“Personally, I don't think the film and television industries are run as well as they used to be. Oh sure, we've got great digital effects now but... where are the visionaries?” ThinkingWellsRunningFilmUsedEffectsTelevisionIndustryUsed To BeDigitalVisionariesFilm And TelevisionTelevision Industry Author:Bill Mumy
“The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.” WorldWaySelfGovernmentRunningOrderIndividualInterestTheoryIndustryCivilizationAchievementCapitalismConstructsFree MarketSelf InterestAutomobileBureaucratsGreat AchievementAutomobile Industry Author:Milton Friedman
“His hypothesis goes to this - to make the common run of his readers fancy they can do all that can be done by genius, and to make the man of genius believe he can only do what is to be done by mechanical rules and systematic industry. This is not a very feasible scheme; nor is Sir Joshua sufficiently clear and explicit in his reasoning in support of it.” MenBelieveDoneRunningCan DoCommonSupportClearHe ManIndustryReaderGeniusFancyReasoningSchemesHypothesisSystematicExplicit Book:Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners Source: Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners
“Despite the Internet 's origin in the late 1960s as a government sponsored means of communication between the Department of Defense, private industry, and academia, it has been at its best and generated the greatest economic, social, and technological benefits since it was 'liberated' by the hordes of 'geeks' who were originally hired to run it by employers who were not themselves conversant with computers, and couldn't tell when their employees were exchanging official traffic or trading dirty jokes and recipes for marijuana brownies.” MeanHas BeensGovernmentRunningSocialEconomicCommunicationIndustryInternetBenefitsComputerLateJokesDefenseDespiteDirtyOfficialsDepartmentEmployeeMarijuanaTrafficTechnologicalRecipesTradingGeekEmployers1960sLiberatedAcademiaHordeExchangingBrowniesMeans Of CommunicationDirty Jokes Author:L. Neil Smith
“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
“The fact that ACPI was designed by a group of monkeys high on LSD, and is some of the worst designs in the industry obviously makes running it at any point pretty damn ugly.” FactsRunningGroupsWorstDesignIndustryUglyDamnMonkeysLsd Author:Linus Torvalds
“Questions are not happenstance thoughts nor are questions common problems of today which one picks up from hearsay and booklearning and decks out with a gesture of profundity questions grow out of confrontation with the subject matter and the subject matter is there only where eyes are, it is in this manner that questions will be posed and all the more considering that questions that have today fallen out of fashion in the great industry of problems. One stands up for nothing more than the normal running of the industry. Philosophy interprets its corruption as the resurrection of metaphysics.” MatterPhilosophyProblemEyeRunningTodayGrowsCommonSubjectsFashionIndustryNormalPicksCorruptionFallenResurrectionGesturesConsideringMetaphysicsConfrontationSubject MatterDeckProfundityHappenstanceHearsay Author:Martin Heidegger
“We have a problem with women in leadership across the board. This leadership gap - this problem of not enough women in leadership - is running really deep and it's in every industry. My answer is we have to understand the stereotype assumptions that hold women back.” EnoughProblemRunningAnswersIndustryBoardsAssumptionGapsStereotypeOld WomanReally DeepWomen Leadership Author:Sheryl Sandberg
“I try my hardest to push the point that I am a feminist. I really think it's important that people know that the women in this industry are empowered. They run it, man. It's awesome.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMenTryingImportantRunningIndustryFeministHardestEmpowered Author:Jenna Jameson
“As a writer, being produced and getting credits is essential: it's like being a horse running a race - and if the movie is a success, then your horse won and people were right to bet on it. From my experience, and a lot of others have done it, it's the best way to start out in the industry and get recognition, which will then get you more work, and later on will allow you to do your own movies.” PeopleIfsWayDoneRunningRaceIndustryEssentialsHorseCreditBest WayRecognitionRunning Race Author:Matthew Jacobs
“I've had a great run with great projects. I love the film industry. It keeps you young; it really does.” DoeRunningFilmYoungIndustryProjectsFilm Industry Author:Kellan Lutz
“The film industry is a great industry, with infinite possibilities for good and bad. Its primary purpose is to entertain people. On the side, it can do many other things. It can popularize certain ideals, it can make education palatable. But in the long run, the judge who decides whether what it does is good or bad is the man or woman who attends the movies.” PeopleMenLongDoeRunningFilmPurposeCertainSidesCan DoPossibilityHe ManJudgingIndustryIdealsInfinitePrimariesLong RunsGood And BadFilm IndustryInfinite Possibilities Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
