Industry Quotes

• We saw that the music industry was changing and we felt that it needed to change. We have wanted to do this for a very long time.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Industry
  • Flourish
  • Cottage

• Our plight, ... is a true indication of the general health of the touring industry and it is across musical genres.

  

  Perry Farrell Jane's Addiction
  • Health
  • Indication
  • Plight

• I love Twitter! At first I made fun of it, because it is very narcissistic, and there's already so much narcissism flowing in this industry, I was like, 'Really, one more?' So I was against it at first. But I really love the idea of the direct connection - there's no middle man muddling it up.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Connection

• I'm now in my mid-thirties, so I look in the mirror and my face is changing, and I have a different relationship all of a sudden with myself. Your face changes, things change - that's just kind of what happens. It's hard, though, in this industry, because I think so much importance is put on how you look, and I'm not brave enough to be like, "You know what? I'm just going to let it happen. Whatever. I'm so cool with every line on my face."

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Different
  • Relationship
  • Cool

• We're very positive. The company has made good inroads into the networking industry.

  

  Chris Chaney Jane's Addiction
  • Positive
  • Company
  • Made

• The hi-tech industry is not a monolithic thing. If you look on a timeline of a company, you see that in the beginning, you have to come up with an idea and to be willing to take risk. You have to grow fast, you have to think fast, and you have to do this usually in small teams.

  

  Yossi Vardi
  • Up
  • Small
  • Beginning

• It was like a dream. It happened so fast from the day we got the record and from the day we did American Bandstand. Everybody (in the band) got a gold record from the recording industry.

  

  Bobby Balderrama Question Mark & the Mysterians
  • Dream
  • Record
  • Industry

• Unnamed entertainment industry moguls are now telling the New York Times that they intend never to work with Mel Gibson again. After all, how dare Mel Gibson challenge the public by producing a film that spurs public discussion, that pushes the envelope, that takes an old story to a new level. How dare Mel Gibson follow his own passion as a filmmaker. How dare he make $20 million on the opening day box office!

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • Industry
  • Entertainment
  • Moguls

• With this agreement, virtually the entire mutual fund industry has now sworn off improper trading practices and agreed to compensate investors who were harmed.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Industry
  • Agreement
  • Investors

• Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Innovation
  • Apple
  • Dell

• 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
  • World
  • Business
  • Game

• What precedent are we setting in doing this for one industry and not for others?

  

  Lloyd Doggett
  • Industry
  • Setting
  • Precedent

• It's going to require experimentation, reinventing the industry.

  

  Douglas Reed
  • Experimentation
  • Require
  • Reinventing

• The debate about climate change in many ways is tied to the petroleum industry. If the value of petroleum was considerably less than it is, and the value of coal was considerably less than it is, there would be much less debate about this.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Value
  • Climate Change
  • Petroleum

• Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal. In such condition there is no place for industry... no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Danger
  • Industry
  • Violent Death

• I think that that multiplatform development is what's on the mind of most high-end PC developers now... this is really the first time in the industry's history that we've had console machines that can handle all that PC developers can deliver.

  

  Mike Wilson
  • Machines
  • Developers
  • Console

• Southern Union is buying lines in a region that may have higher production in coming decades. The newest gas-shale play that has the industry most excited is Barnett Woodford in West Texas, just west of the Permian.

  

  John Whiting
  • Excited
  • Lines
  • Higher

• I love that I came up this way. First of all, I have nine close friends, and it's hard to find people you can trust and lean on in this industry.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• It's hypocritical. The industry saw the warning signs. Others saw the warning signs. Something should have been done sooner.

  

  Cary Cooper
  • Signs
  • Warning
  • Hypocritical

• Over-production is not possible in all branches of industry at once, but it is possible in some as compared to others.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Industry
  • Branches
  • Productions

• Industry is the root of all ugliness.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Industry
  • Root
  • Ugliness

• 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
  • Community
  • Industry
  • Egoism

• Character, courage, industry and perseverance are the four pillars on which the whole edifice of human life can be built and failure is a word unknown to me.

  

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah
  • Character
  • Humans
  • Perseverance

1

...

4

5

6

7

8

...

20

previous

next