“When all of your decisions are based on economics, you end up with a sameness of vision. You're not taking the risks, you're not exploiting the passions of your creators. You're manufacturing product for a huge vending machine.” EndsPassionDecisionVisionRiskProductsHugeEconomicsMachinesCreatorManufacturingSamenessVending Machines Author:Steven Bochco
“Our goal is not to assume leadership of existing institutions, but rather to render them irrelevant. We don't want to take over the state or change its policies. We want to render its laws unenforceable. We don't want to take over corporations and make them more 'socially responsible.' We want to build a counter-economy of open-source information, neighborhood garage manufacturing, permaculture, encrypted currency and mutual banks, leaving the corporations to die on the vine along with the state. We do not hope to reform the existing order. We intend to serve as its grave-diggers.” WantStatesLawPurposeOrderDiesSocialGoalChangeEconomyInformationPolicySourceEconomicsResponsibleAimInstitutionsAssumingLeavingGravesReformCorporationsNeighborhoodMutualCurrencyIrrelevantManufacturingReformationGarageVinesRenderingPermacultureOpen SourceEconomic Reforms Author:Kevin Carson
“I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy. We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based. I mean, I know people who can tell you who won the last four seasons on American Idol and they don't know who their [bleeping] Representatives are.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldTryingMeanPlayWholeLastsCultureFourSeriousOughtHealthySmartGunEconomicsSeasonsEntertainmentDiscussionSmokingIdolsRepresentativesYoutubeManufacturingSmart PeopleProliferationReally SmartAmerican IdolFour SeasonsCelebrity Culture Author:Stephen King
“By the way on economics, South Carolina is an example to the country of what we should be doing as Americans. This country has a vast manufacturing base. It is growing in manufacturing where America is shrinking and it's because they have reduced taxes and lower regulatory burdens and been pro-business.” WayShouldCountryAmericaGrowingExampleTaxesEconomicsSouthBurdenManufacturingCarolinaShrinkingSouth Carolina Author:Marco Rubio
“When it comes to economics, president-elect [Donald] Trump has promised to revive American manufacturing, get tough on trade with China, cut taxes and invest in infrastructure.” PresidentCuttingTrumpTaxesToughEconomicsTradeChinaInfrastructureManufacturingRevive Author:Judy Woodruff
“We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.” WorldTryingPlayCultureSeriousEconomicsEntertainmentManufacturing Author:Stephen King
“Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.” LibertyEconomyEconomicPolicyEconomicsTradeLibertarianTendenciesCapitalistLibertarianismMonopolyManufacturingFree TradeLaissez FaireCapitalist Economy Author:Ludwig von Mises
“Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.” InspirationalMotivationalChoicesInspiringResultsEffortBusinessQualityCommitmentEconomicsPerfectionIntelligentManagementExcellenceIntentionIntelligenceFocusedAccidentsProductivityImprovementAlternativesProductiveExecutionAssuranceManufacturingSkillfulHigh QualityPlannersBusiness PlanMaking ChoicesCraftsmanshipQuality EducationQuality TimeBusiness ManagementKaizenWorkmanshipEffort And Hard WorkQuality WorkBusiness PlanningQuality In BusinessGreat QualitiesCommitment In BusinessInspirational CommitmentPoor QualityQuality ManagementWise ChoicesQuality ServicePlanning For SuccessEffort And SuccessCommitment To ExcellenceAcademic ExcellenceQuality Not Quantity Author:John Ruskin
“Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exists between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other.” PhilosophyPoliticalEconomicsManufacturingTransportationReciprocal Author:Friedrich List
“In manufacturing, where mechanization and the use of chemical processes are much easier, it is easier to raise productivity than in services. In contrast, by their very nature, many service activities are inherently impervious to productivity increase without diluting the quality of the product.” UseProcessQualityProductsEasierActivityEconomicsIncreaseRaisesProductivityChemicalsContrastManufacturingImperviousMechanization Author:Ha-Joon Chang