Manufacturing Quotes - Page 14

• On this ancient and miraculous world, where such beautiful natural and living things have evolved, something has gone wrong when life itself is used as a manufacturing process.

  Roger Ebert

  Beautiful, Gone, World

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• Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.

  Ralph Merkle

  Giants, Needs, Machines

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• The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's asking for it, asking to be undone, devoured, asking to spend her life perpetrating a new fraud, manufacturing a new fake identity, only this time it's her equality that's fake.

  Rachel Cusk

  Wine, Thinking, Fake

  Rachel Cusk (2012). “Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation”, p.13, Faber & Faber

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• When a population saves a lot, the funds are invested outside the country as well as inside. If the Japanese invest in the United States, it pushes their exchange rate down and makes their manufacturing more competitive.

  Evan Davis

  Country, United States, Population

  "Evan Davis: 'I'm a presenter who is gay rather than a gay presenter'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. May 07, 2011.

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• The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.

  Carly Fiorina

  Government, California, Leaving

  "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. June 13, 2010.

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• Where are the jobs going to come from?Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, America, Energy

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• Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation.

  Larry Elder

  Jobs, Unemployment, Cost

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• I drive Fords, and I've driven American cars all my life, and I want to have a strong American manufacturing sector, especially in automobiles.

  Jim DeMint

  Strong, Car, Want

  "GOP Auto Bailout Critic Outlines Rationale". "All Things Considered" with Michele Norris, www.npr.org. December 10, 2008.

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• Well, I think we are seeing some shifts in manufacturing. China, when you go in and you talk to the big manufacturers there, the biggest problems in mainland China are recruiting and retention. There isn't an endless supply of cheap labor anymore in China. And it's now true that the labor rates in Mexico are lower than in China.

  Rodney Brooks

  Thinking, Mexico, Problem

  "Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humans and Robots in the Economy". Council on Foreign Relations Malcolm and Carolyn Wiener Annual Lecture on Science and Technology, www.cfr.org. February 27, 2015.

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• The great cry that rises from our manufacturing cities, louder than their furnace blast, is all in very deed for this, that we manufacture everything there except men; we blanch cotton, and strengthen steel, and refine sugar, and shape pottery; but to brighten, to strengthen, to refine, or to form a single living spirit, never enters into our estimate of advantages.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Cities, Steel

  John Ruskin (2012). “Selections From the Works of John Ruskin”, p.215, tredition

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• "Value added" is a meaningless concept for a retail business , for a bank, for a life insurance company, and for any other business which is not primarily engaged in manufacturing.

  Peter Drucker

  Retail, Insurance Companies, Company

  "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1973.

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• To recover from the current economic downturn, it has been estimated that we need to create on the order of 17 million to 20 million new jobs in the coming decade...And it's very hard to imagine where those jobs are going to come from unless we seriously get busy reinventing manufacturing.

  Susan Hockfield

  Jobs, Order, New Job

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• As the chosen people bore in their features the sign manual of Jehovah , so the division of labour brands the manufacturing workman as the property of capital .

  Karl Marx

  People, Division, Jehovah

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.396, Cosimo, Inc.

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