“When regulations on the housing industry are reasonable, the cost of housing goes down. Regulatory relief is needed to make housing more affordable to more Americans.” IndustryNeededCostReasonableReliefRegulationHousingAffordable Author:Randy Neugebauer
“The people of the United States don't recognize it, but the oil industry has given the greatest gift to the people of the nation, and that gift is the low cost of energy. Bottom line is this enables the country to be very competitive manufacturing-wise and in the world economy.” PeopleWorldCountryStatesEnergyGivenNationsLinesUnitedUnited StatesEconomyWiseIndustryCostLowsBottomOilBottom LineManufacturingGreatest GiftsWorld EconomyOil Industry Author:Ray L. Hunt
“Even if there were no illegal copying, the advent of digital distribution will put a lot of stress on the movie and music industry. When the distribution costs comes down, that puts more price pressure on the rest of the cost.” IfsIndustryCostStressPressureDigitalIllegalDistributionMusic IndustryAdventCopyingMovies And Music Author:Edward Felten
“Now, wages in the automobile industry are made up of two components, what we call base rates and the cost of living factor which is fed in by the operation of the escalator.” MadeTwoIndustryCostRateFactorsOperationsFedsWagesComponentsAutomobileCost Of LivingEscalatorsAutomobile Industry Author:Leonard Woodcock
“Oil is once again robbing the industry of a return to profitability. Cost reductions and efficiency gains have never been more critical.” IndustryReturnCostGainsCriticalOilEfficiencyReductionRobbingProfitability Author:Giovanni Bisignani
“It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.” IndustryCostDollarsErasSilent Spring Book:Silent Spring Source: Silent Spring
“The Internet will not become a money machine until the banking industry figures out how to transfer money for free so you can charge USD 0.005 (half a cent) for some simple service like, say, reading a newspaper article you have searched for. With today's payment system, the cost of the transfer of the funds completely dwarf the cost of the service paid for. ... This situation, however, is what acutely prevents the Internet from taking off as a network for paid services.” TodayReadingSimpleHalfSituationFiguresIndustryInternetCostMachinesPaidNewspapersFundArticlesCentsBankingPaymentTransfersDwarfsDwarves Author:Erik Naggum
“In short: Readily available low-cost life insurance would be a threat to the industry, and whatever threatens the life insurance industry threatens America.” Would BeAmericaIndustryCostLowsThreatAvailable Author:Andrew Tobias
“Thus a new way of finding fluidity will inevitably be imposed on management and labor alike. The profit-sharing, or "progress" sharing union contract is the only possible way of satisfying labor and the consumer without saddling industry with fixed costs that in depression periods can kill off marginal companies like flies.” WayWisdomPoliticsCompanyEconomyProgressIndustryPeriodsCostFindingsLaborManagementUnionsProfitConsumersFixedLiberalismContractsSatisfyingNew WaysFluidityProfit Sharing Author:John Chamberlain
“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.” MenWellsLittlesCountryPoliticsWealthLevelsEconomyIndustryCostDemocraticBranchesLiberalismProductiveElsewhereDemocratic 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
“In the course of waging that war, the people of Canada had shown that it was possible for them to maintain nearly a million men in uniform and at the same time expand all the facilities for production within Canada at an unprecedented speed, including building industries which had never existed in Canada before... and by and large the cost of production in Canada compared favourable with the cost of production anywhere else among the Allies... All of this was accomplished without any foreign investment, without and foreign loans... We were quite capable of self-development.” PeopleMenWarSelfCoursesMillionsBuildingDevelopmentIndustryCostCapableInvestmentIncludingProductionsSpeedAccomplishedCanadaAlliesUniformsSelf DevelopmentLoanFacilityUnprecedented Author:Tim Buck
