“Tourism as a number-one industry is a terrible, terrible idea for any city, especially New York. If you were going to turn a city, which is a place where people live, into a tourist attraction, you're going to have to make it a place that people who don't live here, like. So I object to living in a place for people who don't live here.” PeopleIfsIdeasTurnsNumbersCitiesNew YorkObjectsIndustryTerribleAttractionTouristsTourism Author:Fran Lebowitz
“Make sure you meet the right people, people who know that industry and are willing to help you. Do your homework - read books about the industry, talk to people. If you don't know something, ask.” PeopleIfsKnowsBookHelpingAsksWillingIndustryHomework Author:Anwar Robinson
“This whole theory [of John Law and Jean Terrasson], as dear to French financial schemers in the eighteenth century as to American "Greenbackers" in the nineteenth, had resulted, under the Orleans Regency and Louis XV, in ruin to France financially and morally, had culminated in the utter destruction of all prosperity, the rooting out of great numbers of the most important industries, and the grinding down of the working people even to starvation.” PeopleImportantWholeLawNumbersCenturyTheoryIndustryDestructionFinancialDearProsperityRuinsFranceStarvation Author:Andrew Dickson White
“Today the courts are choked with lawsuits brought by people against the New King. When they sue each other as a result of an automobile accident they in fact sue the King, for both parties are likely insured. Steadily the courts have become clearing-houses for the insurance industry.” PeopleFactsTodayHouseResultsPartyIndustryKingsCourtAccidentsAutomobileClearingLawsuit Author:Gerry Spence
“People ask me, "What are you going to do to develop jobs in your state?" Well, that's not my job as a US senator to bring industry to the state. That's the lieutenant governor's job, that's your state senators' and assemblymen's job. That's your secretary of state's job, to make a climate in the state that says, 'Y'all come.'” PeopleWellsStatesJobsAsksIndustryClimateAsk MeGovernorsSecretarySenatorsLieutenants Author:Sharron Angle
“Why nationalize industry when you can nationalize the people?” PeopleIndustryFascism Author:Adolf Hitler
“But at some point, you know that - you know what poem keeps going through my mind is, "first they came for the Jews." People, all of us, are like, "Well, this news doesn't really affect me." "Well, I'm not a bondholder." "Well, I'm not in the banking industry." "Well, I'm not a big CEO." "Well, I'm not on Wall Street." "Well, I'm not a car dealer." "I'm not an auto worker." Gang, at some point, they're going to come for you!” PeopleKnowsMindFirstsWellsBigsStreetsCarWallIndustryNewsWorkersJewKeep GoingCeoBankingGangDealerCar Dealer Author:Glenn Beck
“You know, when I was in college, there was a big debate: Do unions raise wages? Well, with regard to industrial unions, there were arguments back and forth -- international competition. It is now clear, I think, that whether or not you think unions raised wages 50 years ago, the absence of unions and their weakness that is inflicted by anti-union public policy depresses wages. The fact is that people who are not represented, in the service industries in particular, are the victims of policies which depress their wages.” PeopleThinkingKnowsYearsWellsFactsBigsClearPolicyCollegeParticularIndustryWeaknessYears AgoArgumentRegardRaisesVictimCompetitionUnionsRaisedInternationalAbsenceDebateDepressingWagesBack And ForthPublic PolicyService Industry Author:Barney Frank
“100,000 soldiers are reported to have died in the Iraqi war. If you count 100 relatives of each soldier, it means that practically there are millions of people who now have antagonism toward the white people of America. These Arab people will remember this country whose main religion is Christianity, who came and destroyed all Iraqi facilities and industry. They won't easily forget this.” PeopleIfsMeanWarCountryAmericaRememberWhiteForgetChristianityMillionsIndustryDiedSoldierDestroyedFacilityAntagonism Author:Sun Myung Moon
“If we truly want an innovative and creative renewable fuel industry, then it needs to be challenged. And if we create a set of protections that allow it to not be as creative and innovative as possible, then we aren't doing a service to the industry or to the people of this country.” PeopleIfsWantNeedsCountryEnergyCreativeIndustryProtectionFuelInnovativeAlternative Energy Author:Tom Vilsack
“These people also tended to pretend to care deeply about the blind and otherwise disabled. I am sympathetic to the needs of those users, but I can't help but think that those who claimed to speak for the blind were being more than a little disingenuous, just like those Hemp people who present their arguments in terms of their deep and abiding care for the textile industry, when their real motives are ... something else entirely.” PeopleThinkingNeedsLittlesI CanRealHelpingCareSpeakTermIndustryArgumentBlindMotiveUsersAbidingDisabledSympatheticHempTextilesDisingenuous Author:Jamie Zawinski
“I'm convinced that business success in the future starts with the question, What should I do with my life? Yes, that's right.... People don't succeed by migrating to a "hot" industry (one word: dotcom) or by adopting a particular career-guiding mantra (remember "horizontal careers"?). They thrive by focusing on the question of who they really are--and connecting that to work that they truly love (and, in so doing, unleashing a productive and creative power that they never imagined).” PeopleShouldRememberCareersCreativeParticularIndustrySucceedHotConvincedProductiveThriveShould IBusiness SuccessConnectingOne WordMantrasAdoptingCreative PowerHorizontalUnleashing Author:Po Bronson
