“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
“A smart policy should be one that tends to receive the capitals, pays the price for that capital - which is the interest - returns the capital and in the end the factories, the industries, are left to remain in the country.” ShouldEndsCountryLeftInterestPayPolicyIndustryReturnSmartFactoriesPay The Price Author:Fidel Castro
“The retail industry has its own headache: it loses $16 billion a year to customers who buy clothes, wear them with the tags tucked in, and return these secondhand clothes for a full refund.” YearsLosesIndustryReturnClothesCustomersBillionsHeadacheTagRetailRefunds Author:Dan Ariely
“In our industry today only a strong company with a global reach can ensure long-term employment and provide acceptable returns for shareholders.” LongMotivationalTodayStrongTermCompanyIndustryReturnEmploymentLong TermAcceptableShareholders Author:Lakshmi
“The soil of Palestine still enjoys her sabbaths, and only waits for the return of her banished children, and the application of industry, commensurate with her agricultural capabilities, to burst once more into universal luxuriance, and be all that she ever was in the days of Solomon.” ChildrenStillsWaitingEnjoyIndustryReturnUniversalSoilApplicationCapabilityPalestineSabbathSolomon Author:John Lindsay
“I guess for major film industry players a film is a money making devise, so using formulas assures them that their investment will have returns. A lot of big studio films are created by formulas and committees, stripping away any individuality or personality from the work so that they could appeal to most everyone on there planet but to no one in particular.” BigsFilmPlayerParticularPlanetsPersonalityIndustryReturnMajorsInvestmentIndividualityStudiosMaking MoneyAppealsFormulasCommitteesFilm IndustryStrippingStripping Away Author:Signe Baumane
“When preparing your return, you should be sure to avoid common mistakes. The two most common taxpayer mistakes, states the IRS booklet, are (1) "failure to include a current address," and (2) "failure to be a large industry that gives humongous contributions to key tax-law-writing congresspersons."” GivingShouldWritingTwoStatesLawCommonMistakeKeysIndustryReturnTaxesCurrentsContributionAddressesPreparingTaxpayersIrs Book:The World According to Dave Barry Source: The World According to Dave Barry
“We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another. When you think for-profit and non-profit, you most often think of entities with either zero social return or zero return on capital and zero social return. Clearly, there's some opportunity in the spectrum between those extremes. What's missing is the for-profit finance industry coming in to that area. Look at the enormous diversity of the for-profit financial industry as opposed to monolithic nature of the non-profit world; it's quite astonishing.” ThinkingWorldNeedsLooksThreeOpportunitySocialCenturyMissingIndustryReturnDiversityAreasFinancialProfitExtremesEnormousFinanceZeroEntityReverseSpectrumAstonishingNon ProfitSocial Entrepreneurship Author:Bill Drayton
“I work in lockstep, hand in glove, with the prime minister on these issues, and as we are supportive to the Eurozone so they can sort their problems out, in return they introduce safeguards to ensure precisely what I said: that the single market is not fragmented and that important industries like the financial services industry are treated fairly. Not exceptional treatment, but are just simply treated fairly, on a level playing field within Europe.” SaidImportantProblemHandsLevelsIssuesFieldsIndustryReturnEuropeFinancialTreatedMinistersTreatmentPrimeIntroducingPrime MinisterSupportiveExceptionalGlovesPlaying FieldsFragmentedLevel Playing FieldEurozoneFinancial ServicesService Industry Author:Nick Clegg
“The key question facing those of us working in the media (old and new) is whether we embrace and adapt to the radical changes brought about by the Internet or pretend that we can somehow hop into a journalistic Way Back Machine and return to a past that no longer exists and can't be resurrected. There is no question that, as the industry moves forward and we figure out the new rules of the road, there will be - and needs to be - a great deal of experimentation with new revenue models.” WayNeedsPastMovingDealsMediaFiguresKeysIndustryReturnInternetModelsMachinesEmbraceMoving ForwardRadicalHopsRevenueExperimentationJournalisticRadical ChangeOld And New Author:Arianna Huffington