Industry Quotes - Page 34

• It's a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don't learn from our successes.

  Keith Braithwaite

  Mistake, Coders, Curious

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• The very same British and American families who had combined to wreck the Indian textile industry in the promotion of the opium trade [...] combined to make the trade, a valuable source of revenue. In 1864 they joined forces to create causes for war and to promote the terrible War Between the States, also known as the American Civil War.

  John Coleman

  War, Textiles, Wrecks

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• But there still prevails, even in nations well acquainted with commerce, a strong jealousy with regard to the balance of trade, and a fear, that all their gold and silver may be leaving them. This seems to me, almost in every case, a groundless apprehension; and I should as soon dread, that all our springs and rivers should be exhausted, as that money should abandon a kingdom where there are people and industry.

  David Hume

  Strong, Spring, Rivers

  David Hume (2016). “Essays Moral, Political, Literary: Revision of Great Book”, p.269, VM eBooks

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• I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use. It is only from the various essays of experimental industry, and the vague excursions of mind set upon discovery, that any advancement of knowledge can be expected; and though many must be disappointed in their labours, yet they are not to be charged with having spent their time in vain; their example contributed to inspire emulation, and their miscarriage taught others the way to success.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Miscarriage, Necessary Use

  Samuel Johnson (1889). “Select Essays”

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• She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

  Jane Austen

  Patience, Understanding, Fancy

  Jane Austen (2009). “Emma”, p.25, Wild Jot Press

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• In the hands of a people whose education has been willfully neglected, the ballot is a cunning swindle benefitting only the united barons of industry, trade and property.

  Daniel Guerin

  Hands, People, Anarchy

  Daniel Guérin (1970). “Anarchism; from theory to practice”, Monthly Review Pr

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• I called the album 'The Chemo' because it seems like the industry and music overall is dying slowly.

  Busta Rhymes

  Dying Slowly, Albums, Seems

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

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• What I've learned is not to take anybody's advice. If you rely solely on your fans, it sets you up for the downfall
  on the industry side and if you rely on what your label is saying, it will disconnect you from your fans.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Advice, Fans, Labels

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• The property a man has in his own industry, is violated, whenever he is forbidden the free exercise of his faculties or talents, except insomuch as they would interfere with the rights of third parties.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Party, Exercise, Men

  Jean Baptiste Say (1821). “A treatise on political economy; or, The production, distribution, and consumption of wealth. Tr. by C.R. Prinsep, with notes”, p.157

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• With the socialization of the health care system through institutions such as Medicaid and Medicare and the regulation of the insurance industry (by restricting an insurer’s right of refusal: to exclude any individual risk as uninsurable, and discriminate freely, according to actuarial methods, between different group risks) a monstrous machinery of wealth and income redistribution at the expense of responsible individuals and low-risk groups in favor of irresponsible actors and high-risk groups has been put in motion.

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe

  Risk, Groups, Different

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe (2011). “DemocracyThe God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order”, p.196, Transaction Publishers

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• Political economy has disapproved equally of monopoly and communism in the various branches of human activity, wherever it has found them. Is it not then strange and unreasonable that it accepts them in the security industry?

  Gustave de Molinari

  Political, Branches, Strange

  Gustave Molinari (1977). “Production of Security, The”, p.28, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• I've always considered making it legal for Americans to import their prescription drugs a free-trade issue. Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers.

  Chuck Grassley

  Issues, Drug, Competition

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• I'm not criticizing Hollywood because I work there, I partly live there. But I'm saying this is the way it is, commerce is taking over art. Commerce has become the most important thing in the film industry. Hollywood is an industry, it's not an art form, therefore they have to address the bottom line. But in a way it's sad when you get a remake, isn't it?

  Ridley Scott

  Art, Important, Hollywood

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• While expanding market access for American industry, financial markets and farmers is critical, I believe it needs to be done responsibly, accounting for the treatment and protection of workers and the environment.

  Mark Udall

  Believe, Needs, Done

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• The Model T blazed the way for the motor industry & started the movement for good roads everywhere. It is still the pioneer car in many parts of the world which are just beginning to be motorized.

  Henry Ford

  Car, Way, Pioneers

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• I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in making, but shall draw its raw material largely from the annual produce of the fields. I am convinced that we shall be able to get out of yearly crops most of the basic materials which we now get from forest and mine.

  Henry Ford

  Age, Raw Materials, Generations

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• Those externalized costs have always included labor. It is only the decline over time of the minimum wage in real dollars that's made the fast food industry possible, along with feedlot agriculture, pharmaceuticals on the farm, pesticides and regulatory forbearance. All these things are part of the answer to the question: Why is that crap so cheap? Our food is dishonestly priced. One of the ways in which it's dishonestly priced is the fact that people are not paid a living wage to process it, to serve it, to grow it, to slaughter it.

  Michael Pollan

  Real, Agriculture, People

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• The crude product of nature, the object fashioned by the industry of man, acquire their reality, their identity, only to the extent of their participation in a transcendent reality.

  Mircea Eliade

  Reality, Men, Identity

  Mircea Eliade (2005). “The Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos and History”, p.5, Princeton University Press

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• A reasonable estimate of economic organisation must allow for the fact that, unless industry is to be paralysed by recurrent revolts on the part of outraged human nature, it must satisfy criteria which are not purely economic.

  R. H. Tawney

  Facts, Human Nature, Economic

  'Religion and the Rise of Capitalism' (1926)

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• What we are trying to do at Virgin is not to have one enormous company in one sector under one banner, but to have two hundred or even three hundred separate companies. Each company can stand on its own feet and, in that way, although we've got a brand that links them, if we were to have another tragedy such as that of 11 September - which hurt the airline industry - it would not bring the whole group crashing down.

  Richard Branson

  Hurt, Two, Feet

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• The one thing that I think separates Microsoft from a lot of other people is we make bold bets. We're persistent about them, but we make them. A lot of people won't make a bold bet. A bold bet doesn't assure you of winning, but if you make no bold bets you can't continue to succeed. Our industry doesn't allow you to rest on your laurels forever. I mean, you can milk any great idea. Any idea that turns out to be truly great can be harvested for tens of years. On the other hand, if you want to continue to be great, you've got to bet on new things, big, bold bets.

  Steve Ballmer

  Mean, Thinking, Winning

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• This is a government which is proposing to put at risk our manufacturing industry, to penalise struggling families, to make a tough situation worse for millions of households right around Australia. And for what? To make not a scrap of difference to the environment any time in the next 1000 years.

  Tony Abbott

  Struggle, Australia, Government

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• I don't think fashion week will go back to what it used to be because people are realising that the industry is completely changing. It's not just in Bryant Park any more, people are figuring out who their audience is, where they want to show, they aren't really playing by the rules. It's not so much about these editors, these buyers.

  Alexander Wang

  Fashion, Thinking, Editors

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• Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges.

  Pat Conroy

  Opportunity, Challenges, Population

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• The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world.

  Vanessa Carlton

  Ballet, World, Easy

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

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