Industry Quotes - Page 38

• In a couple of years, the Chinese will be seen as regular participants in international industry. Their companies have to report to shareholders as well as to the Chinese authorities. They need to make money, they have to be efficient.

  Daniel Yergin

  Money, Couple, Years

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• The world has produced about 1 trillion barrels of oil since the start of the industry in the nineteenth century. Currently, it is thought that there are at least 5 trillion barrels of petroleum resources, of which 1.4 trillion is sufficiently developed and technically and economically accessible.

  Daniel Yergin

  Oil, World, Century

  Daniel Yergin (2011). “The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World”, p.207, Penguin

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• Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.

  Sally Kirkland

  Should Have, Giving, Moments

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• For anyone in our industry, one of the toughest things about having a relationship is how much time you get to see each other. The fact that we see each other every day, no matter what, has really worked out nicely for us. She's such a great girl. She makes what I do so much easier and so much more enjoyable.

  James Roday

  Girl, Matter, Facts

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• So much of today's film culture, in England and America, is based on lies, really. The industry is very ambitious, and success has become such an opium, people start from the wrong place they forget sometimes that the core of what we do is storytelling. It serves a need, a purpose for the individual and society to pull us together in shared experience and help us realize we're not alone in that experience.

  Joe Wright

  Lying, England And America, People

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• I don't look at business as a zero-sum game. I don't. I've never seen it play out that way in our industry, and I think you innovate and you add value, deliver value back to customers, and you get value back from the world.

  Marc Benioff

  Zero, Thinking, Games

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• If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Organization, House, Despair

  Benjamin Franklin (1839). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.7

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• New technologies such as solar systems or hybrid cars aren't created overnight. By extending these tax credits we are giving this industry time to grow, branch out and succeed.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Technology, Car, Giving

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• By employing the intelligence of natural systems we can create industry, buildings, even regional plans that see nature and commerce not as mutually exclusive but mutually coexisting.

  Brad Pitt

  Building, Natural, Eco Friendly

  e2: The Economies of Being Environmentally Conscious, www.pbs.org. 2006.

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• I am tired of being in an industry that doesn't appreciate me.

  Luther Campbell

  Tired, Appreciate, Appreciate Me

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• Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide.

  Friedrich List

  Letting Go, Suicide, Fall

  Friedrich List, Erwin von Beckerath, Karl Goeser, Friedrich Lenz, Edgar Salin “Schriften, reden, briefe ...”

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• Prosperity's right hand is industry and her left hand is frugality.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hands, Left Hand, Prosperity

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• If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race.

  Yahoo Serious

  Race, Rocks, Government

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them.

  Yahoo Serious

  Australia Day, Stories, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Now there is a society where the funeral industry got completely out of control.

  Jessica Mitford

  Funeral

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• Younger adult smokers are the only source of replacement smokers If younger adults turn away from smoking, the industry must decline.

  R. J. Reynolds

  Smoking, Adults, Replacements

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• Evidence is now available to indicate that the 14-to-18- year-old group is an increasing segment of the smoking population. RJR-T must soon establish a successful new brand in this market if our position in the industry is to be maintained over the long term.

  R. J. Reynolds

  Successful, Years, Long

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• If younger adults turn away from smoking, the industry will decline, just as a population which does not give birth will eventually dwindle.

  R. J. Reynolds

  Giving, Smoking, Adults

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• There exists in this country, sadly, a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells and stows violence against its own people. Through vicious, violent video games...

  Wayne LaPierre

  Country, Games, People

  Wayne LaPierre's Speech after the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, hollywoodlife.com. December 21, 2012.

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• We're a stupid industry led by stupid people.

  Gordon Bethune

  Stupid, Stupid People, People

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• The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness

  Theodor Adorno

  Culture, Conformity, Consciousness

  Theodor W Adorno (2005). “The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture”, p.104, Routledge

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• After the war, there was no industry. We lost the war. We had our whole city destroyed. No money. No studio. No film. No camera. No equipment. We would shoot in the street. We had no actors. Nothing. But we wanted to do movies. And we did the best movies in the world.

  Dino De Laurentiis

  War, Cities, Cameras

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• Film is the most expensive, highest risk industry in the world.

  Ann Macbeth

  Risk, World, Film

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• In the industry, you do need some ethics - if one film does well, then thousands get work and money comes back to the industry. I guess the bottomline is, if there are two versions, then the better one will click.

  Ajay Devgan

  Two, Doe, Needs

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• The film industry is a lovely family and I respect it.

  Sanjay Dutt

  Lovely, Film, Lovely Family

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