Quotes tagged ‘Industry’

“Usually, in this industry, it's every man for himself, and it's almost always a man telling you your ass is too fat at the same time he's trying to grope it. And having a woman in charge instead of that Sackballs guy? This is as good as it gets.”

— Emma Rathbone, Carly Mensch, Liz Flahive, Ruth Wilder, Alison Brie, imdb.com

“Industry, technology, and commerce can thrive only as long as an idealistic national community offers the necessary preconditions. And these do not lie in material egoism, but in a spirit of sacrifice and joyful renunciation.”

— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com

“Property is the fruit of labor...property is desirable...is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently…”

— Abraham Lincoln, rogerjnorton.com

“At first, we couldn’t be establishment, because we didn’t have any money. We were guerrilla marketers, and we still are, a little bit. But as we became No. 1 in our industry, we’ve had to modify our culture and become a bit more planned.”

— Phil Knight, inc.com

“"Capital-punishment states are the worst animal states and the worst for the handicapped.” All this makes Temple passionately angry, and passionately concerned for humane reform: she wants to reform the treatment of the handicapped, especially the autistic, as she wants to reform the treatment of ca…”

— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com

“Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.”

— John Tyler, en.wikiquote.org

“I spent the two and one-half months between my meeting with the Art Commission and the beginning of my actual mural work in soaking up impressions of the productive activities of the city. I studied industrial scenes by night as well as by day, making literally thousands of sketches of towering blas…”

— Diego Rivera, amazon.com

“While working in California, I met William Valentiner and Edgar Richardson of the Detroit Institute of Arts. I mentioned a desire which I had to paint a series of murals about the industries of the United States, a series that would constitute a new kind of plastic poem, depicting in color and form…”

— Diego Rivera, amazon.com

“As I rode back to Detroit, a vision of Henry Ford's industrial empire kept passing before my eyes. In my ears, I heard the wonderful symphony which came from his factories where metals were shaped into tools for men's service. It was a new music, waiting for the composer with genius enough to give i…”

— Diego Rivera, amazon.com

“Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.”

— Alfred Nobel, en.wikiquote.org

“Mankind by their industry have rendered the earth more proper for their abode.”

— Montesquieu, amazon.com