Industry Quotes - Page 40

• There is nothing antithetical in American history, culture, or traditions to teamwork. Teams were important in America's history - wagon trains conquered the West, men working together on the assembly line in American industry conquered the world, a successful national strategy and a lot of teamwork put an American on the moon first (and thus fare, last). But American mythology extols only the individual...In America, halls of fame exist for almost every conceivable activity, but nowhere do Americans raise monuments in praise of teamwork.

  Lester Thurow

  Teamwork, Successful, Moon

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• The vegan believes that if we are to be true emancipators of animals we must renounce absolutely our traditional and conceited attitude that we have the right to use them to serve our needs. We must supply these needs by other means.... If the vegan ideal of non-exploitation were generally adopted, it would be the greatest peaceful revolution ever known, abolishing vast industries and establishing new ones in the better interests of men and animals alike.

  Donald Watson

  Attitude, Believe, Mean

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• The person I love would never wear fur. Fur just makes me think of shallow women who have no conscience. The fur industry belongs to a time when people were selfish beyond belief. If you were some ancient tribal cheiftain, and there was not a department store nearby 350 years ago, I'd understand. But now, we have synthetic fibers,and it's not necessary. The elitism of fur makes me wanna puke.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Selfish, Thinking, Years

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• The advertising industry is one of our most basic forms of communication and, allegedly, of information. Yet, obviously, much of this ostensible information is not purveyed to inform but to manipulate and to achieve a result - to make somebody think he needs something that very possibly he doesn't need, or to make him think one version of something is better than another version when the ground for such a belief really doesn't exist.

  Marvin E. Frankel

  Communication, Thinking, Achievement

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• But, historians, and even common sense, may inform us, that, however specious these ideas of perfect equality may seem, they are really, at bottom, impracticable; and were they not so, would be extremely pernicious to human society. Render possessions ever so equal, men's different degrees of art, care, and industry will immediately break that equality. Or if you check these virtues, you reduce society to the most extreme indigence; and instead of preventing want and beggary in a few, render it unavoidable to the whole community.

  David Hume

  Art, Men, Ideas

  David Hume (2013). “Essays and Treatises on Philosophical Subjects”, p.290, Broadview Press

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• Let me get a sip of water here... you figure this stuff is safe to drink? Actually, I don't care, I drink it anyway. You know why? Because I'm an American and I expect a little cancer in my food and water. I'm a loyal American and I'm not happy unless I let government and industry poison me a little bit every day.

  George Carlin

  Letting Go, Philosophy, Cancer

  "Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics". Comedy album by George Carlin, 1990.

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• What the tech industry often forgets is that with age comes wisdom. Older workers are usually better at following direction, mentoring, and leading.

  Vivek Wadhwa

  Mentor, Age, Forget

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• Try to imagine a system of labor imposed by force that is not a violation of liberty; a transfer of wealth imposed by force that is not a violation of property rights. If you cannot do so, then you must agree that the law cannot organize labor and industry without organizing injustice.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Peace, Freedom, Rights

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• The organizer of industry who thinks he has 'made' himself and his business has found a whole social system ready to his hand in skilled workers, machinery, a market, peace and order - a vast apparatus and a pervasive atmosphere, the joint creation of millions of men and scores of generations. Take away the whole social factor, and we have not Robinson Crusoe with his salvage from the wreck and his acquired knowledge, but the native savage living on roots, berries and vermin.

  Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

  Thinking, Men, Hands

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• Speaking of competition in the fast-food industry. This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I'll kill 'em, and I'm going to kill 'em before they kill me.

  Ray Kroc

  Dog, Competition, Cooking

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• A policy of subsidizing failures will end in an economy strewn with capital-guzzling industries long past their time of profitability - old companies that cannot create jobs themselves, but can stand in the way of job creation.

  George Gilder

  Jobs, Past, Long

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• The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans have failed to bring up comprehensive energy reform or any piece of legislation for that matter that would lower gas prices, opting instead to give massive subsidies to the oil and gas industry

  Rosa DeLauro

  Oil, Giving, Energy

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• I hate to say it, but the truth is that the upscale line is where I get respect as a designer. The higher the price range, the higher the respect level from the industry, even though it's much easier to make a great $500 dress than a great $100 dress.

  Betsey Johnson

  Hate, Dresses, Levels

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• Future historians, I hope, will consider the American fast food industry a relic of the twentieth century--a set of attitudes, systems, and beliefs that emerged from postwar southern California, that embodied its limitless faith in technology, that quickly spread across the globe, flourished briefly, and then receded, once its true costs became clear and its thinking became obsolete.

  Eric Schlosser

  Attitude, Technology, Thinking

  Eric Schlosser (2002). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, Harper Perennial

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• The executives who run the fast food industry are not bad men. They are businessmen. They will sell free-range, organic, grass-fed hamburgers if you demand it. They will sell whatever sells at a profit.

  Eric Schlosser

  Running, Men, Hamburgers

  Eric Schlosser (2001). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, p.269, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The industry doesn't want you to know the truth about what you're eating, because if you knew, you might not want to eat it.

  Eric Schlosser

  Want, Might, Eating

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• There won't ever be a mass-market record industry again, and that's fine with me because that industry didn't operate for the benefit of the musicians or the audience, the only classes of people I care about.

  Steve Albini

  Class, People, Musician

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• By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum

  Steve Albini

  Wise, Rocks, Band

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• Tech is a funny industry I don't think there is any other industry on the planet that reinvents itself every 10-12 years.

  Edward Zander

  Thinking, Years, Planets

  "Edward Zander, Chairman and CEO of Motorola". Interview with Andrew Stevens, www.cnn.com. December 14, 2006.

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• The innovation industries are rapidly going global. In five years, more than 50% of venture capital returns will come from markets outside the United States, including China, India, Brazil, and Australia, and AlwaysOn events are on top of these trends.

  Jim Breyer

  Years, Australia, Innovation

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• Our mission is to revive the gaming industry by increasing our user base.

  Satoru Iwata

  Missions, Revive, Gaming

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• At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Song, Commercial Music, Rights

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• If did go back to school, I would want to learn another aspect of the entertainment industry like to become a producer or an agent, you need a law degree.

  Ethan Embry

  School, Law, Agents

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

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• I always tell women that the fact that you're different and that you're noticed, because there are few of us in the tech industry, is something you can leverage as an advantage.

  Padmasree Warrior

  Different, Facts, Advantage

  "Cisco Tech Chief Outlines The Advantages Of Being A Woman In Tech". Interview With Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2011.

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• Just as one year in a dog's life is equivalent to seven years in a human life, one year in the high-technology business is like seven years in any other industry.

  Regis McKenna

  Life, Dog, Business

  Regis McKenna (1985). “The Regis touch: million-dollar advice from America's top marketing consultant”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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