“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
“The oil industry is hardly free to operate as efficiently as it could or to be as responsive to consumer demands as it would like. It has become, in essence, a quasi-state-run enterprise, because it cannot drill, transport, refine, and store fuel without receiving government permission, complying with government regulations, and paying taxes at every level or production.” StatesGovernmentRunningLevelsIndustryDemandTaxesEssenceProductionsOilStoresConsumersFuelEnterpriseReceivingRegulationPermissionTransportDrillsGovernment RegulationPaying TaxesOil IndustryComplying Book:Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto Source: Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto
“Imagine a senator running for president whose positions included halving the military budget, socializing the medical system, re-regulating the communications and electrical industries, establishing a guaranteed minimum income for all Americans, and equalizing funding for all schools regardless of property valuations - and who promised to fire Alan Greenspan, counseled withdrawal from the World Trade Organization, and, for good measure, spoke warmly of adolescent sexual experimentation. That was Barry Goldwater, conservative.” WorldRunningSchoolPresidentFireImagineMilitaryPositionCommunicationIndustryOrganizationTradePropertyConservativeMedicalIncomeBudgetsSpokesMinimumSenatorsFundingElectricalExperimentationWithdrawalWorld TradeSocializingValuationMilitary BudgetWorld Trade Organization Author:Rick Perlstein
“I was an advocate of the deregulation movement and I made - along with a lot of other smart people - a fundamental mistake. The financial industry undergirded the entire economy and if it is made riskier by deregulation and collapses in widespread bankruptcies as what happened in 2008, the entire economy freezes because it runs on credit.” PeopleIfsMadeRunningMistakeEconomyHappenedMovementIndustrySmartFundamentalsFinancialCreditCollapseFreezeBankruptcySmart PeopleDeregulation Author:Bill O'Reilly
“I was an advocate of the deregulation movement and I made - along with a lot of other smart people - a fundamental mistake, which is that deregulation works fine in industries which do not pervade the economy. The financial industry undergirded the entire economy and if it is made riskier by deregulation and collapses in widespread bankruptcies as what happened in 2008, the entire economy freezes because it runs on credit.” PeopleIfsMadeSaidRunningMistakeEconomyHappenedMovementFineIndustrySmartFundamentalsFinancialAppearanceCreditCollapseFreezeViewpointsBankruptcySmart PeopleDeregulation Author:Richard Posner
“Basically, this industry is mostly run by men, and I think women have a harder time...I've had enough of the "Women in Rock" issues of magazines and all of that. There's no reason why we should have our own separate little genre; that's just ridiculous. Besides, what is the genre? I certainly don't fit into the whole "Lilith" thing (thank God), but I am a female musician. And there are enough other great females in music that don't have to fit into it, either.” ThinkingMenShouldLittlesReasonEnoughWholeRunningIssuesRocksIndustryFitMusicianFemaleShould HaveHarderRidiculousMagazinesGenreReason WhyNo ReasonThank GodHad EnoughLilithGreat FemaleFemale Musicians Author:Princess Superstar
“Stakeholders - meaning workers and community - the CEO could just as well be responsible to them. This presupposes there ought to be management but why does there have to be management? Why not have the stakeholders run the industry?” WellsDoeRunningCommunityIndustryOughtResponsibleManagementWorkersWhy NotCeoBeing ResponsibleStakeholder Author:Noam Chomsky
“I was lucky enough to build on the work of a number of people who had already run laps around this theory-building track. The original classification scheme, years ago, distinguished radical from incremental change. The theory said that established firms managed incremental change well, but would be expected to founder when their industry encountered a radical change.” PeopleYearsWellsSaidEnoughWould BeRunningNumbersBuildingTheoryIndustryLuckyYears AgoOriginalsTrackExpectedRadicalFirmSchemesFoundersLapDistinguishedClassificationRadical ChangeIncremental Change Author:Clayton Christensen
“My belief that the publishing industry is run by prigs and cowards dates back to many years before I even had the idea for the book.” YearsBookIdeasRunningBeliefIndustryCowardPublishingPublishing Industry Author:Jessa Crispin
“Just women who are really eclectic, so every woman from Gwyneth Paltrow to Peggy Nolan, who has half a shaved head and has a totally wild aesthetic. They're woman who are doing things, running their own businesses, taking chances at different levels of success and different industries. A lot of my friends are creatives. It was just who I really adore and wanted to share with a greater audience.” DifferentRunningWantedChanceLevelsHalfAudienceGreaterShareIndustryMy FriendsAestheticAdoreTake A ChanceOwn BusinessDifferent LevelsEclecticNolanShaved Head Author:Sophia Amoruso