacklisting is going to collapse because it is rotten, immoral and illegal. I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio. I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best picture that I have it in me to do

  Dalton Trumbo

  Brother, Kings, Years

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• I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio

  Dalton Trumbo

  One Day, Contracts, Motion Pictures

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• In recent years personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers have attacked the food industry with numerous lawsuits alleging that these businesses should pay monetary damages to those who, of their own accord, consume too much of a legal, safe product.

  Bob Ney

  Years, Trials, Safe

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• Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.

  Angela Carter

  Sexy, Fashion, Women

  Angela Carter (1998). “Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings”, Penguin Group USA

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• This remains a very important opportunity for the American people to have their day in court against big tobacco and its marketing practices. I urge Congress to provide the funding to allow the lawsuit to move forward, and not to shield the tobacco industry from the consequences of its actions.

  William J. Clinton

  Moving Forward, Opportunity, Practice

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• Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice - keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.

  Noah Porter

  Inspirational, Leadership, Determination

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• We are No. 1 worldwide by quite a margin on the client side and expanding, according to IDC and others, every single quarter. Our expectation is that the industry will consolidate and that more of our competitors will exit.

  Kevin B. Rollins

  Expectations, Sides, Exit

  "Interview: Dell's Rollins lays out a road map, from services to AMD". Interview with Tom Sullivan, www.infoworld.com. November 12, 2004.

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• Especially in times of collective neurosis, the existence of . . . mature people is of crucial importance.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  People, Balance, Neurosis

  Marie-Louise Von Franz (1999). “Archetypal Dimensions of the Psyche”, p.234, Shambhala Publications

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• From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.

  David Antin

  May, Entertainment, Language

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• In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the two great oligarchies of our time.

  Edward Abbey

  Government, Two, Differences

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.19, RosettaBooks

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• Of all the countries of the world America is the one where the movement of thought and human industry is the most continuous and swift.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Country, Countries Of The World, America

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• Law cannot organize labor and industry without organizing injustice.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Law, Injustice, Organize

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.23, Cosimo, Inc.

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• All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is withdrawn from commerce and agriculture where it would have produced addition to the common mass It nourishes in our citizens habits of vice and idleness instead of industry and morality It has furnished effectual means of corrupting such a portion of the legislature as turns the balance between the honest voters whichever way it is directed.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mean, Agriculture, Balance

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson memorial association of the United States (1907). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• Your love of liberty -- your respect for the laws -- your habits of industry -- and your practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the strongest claims to national and individual happiness.

  George Washington

  Religious, Individual Happiness, Law

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral and Religious”, p.369

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• The whole industry evolves around a great song

  Michael Bolton

  Song, Evolve, Whole

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• I don't have to worry about what people are thinking and what's going on in the industry. I don't want that stuff to influence what I'm doing. Because I think it stifles you creatively. I don't want to have to care too much about that. All I care about is what the fans think. It's really all I care about, honestly.

  Shania Twain

  Thinking, Worry, People

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• The New World Order is a world that has a supernational authority to regulate world commerce and industry; an international organization that would control the production and consumption of oil; an international currency that would replace the dollar; a World Development Fund that would make funds available to free and Communist nations alike; and an international police force to enforce the edicts of the New World Order.

  Willy Brandt

  Order, Organization, Oil

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• The rubber industry is of much significance to our countries. For millions of our smallholders, the rubber tree is a tree of life, serving as a crucial source of income for earning a living and raising families.

  Thaksin Shinawatra

  Country, Tree, Income

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• We are considering various ways of making use of our oil and gas downstream industries. This is to be complemented with the import of oil and gas from other sources as raw materials.

  Hassanal Bolkiah

  Oil, Raw Materials, Use

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• Expansion and modernization of the nation's productive plant is essential to accelerate economic growth and to improve the international competitive position of American industry An early stimulus to business investment will promote recovery and increase employment.

  John F. Kennedy

  Recovery, Growth, Expansion

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.51, Best Books on

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• You still could go to some industry or some university or the government and if you could persuade them you had something on the ball—why, then, they might put up the cash after cutting themselves in on just about all of the profits. And, naturally, they'd run the show because it was their money and all you had done was the sweating and the bleeding.

  Clifford D. Simak

  Running, Cutting, Government

  Clifford D. Simak (2013). “Project Mastodon”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• I was supposedly living this glamorous life, but I was crippled by the idea of growing old and where do I go next? The whole age thing—in our industry, it's everything.

  Beverly Johnson

  Ideas, Age, Growing

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