Home / Topics / Industry Quotes

Industry Quotes

Browse 3969 quotes about Industry.

Industry Quotes

“It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. The true object of juvenile education, is to provide, against the age of five and twenty, a mind well regulated, active, and prepared to learn. Whatever will inspire habits of industry and observation, will sufficiently answer this purpose.”

Mind Wells Children Age Purpose Answers Five One Thing Objects Inspire Industry Habit Importance Twenties Prepared Active Observation Juvenile

Book:The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature. In a Series of Essays

Source: The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature. In a Series of Essays

“It is a popular error that bureaucracy is less flexible than private enterprise. It may be so in detail, but when large scale adaptations have to be made, central control is far more flexible. It may take two months to get an answer to a letter from a government department, but it takes twenty years for an industry under private enterprise to readjust itself to a fall in demand.”

Source: Contributions to Modern Economics

“If you are hired to shake up the system, do it. No one will believe you're the boss until you do one or more of the following: 1. Add a new division; 2. Lop off a present department; 3. Add new people or reassign and reward present employees; 4. Get rid of deadwood; 5. Change the method of accounting; 6. Change lawyers, accountants, or other outside services; 7. Ask a lot of questions, and demand answers by a certain date; 8. Get in touch with key people in your industry or city and arrange personal meetings; 9. Improve working conditions; 10. Update present benefit plans.”

“With such compelling information, the question is why havent we been able to do more to prevent the crisis of underage drinking? The answer is: the alcohol industry.”

Able Answers Information Industry Crisis Drinking Alcohol Compelling Underage Drinking

Author:Lucille Roybal-Allard

“We have a problem with women in leadership across the board. This leadership gap - this problem of not enough women in leadership - is running really deep and it's in every industry. My answer is we have to understand the stereotype assumptions that hold women back.”

Enough Problem Running Answers Industry Boards Assumption Gaps Stereotype Old Woman Really Deep Women Leadership

Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“The only thing I wanted to accomplish was to finally get recognized by the music industry. If you know the awards, answer me this question: Do you see an award for soul music? No. They have R&B, funk, hip-hop and all sorts of contemporary things.”

Ifs Knows Soul Wanted Answers Industry Hip Hop Accomplish Contemporary Hips Hops Awards Music Industry Funk Music Soul

Author:Sharon Jones

“I'm sorry, I'm not very knowledgeable about the plastic model industry, so I can't answer that question. Unfortunately, I can't really make a statement on the plastic scale modeling kits, probably because I'd be eradicated from the industry if I made my true feelings known.”

Ifs Made I Can Feelings Answers Known Industry Models Sorry Scales Statements Plastic I'm Sorry Modeling Knowledgeable True Feelings

Author:Yoshiyuki Tomino

“Certainly, young children can begin to practice making letters and numbers and solving problems, but this should be done without workbooks. Young children need to learn initiative, autonomy, industry, and competence before they learn that answers can be right or wrong.”

Source: Miseducation: preschoolers at risk

“There are consequences to our insatiable demands for energy and there are no easy answers for how to capture that energy safely. But even more pressing, since we are currently using nuclear power across the country and the globe, nuclear power plants must be regulated, and we need to be certain that our regulatory bodies are not compromised by their relationships with industry.”

Needs Country Body Certain Energy Easy Answers Industry Demand Consequence Plant Nuclear Capture Globes Insatiable Nuclear Power Power Plants Easy Answers

Author:Ivy Meeropol

“The answer is navigation, manipulation, and implementation of more sophisticated intelligence. The idea that a robot will become more aware of its environment, that telling it to "go to the kitchen" means something - navigation and understanding of the environment is a robot problem. Those are the technological frontiers of the robotics industry.”

Mean Ideas Problem Understanding Answers Environment Industry Kitchen Manipulation Sophisticated Technological Robots Frontiers Robotics Implementation Navigation

Author:Colin Angle

“The cosmetics industry has much to answer for. It's a multi-million- pound confidence trick based on giving women endless hope, courtesy of overpriced little pots.”

Giving Littles Answers Millions Industry Tricks Endless Pounds Pot Courtesy Cosmetics

Author:Joan Collins

“I don't want to get myself in trouble - and I don't think I'm super important or anything - but I think it's so funny that when you look at the business and the way that people make decisions in their lives, whether they're in art or music or they're in industry, they forget that being unique is the answer.”

People Thinking Way Want Looks Art Important Decision Answers Forget Trouble Industry Unique Being Unique

Author:Justin Vernon

“With living wage jobs, basically 20 million of them to help jump-start a sustainable and healthy economy, with an insured, just transition, for example, for workers in both the fossil fuel and in the weapons industry, because they all need to transition to sustainable forms of production. This is also our answer to the departure of manufacturing jobs and good jobs by creating the manufacturing base here for clean renewable energy and the efficiency systems and public transportation to put these workers to work in jobs that are actually good for them.”