“Our work on light bulbs wasn't an arbitrary mandate. We didn't just pick a standard out of the air, or look for a catchy sounding standard like 25 by 2025 not based in science or feasibility. Instead, we worked with both industry and environmental groups to come up with a standard that made sense and was doable.” LooksMadeLightGroupsAirIndustryStandardsPicksEnvironmentalCome UpArbitraryMandatesBulbsCatchyLight BulbFeasibility Author:Fred Upton
“A lot of industry groups have said they support a federal law. They don't want to have to deal with 50 different state laws.” WantSaidDifferentStatesLawDealsSupportGroupsIndustry Author:William Jackson
“The fact that ACPI was designed by a group of monkeys high on LSD, and is some of the worst designs in the industry obviously makes running it at any point pretty damn ugly.” FactsRunningGroupsWorstDesignIndustryUglyDamnMonkeysLsd Author:Linus Torvalds
“I do feel like I owe something, but not to the industry. When you say "industry," I think of a group of people who don't really care much about you and treat you as a commodity. So, in that regard, I don't feel like I owe anything. But the people who've always been supportive of me and have always seen me for my greatest potential-those are the people who I feel like I owe something to. I feel like I am their voice. I owe it them to represent them in a way that they can be proud of.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsCareVoiceGroupsIndustryProudTreatsRegardCommodityBe ProudSupportive Author:Alicia Keys
“The movie industry would never purposely offend homosexuals, native Americans, environmentalists, animal rights activists, or women's groups, but they don't think twice about something that might offend Christians.” ThinkingMightChristianReligiousAnimalRightsGroupsIndustryNativeActivistAnimal RightsNative AmericanHomosexualEnvironmentalistThink TwiceMovie IndustryAnimal Rights Activists Book:The Spirit-Filled Family Source: The Spirit-Filled Family
“Would movie moguls release a film portraying Adolph Hitler as a great benefactor of the Jews? Hardly. Would they release a movie if the black community found it to be highly disparaging? No way. You better believe these executives would also think long and hard before they released a movie offensive to American Indians, Muslims homosexuals or virtually any affinity group. Yet, to most movie industries a film which offends millions of Christians is fine and dandy.” IfsThinkingWayBelieveLongHardChristianFilmFoundBlackCommunityReligiousMillionsGroupsFineIndustryJewReleaseExecutivesOffensiveHomosexualAmerican IndianAffinityPortrayingBlack CommunityBenefactorsDandyMovie IndustryMogulsDisparagingAdolph Hitler Author:Donald Wildmon
“The thing that I have been emphasizing in my own work for the last few years has been the group approach. To try to buy groups of stocks that meet some simple criterion for being undervalued-regardless of the industry and with very little attention to the individual company.” TryingYearsLittlesHas BeensLastsIndividualMy OwnSimpleAttentionCompanyGroupsIndustryApproachInvestingCriteriaUndervalued Author:Benjamin Graham
“There's a whole industry of conservatives saying, 'Ah, it's those damn liberals,' and a whole group of liberals saying, 'It's all those damn conservatives.'.” WholeGroupsIndustryDamn Author:Peter Jennings
“The upper echelon of the movie industry is easier to deal with and the work is much easier to accomplish because of this generosity of spirit and confidence that they instill in the group around them.” SpiritDealsGroupsIndustryEasierAccomplishGenerosityInstillMovie IndustryGenerosity Of Spirit Author:John Travolta
“I'm part of an industry that everybody wants to be a part of. I do hang out with a lot of sort of powerful, interesting people like Bella Freud or Jay Joplin or Tracey Emin. I'm part of that group of people. Brit artists who are doing things. That's what I do. Some of them happen to be aristocrats.” PeopleWantHappensArtistInterestingPowerfulGroupsIndustryHanging OutBrits Author:Duncan Roy
“If you look at all the lobbyists in Washington, this is not a democracy. This is ruled by special interest groups. That includes the military, the pharmaceutical industry, the people who produce mechanized debt, GMO foods. We are prisoners.” PeopleIfsLooksInterestDemocracyGroupsSpecialMilitaryProduceIndustryDebtPrisonerSpecial InterestsLobbyistsPharmaceuticalInterest GroupsGmosPharmaceutical IndustrySpecial Interest GroupsGmo Foods Author:Deepak Chopra
“Economist and Africa expert Collier analyzes why a group of 50 nations, home to the poorest one billion people, are failing. Considering issues such as civil war, dependence on extractive industries, and bad governance, he argues that the strongest industrialized countries must enact a plan to help with international policies and standards.” PeopleWarCountryHelpingHomeNationsIssuesPlansFailingGroupsPolicyIndustryStandardsInternationalArguingBillionsExpertsCivil WarStrongestConsideringDependenceEconomistGovernancePoorest Author:Amy Lockwood
“There's a pretty equitable distribution in the restaurant industry of how money gets paid, except for in the kitchen. The kitchen is the lowest-paid group of people.” PeopleGroupsIndustryPaidKitchenRestaurantsLowestDistributionEquitable Author:Mario Batali
“As a chef, I had started working with groups like Share Our Strength and various local food banks in New York, raising money for hunger-related issues. And not only me, but the entire restaurant industry has been very focused on this issue.” Has BeensIssuesGroupsShareNew YorkIndustryHungerVariousFocusedLocalsRelatedRestaurantsChefRaising MoneyFood BanksLocal Food Author:Tom Colicchio
“I was in bands as a singer-guitarist-songwriter until 1980-81. So, there's a bunch of stuff. A lot of the stuff is hard to come by-stuff by the Special Interest Group and the Zobo Funn Band. The Zobo Funn Band was a big Northeast cult band. We had about a billion skirmishes with the big rock industry.” HardBigsStuffInterestGroupsSpecialRocksIndustryBandSingersBillionsBunchSongwritersCultGuitaristSpecial InterestsInterest GroupsSpecial Interest Groups Author:David Torn