“While the fashion industry may, at least at the top end, be thriving, the notion of fashion itself is becoming more and more meaningless. Any discipline in fashion has long since evaporated; the idea of a single fashionable skirt length, or heel height, is incomprehensible. The definition of the fashionable has become so skimpy that it refers not to the mode of dress of everyday people--the clothes that have sufficiently caught the popular imagination to be worn in a widespread manner--but only to the styles that momentarily excite members of the fashion caravan.” PeopleMayLongIdeasEndsImaginationFashionStyleIndustryBecomingDisciplineMembersClothesDressesNotionEverydayCaughtDefinitionsHeightLengthMeaninglessHeelsWornFashionableSkirtsBecoming MoreFashion IndustryCaravans Author:Rebecca Mead
“When private industry makes a mistake, it gets corrected and goes away. As governments make mistakes, it gets bigger, bigger and bigger and they make more, more and more because as they run out of money, they just ask for more and so they get rewarded for making mistakes. In the meantime that is exactly what we are doing by subsidizing companies which are failing, we have a reverse Darwinism, we've got survival of the unfittest, the companies and people that have made terrible mistakes are being rewarded and other people are being punished and being taxed.” PeopleMadeGovernmentRunningAsksMistakeCompanyFailingIndustryTerribleSurvivalBiggerMaking MistakesReverseDarwinism Author:Peter Schiff
“Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.” PeopleWantGovernmentSchoolIndustryEasierNormalScalesWho We AreProfitableFadingMarketersFading Away Author:Seth Godin
“The life insurance industry is filled with good people who believe in their work and their companies, but who may never have challenged the assumptions underlying their efforts.” PeopleBelieveMayEffortCompanyIndustryFilledAssumptionGood People Author:Andrew Tobias
“The industry cannot long offer unneeded or overpriced insurance if people will not buy it.” PeopleIfsLongIndustryOffers Author:Andrew Tobias
“I am surprised at all the people in the high-tech industry focused on "making money"... If that's all they want to do, they should have a $100 printing press in their basements and they will truly "make money." Instead, if we focus all that energy on innovation, we'll change the world for the best.” PeopleIfsWorldWantShouldEnergyFocusIndustryShould HaveInnovationPressesFocusedMaking MoneyChanging The WorldPrintingBasementsPrinting Press Author:Philippe Kahn
“Whenever Canada moves to protect its own industries and people, it is subjected to violent attacks in the U.S. Congress and to threats of economic retaliation.” PeopleMovingEconomicIndustryProtectThreatCongressViolentCanadaRetaliation Book:Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage Source: Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage
“The media, itself an arm of mega-corporate power, feeds the fear industry, so that people are primed like pumps to support wars on rumor, innuendo, legends, and lies.” PeopleWarLyingSupportMediaArmsIndustryCorporateLegendsRumorPumpsInnuendoMega Author:Mumia Abu-Jamal
“The greatest factors making for communism, socialism or anarchy among a free people are the excesses of capital. The talk of the agitator does not advance socialism one step. The great captains of industry and finance... are the chief makers of socialism.” PeopleDoeWisdomPoliticsStepsEconomyIndustrySocialismFactorsFinanceChiefsCommunismLiberalismMakersAnarchyExcessCaptainsCaptains Of Industry Author:Louis D. Brandeis
“Probably some of the projects I chose to do after that had more to do with what people thought of me. The industry was very open and probably hoping that I could do anything.” PeopleIndustryProjects Author:Bo Derek
“One of the things that I have seen change that warms the cockles of my heart is what is happening in the cosmetics industry. For years, they were doing horrible things to animals in the manufacture of cosmetics, and testing of the most barbaric types; today, if you go into a drugstore and go down the [cosmetics] aisle, look at how many of them say no animal testing. I've talked with people who work in the cosmetics departments, and they tell me, Without that, you can't sell them. And that's wonderful!” PeopleIfsYearsLooksHeartTodayAnimalWonderfulTypeIndustryMy HeartHappeningsSellsHorribleDepartmentTestingCosmeticsAisleHorrible ThingsBarbaricAnimal TestingCockles Author:Bob Barker
“I am aware that most people only see me as Shaq... the guy on the court. But there is another side to who I am, Shaquille O'Neal. And Shaquille O'Neal wants to explore every part of life. He wants the opportunity to pursue all of his desires. That includes being a part of the music industry as an MC. Music is and will always be a part of who I am.” PeopleWantDesireGuyOpportunitySidesIndustryBasketballMusic IsCourtWho I AmPursueMusic IndustryParts Of LifeShaq Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“In fine arts, when you make a painting, it's just a painting. But if you make a painting in the entertainment industry, it can be an album cover or a t-shirt or a logo. I like that entertainment has this usefulness - that it's ultimately trying to make a bunch of people feel something, and to think about life and be able to use things that were so simple and direct but potentially have a really powerful effect.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsTryingArtUseAbleSimplePowerfulEffectsPaintingFineIndustryDirectAlbumsEntertainmentBunchShirtsT ShirtUsefulnessFine ArtsEntertainment IndustryLogosReally PowerfulAlbum Covers Author:Andrew W.K.