“I would ask: Given the nature of free-market capitalism - where the rule is to rise to the top at all costs - is it possible to have a financial industry hero? And by the way, this is not a pop-culture trend we're talking about. There aren't many financial heroes in literature, theater or cinema.” WayCultureAsksLiteratureGivenTalkingIndustryHeroCostCapitalismTheaterFinancialPopsCinemaTrendsFree MarketPop CultureFree Market Capitalism Author:Martin Scorsese
“It doesn't matter much where your company sits in its industry ecosystem, nor how vertically or horizontally integrated it is - what matters is its relative 'share of customer value' in the final product or solution, and its cost of producing that value.” MatterValuesCompanyShareProductsIndustryCostSolutionsFinalsEducationalCustomersRelativeWhat MattersIntegratedEcosystems Author:Gary Hamel
“The best way in my view is to just buy a low-cost index fund and keep buying it regularly over time, because you'll be buying into a wonderful industry, which in effect is all of American industry... People ought to sit back and relax and keep accumulating over time.” PeopleWayViewsWonderfulEffectsIndustryOughtCostLowsInvestingBest WayBuyingRelaxFundIndex Funds Author:Warren Buffett
“The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.” IfsSidesFashionIndustryCostPhotographerCoatsObsceneFashion IndustryPhoto Shoots Author:Carine Roitfeld
“If we are really serious about protecting the environment, the discharge pipes and stacks of industry would all plug directly into their intake side, and costs would not be externalized to a voiceless environment.” IfsSidesEnvironmentSeriousIndustryCostEnvironmentalPollutionPipePlugsDischargeVoiceless Author:Wes Jackson
“Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups.” CareStupidIndustryInternetCostEntrepreneurEdgesHealth CareBluntAuto IndustryHealth Care Costs Author:Tom Allen
“If you want to survive in the film industry, it's not about fighting for your visions because that's a given. It's thinking about how much is your vision going to cost, and then, what are the consequences, because you may have $100 million, but the reality is that $100 million needs to make $500 million to be a success.” IfsThinkingWantNeedsMayRealityFilmFightingGivenVisionMillionsIndustryCostConsequenceFilm Industry Author:Cliff Martinez
“The overarching goal of Tesla is to help reduce carbon emissions and that means low cost and high volume. We will also serve as an example to the auto industry, proving that the technology really works and customers want to buy electric vehicles.” WantMeanHelpingGoalTechnologyExampleIndustryCostProveLowsCustomersVehicleElectricVolumeCarbonEmissionsTeslaCarbon EmissionsAuto IndustryElectric Vehicles Author:Elon Musk
“Subsidies for the oil, gas and coal industries are projected to cost taxpayers more than $135 billion in the coming decade. At a time when scientists tell us we need to reduce carbon pollution to prevent catastrophic climate change, it is absurd to provide massive subsidies that pad fossil-fuel companies' already enormous profits.” NeedsCompanyIndustryCostScientistClimateClimate ChangeProfitOilDecadesBillionsEnormousAbsurdFuelGasMassivePollutionCarbonCoalFossilsTaxpayersFossil FuelPadsSubsidies Author:Bernie Sanders
“The fossil fuel industry for too long has shifted enormous costs of carbon pollution onto the public.” LongIndustryCostEnormousFuelPollutionCarbonFossilsFossil Fuel Author:Bernie Sanders
“Virtually everything that the government does costs more than when the same thing is done in private industry - whether it is building housing, running prisons, collecting garbage, or innumerable other things. Why in the world would we imagine that health care would be the exception?” WorldDoeDoneGovernmentWould BeCareRunningImagineBuildingIndustryCostPrisonHealth CareExceptionImagine ThatGarbageHousingCollecting Author:Thomas Sowell
“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
“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
“Gambling interests hire lots of economists to do impact studies, but what you need is cost-benefit analysis, and you'll never see the industry finance those” NeedsInterestStudyIndustryCostBenefitsImpactFinanceAnalysisGamblingEconomistCost Benefit Analysis Author:John Warren Kindt