“I applied for three jobs in record companies and was offered all of them. I took the most glamorous-sounding job in the promotions department and it began my love affair with the music industry.” JobsThreeCompanyRecordsIndustryAffairDepartmentPromotionGlamorousLove AffairMusic IndustryRecord Companies Author:Nicki Chapman
“It's not about charisma and personality, it's about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple and outside of Apple are getting more excited about the company and what Apple stands for and what its potential is to contribute to the industry.” PeopleResultsCompanyProductsPersonalityIndustryExcitedApplesCharismaBedrock Author:Steve Jobs
“One of the central flaws in the state of contemporary music is that the major record companies have failed to incorporate that simple fact into their business plans. They've come into an industry that's based on idiosyncratic artists and tried to erase every idiosyncratic aspect out of it.” StatesFactsArtistSimpleCompanyRecordsPlansIndustryMajorsMusic IsAspectContemporaryFlawsEraseRecord CompaniesBusiness PlanContemporary Music Author:Moby
“Look at what I am proposing, and we [wih Bernie Sanders] have a vigorous agreement here. We both want to reign in the excesses of Wall Street. I also want to reign in the excesses of Johnson Controls that we bailed out when they were an autoparts company, and we saved the auto industry, and now they want to avoid paying taxes.” WantLooksCompanyStreetsWallIndustryTaxesSavedAgreementExcessReignJohnsonVigorousPaying TaxesAuto Industry Author:Hillary Clinton
“Let's take energy, for instance. I understand that in some industries, the input cost of energy is a major factor in whether an industry is going to locate in the United States or go elsewhere. So, when, at Bain Capital, we started a new steel company called Steel Dynamics in Indiana, the cost of energy was a very important factor to the success of that enterprise.” ImportantStatesEnergyUnitedCompanyUnited StatesIndustryCostMajorsFactorsInstanceEnterpriseElsewhereSteelInputDynamicsIndiana Author:Mitt Romney
“In the space business, space had gotten very much to be the aerospace industry. This is something that governments only do and it's where the Boeings and the Lockheed's and the Northrop's and so forth. And there's no way these small companies could do it.” WayGovernmentSpaceCompanyIndustryBoeingAerospace Author:Peter Diamandis
“What won't work - what can't work - is to act like the last years never happened, and that the survival of the [mass media] industry will be found by hiding content behind walled gardens. Instead of sticking their finger in the dike, trying to hold back the flow of innovation, companies need to ride the rapids of progress and seize the opportunities it provides.” NeedsTryingYearsLastsFoundOpportunityBehindsCompanyProgressHappenedMediaIndustrySurvivalMassGardenFlowInnovationFingersHidingLast YearRapidsMass Media Author:Arianna Huffington
“Oil now, as a result of the Saudi production, is priced so low that there are not going to be new fracking investments made. A lot of companies that have gone into fracking are heavily debt-leveraged, and are beginning to default on their loans. The next wave of defaults that banks are talking about is probably going to be in the fracking industry. When the costs of production are so much more than they can end up getting for the oil, they just stop producing and stop paying their loans.” MadeEndsNextResultsCompanyTalkingGoneIndustryCostLowsInvestmentWaveProductionsDebtOilLoanDefaultSaudisFracking Author:Michael Hudson
“I think the music industry, for instance, is such a huge, multibazillion-dollar industry and it's become very, very savvy. There's a very short grace period in which actual human rebellion or resistance can thrive before it's co-opted by these huge companies. And all of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it's part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general.” ThinkingHumansCultureCompanyGraceOur LivesYouthHugeIndustryPeriodsDollarsRateResistanceInstanceCorporateThese DaysThriveRebellionMusic IndustryFuriousSavvyParcelEncroachmentYouth Culture Author:Ani DiFranco
“By making marijuana illegal, the agricultural people can't grab hold of it like they did with corn and wheat. So those companies are scrambling around trying to get hold of it, but they can't, because it's a cottage industry, and it will always be a cottage industry. Because the minute the big companies try to make it their own, like they did with soybeans...like Monsanto, they put their own patent on seeds, and you can't do that with marijuana.” PeopleTryingBigsCompanyMinutesIndustrySeedsIllegalMarijuanaCornWheatPatentsCottagesBig CompaniesSoybeansMonsanto Author:Tommy Chong
“This is sort of the epitome of the economic elite that is converging with a political elite. It's not only the banks and insurance companies. It's the war industry and private prisons. Certainly the fossil fuel agencies. It's not only that they're supporting this campaign, they're supporters of the Clinton Foundation. And where the Clinton Foundation ends and Hillary's [Clinton] political actions begin, that too is quite troubling.” WarEndsActionPoliticalCompanyEconomicIndustryFoundationPrisonClintonCampaignsAgencyFuelElitesSupporterFossilsFossil FuelInsurance CompaniesEpitomePolitical ActionPrivate Prisons Author:Jill Stein
“You cannot be a party which takes money from Wall Street, which is not strong on the pharmaceutical industry, which is ripping us off every day, which is not strong on health care in taking on the insurance companies, which has not shown a desire to stand up and fight the economic establishment, and then tell working families that you are on their side. People see through that.” PeopleCareDesireFightingStrongSidesPartyCompanyEconomicStreetsWallIndustryHealth CareEstablishmentInsurance CompaniesPharmaceuticalNot StrongPharmaceutical Industry Author:Bernie Sanders
“There's no question that to some extent there are structural disadvantages built in, not just for women but for other minority groups who don't hold power at the executive level either at the company or in the industry. My position is not just "Oh, okay, anyone can overcome those." It's just as we work to get more women and people in minority groups at higher levels in positions of power, what are our options?” PeopleLevelsCompanyGroupsPositionIndustryHigherBuiltOkayOvercomingMinoritiesExecutivesDisadvantagesHigher LevelPosition Of PowerMinority Groups Author:Megyn Kelly
“If you look for instance at the automobile industry, part of the reason that you have the expansion of that sector, is precisely because we have gone out to talk to the automobile companies to explain government policy with regard to that sector, to talk to them about the MIDP and things like that. And indeed, it has been a very important part of attracting those investors to put in money in the South African economy and build motorcars in South Africa.” IfsLooksHas BeensImportantReasonGovernmentCompanyEconomyGonePolicyIndustryRegardSouthInstanceInvestorsSouth AfricaExpansionAutomobileGovernment PolicyAutomobile Industry Author:Thabo Mbeki
“If you look at the Company Register, maybe that's what we should say to that business consultant or analyst. If you look at the Company Register with the Department of Trade and Industry, one of the remarkable things that you will see over the last few years is, in fact, the growth of small and medium business, many of whom depend on these services to succeed.” IfsShouldYearsLooksFactsLastsGrowthCompanyDependsIndustrySucceedTradeMediumsDepartmentRemarkableRegisterAnalystsConsultants Author:Thabo Mbeki
“The industry financial advisers, on average about 85% male, tends to be a more mature financial adviser - so I think in their 50s, really. For so many companies, in their 60s. In fact, there is one company that was telling me they had more financial advisers over the age of 80 than under the age of 30.” ThinkingFactsAgeCompanyIndustryMalesFinancialAverageMatureAdviser Author:Sallie Krawcheck
“I had very good bosses, very good companies for which I worked. I worked in industries where the results really mattered; it wasn't the perception of results, it was just the facts.” FactsResultsCompanyIndustryPerceptionVery GoodBossGood CompanyGood Boss Author:Sallie Krawcheck