“I think that the people who put caps and the people who put genres on music are the people who are killing our music industry.” PeopleThinkingIndustryKillingGenreCapsMusic Industry Author:Austin Carlile
“So for everything I do, I'm very clear about what I'm doing, and I tell people what it's about. They get a sense of what I'm thinking. I don't let people think I'm going to write something in praise in the meatpacking industry, and then they read it and it's actually attacking the meatpacking industry.” PeopleThinkingWritingClearIndustryPraiseAttacking Author:Eric Schlosser
“I guess if there's one thing that might surprise people about me, it's that I'm very obedient. I'm kind of like a dog. I look at acting as kind of a service industry. You're there to serve the writer and the director. I don't really look at it as an act of self-expression, like I'm going to say what's on my mind.” PeopleIfsMindLooksKindSelfMightActingOne ThingDogExpressionIndustryDirectorsSurpriseObedientSelf ExpressionService Industry Author:Michael Shannon
“There are good people in the lobbying industry. Lobbyists can serve a very useful purpose.” PeoplePurposeIndustryGood PeopleLobbyistsLobbying Author:Kevin Spacey
“I love my body as it is. People in the industry have been telling me to lose weight for years but I like the way I look. I give credit to my mom for helping me feel good about my appearance - for making sure I never felt embarrassed about my body, because she was never worried about looking too big.” PeopleWayGivingFeelsYearsLooksHas BeensHelpingBodyBigsFeltLosesMomIndustryWeightAppearanceMy MomCreditFeel GoodWorriedEmbarrassedLose Weight Author:Christina Hendricks
“This industry's so full of distractions: partying, drinking, sex, money. The priority for me is just to make music that people can connect with. I want to make something fresh that people may not understand” PeopleWantMaySexPartyIndustryDrinkingPrioritiesDistraction Author:Tinashe
“In a business that has exploited and ignored our people I have only found dead-ends. We need romantic comedies, gross-out and mockery comedies, horror and thrillers, teen movies and love-stories. All these and more will be a positive step towards the future of Native Americans in the world and film industry; an industry that that offers us not only the chance to play the parts of heroes, love interests and warriors, but also of villains, dorks and dangerous, brokenhearted products of circumstance.” PeopleWorldNeedsEndsPlayStoriesFilmFoundInterestChanceStepsComedyDangerousProductsIndustryHeroCircumstancesHorrorOffersAnd LoveLove StoryWarriorNativeVillainNative AmericanIgnoredGrossMockeryThrillersFilm IndustryDead EndsDorkBrokenheartedMovies And LoveFound Dead Author:Misty Upham
“While alcohol ... continues to wreak havoc in America, supported by a $6 billion-a-year alcohol industry advertising campaign extolling the joy of inebriation, the far less harmful drug of marijuana remains illegal and continues to ruin people's lives - only if they are caught possessing and convicted of that crime.” PeopleIfsYearsAmericaJoyCrimeIndustryDrugRemainsCaughtAlcoholBillionsCampaignsAdvertisingRuinsIllegalMarijuanaPossessingHavocInebriation Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“People see fashion as superficial and shallow, but it's actually not. As an industry it can really change how things happen and change trade for countries that really need it.” PeopleNeedsCountryHappensFashionIndustryTradeThings HappenShallowSuperficial Author:Ali Hewson
“I don't really have a style icon but I really admire the way people dress like Gaga, Rihanna and Gwen Stefani. It's good to be inspired by singers who write music and dress incredibly - rather than models and people in the fashion industry who dress immaculately anyway because it's their style.” PeopleWayWritingFashionStyleIndustryModelsDressesInspiredSingersAdmireIconsBe InspiredFashion IndustryGagaStyle Icons Author:Ellie Goulding
“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.” PeopleIfsBelieveCertainAsksAnswersCitiesPlansConditionsKeysIndustryDemandBenefitsMethodAddMeetingsRewardsFollowingLawyerDepartmentShakesEmployeeBossDivisionAccountingAccountantsUpdatesWorking Conditions Author:Lois Wyse
“In the emerging global economy, everything is mobile: capital, factories, even entire industries. The only resource that's really rooted in a nation--and the ultimate source of all its wealth--is its people.” PeopleNationsWealthEconomySourceIndustryResourcesUltimateFactoriesRootedMobileEmergingGlobal Economy Author:William J. Clinton
