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“Our laws governing lobbying and campaign contributions have struck the right balance between the wishes of the people and those of private industry, so why are we so quick to doubt that the same great results can be achieved by putting the government's justice-dealing branch on the same market-based course?”

People Government Law Courses Wish Justice Results Doubt Industry Balance Campaigns Branches Contribution Governing Lobbying Great Results Campaign Contributions

Author:Thomas Frank

“Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.”

Important Cities Tree Land Industry Roots Branches Farmers Decline Agriculture

Author:Bernard Baruch

“England was nothing, compared to continental nations until she had become commercial... until about the middle of the last century, when a number of ingenious and inventive men, without apparent relation to each other, arose in various parts of the kingdom, succeeded in giving an immense impulse to all the branches of the national industry; the result of which has been a harvest of wealth and prosperity, perhaps without a parallel in the history of the world.”

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

Industry Productions Branches

Book:The Theory of Political Economy

Source: The Theory of Political Economy

“In democratic countries as well as elsewhere most of the branches of productive industry are carried on at a small cost by men little removed by their wealth or education above the level of those whom they employ.”

Men Wells Littles Country Politics Wealth Levels Economy Industry Cost Democratic Branches Liberalism Productive Elsewhere Democratic Country

Book:Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II

Source: Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II

“I have fashion designers that I definitely respect. After working for a few years in the industry, you want to branch out and do your own thing and I think that's something that has always been important to me is strengthening the brand and just sticking to "this is who we are, this is our identity, this is who we're going to be". I definitely respect other designers but I don't necessarily have one that I look up to.”

Thinking Want Years Looks Important Fashion Identity Industry Brands Designer Branches Look Up Who We Are Respecting Others Strengthening Fashion Designer

Author:Lauren Conrad

“The superiority...enjoyed by nations that have...perfected a branch of industry, constitutes a...formidable obstacle.”

Nations Industry Obstacles Enjoyed Branches Superiority Formidable

Author:Alexander Hamilton

“The bad workmen who form the majority of the operatives in many branches of industry are decidedly of opinion that bad workmen ought to receive the same wages as good.”

Form Work Opinion Industry Ought Majority Branches Good Work Wages Workmen

Book:On Liberty: Mill's Works

Source: On Liberty: Mill's Works

“The majority of America's colossal fortunes have been made by entering industries in their early stages and developing leadership in them.... Think of what opportunities the present and the future contain in such fields as ship-building and ship-owning, aircraft, electrical development, the oil industry, different branches of the automotive industry, foreign trade, international banking, invention, the chemical industry, moving pictures, color photography, and, one night add, labor leadership.”

“Based on technological research and the transformation of nature, industrialization constantly goes forward, giving proof of incessant creativity. While certain enterprises develop and are concentrated, others die or change their location. Thus new social problems are created: professional or regional unemployment, redeployment and mobility of persons, permanent adaptation of workers and disparity of conditions in the different branches of industry.”

“In food, issues that surround purchasing and that whole realm have a very political component and they branch into stories that can be really compelling. Just being on the farm, interacting with all these people in the industry, leads to personal narratives that can be used to make a larger point.”

People Whole Stories Political Used Issues Industry Narrative Realms Branches Surround Farms Compelling Just Being Components Interacting Purchasing

Author:Dan Barber

“If the present tax rates had been in effect from the beginning of our century, many who are millionaires today would live under more modest circumstances. But all those new branches of industry which supply the masses with articles unheard of before, would operate, if at all, on a much smaller scale, and their products would be beyond the reach of the common man.”

Source: Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses

“I firmly believe that digitalization has only just begun in China. In addition to the taxi, transport, shopping and hotel businesses, many other industries will follow: education, health care, administration, even the legal branch - everything, really. There is still a lot of opportunity in China for the inventive and ambitious ones.”

Believe Stills Care Opportunity Industry China Administration Health Care Branches Hotel Shopping Ambitious Transport Taxi

Author:Zhang Xin