“I don't like being in the service industry and having to deal with people yelling at me all the time. McDonald's was the hardest job I ever had - so I have a lot of respect for people who work in the fast food industry. Because it's a hard job.” PeopleHardJobsDealsIndustryHardestYellingMcdonaldsFast FoodFood IndustryHardest JobService Industry Author:Kathleen Hanna
“To me the industry has always said that the lovers and haters and principal characters will always be white in Hollywood, and black people will always be appendages of those kinds of dramas, or they will be comedic outlets. It will never change.” PeopleKindSaidCharacterBlackWhiteIndustryLoversDramaHollywoodBlack PeoplePrincipalOutletsNever ChangeComedic Author:Haile Gerima
“Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the fear of poverty; and, indeed, it is a sore affliction; but, like all other ills that flesh is heir to, it has its antidote, its reliable remedy. The judicious application of industry, prudence and temperance is a certain cure.” PeopleWorldCertainPovertyTroubleThis WorldIndustryFleshCuresApplicationRemedyAfflictionPrudenceAntidoteHeirsTemperance Author:Hosea Ballou
“Agriculture is the soul and chief support of empires; industry produces riches and the happiness of the people; exportation represents the superabundance, and good use of both.” PeopleSoulUseNationsSupportProduceIndustryRichesChiefsEmpiresAgriculture Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“When industry people see something different they don't know what to do with it, so filmmakers who make films about women, they kind of fall through the cracks. If a woman filmmaker makes film about war, like [Kathryn] Bigelow, they say "Okay, this is a war film, it has ninety percent men in it, we know what to do with it." But then she still gets attacked for not doing it properly. [...] But even though it bothers me I don't want to dwell on the sex and gender thing.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenWantKindStillsDifferentWarFilmFallSexIndustryPercentOkayGenderBotherFilmmakerCracksNinetySex And Gender Author:Signe Baumane
“If you don't have an auto industry, you will not be secure as a nation because you won't have a backbone like manufacturing to be able to put people to work in producing the means to you keep you secure.” PeopleIfsMeanAbleNationsIndustrySecureManufacturingBackboneAuto Industry Author:Jennifer Granholm
“The whole awards thing is great. Why? Because the Golden Globes, the Academy Awards, they put a focus on the industry, and that focus translates into people buying tickets to see movies or download films, legitimately download them. And it keeps us all at work. So I'm a big fan of award shows.” PeopleWholeShowsBigsFilmFocusFansIndustryGoldenBuyingAwardsTranslateGlobesTicketsAcademyDownloadsAcademy AwardsAward Shows Author:Liam Neeson
“Most of us who got into film industry in early 2000s weren't prepared for the constant vigilance that being a celebrity requires, and there's no school for learning how to handle it well or gracefully. It's a hard thing to figure out. A lot of people don't deal with it well because they're either too paranoid or they're doing things they probably shouldn't be doing in public.” PeopleWellsHardSchoolFilmDealsFiguresIndustryConstantPreparedHandleParanoidHard ThingsFilm IndustryVigilance Author:Megan Fox
“The pervasive idea is that if you're a man in the fashion industry, you're gay until proven otherwise. And of course there are lots of men who aren't. But people make certain assumptions.” PeopleIfsMenIdeasCertainCoursesFashionIndustryGayAssumptionProvenFashion Industry Author:Tim Gunn
“The time has come for everybody -capitalists, communists, socialists- to ask themselves what 'civilization' really means. If not, whether a country calls itself capitalist or communists, in the pursuit of 'progress' , it will visit genocide either on its own people or on another people whose country must be plundered for resources to feed the Progress industry.” PeopleIfsMeanCountryAsksProgressIndustryCivilizationResourcesPursuitCommunistGenocideCapitalistReally Mean Author:Arundhati Roy
“The interesting thing about gay people is that you can't really put on a wedding without them. They're the ones who make your dress, and do the flowers and the catering. They've toiled in the wedding industry all these years but were never allowed to do it themselves.” PeopleYearsInterestingFlowerIndustryGayDressesInteresting ThingsGay PeopleCatering Author:David Sedaris
“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
“The supply of leaks is very large. It's helpful for us to have more people in this industry. It's protective to us.” PeopleIndustryHelpfulProtectiveLeaks Author:Julian Assange