“From the industry's point of view, the problem is not that coal companies blast the top off mountains, turning the area into a moonscape and polluting the air and releasing toxic chemical into what's left of the local streams and aquifers. It's that the people who live near the mines are too cozy with their cousins.” PeopleProblemLeftViewsCompanyAirMinesIndustryMountainAreasPoint Of ViewLocalsStreamsChemicalsToxicCoalCousinBlastCozyToxic ChemicalsAquifers Author:Jeff Goodell
“The Bobbit case, which brought to life the ancient mythic archetype of woman as castrator, demonstrated that women are as aggressive as men and that sex is a dark, dangerous force of nature. But of course the feminist establishment, stuck in its battered-woman blinders, learned nothing as usual from this lurid refutation of its normal views. Classic art works like Bizet's Carmen tell us more about the irrationality of love, jealousy and revenge than do all the pat formulas of the counseling industry.” MenArtCoursesForceSexDarkViewsCasesDangerousIndustryNormalAncientFeministRevengeStuckClassicFormulasAggressiveUsualEstablishmentCounselingArchetypeForces Of NatureIrrationalityBatteredBlindersRefutationLove JealousyBattered WomenBizet Author:Camille Paglia
“Much of the early engineering development of digital computers was done in universities. A few years ago, the view was commonly expressed that universities had played their part in computer design, and that the matter could now safely be left to industry. [...] Apart from the obvious functions of keeping in the public domain material that might otherwise be hidden, universities can make a special contribution by reason of their freedom from commercial considerations, including freedom from the need to follow the fashion.” NeedsYearsMatterReasonDoneMightLeftViewsSpecialFashionDesignMaterialsDevelopmentIndustryComputerYears AgoFunctionIncludingUniversityObviousContributionConsiderationDigitalEngineeringDomainPublic Domain Author:Maurice Wilkes
“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
“All too often, legacy management practices reflexively perpetuate the past - by over-weighting the views of long-tenured executives, by valuing conformance more highly than creativity and by turning tired industry nostrums into sacred truths.” LongPastViewsCreativityPracticeIndustryManagementSacredTiredLegacyExecutives Author:Gary Hamel
“You have to take a broader view and realize this is an industry like any other - telecoms, Railroads; they went through consolidation. Why shouldn't the computer industry be any different? This shouldn't have been a surprise to anybody but it seemed to be, and a lot of people thought I was nuts when I said these things. And that's why they are alone as a consolidator.” PeopleInspirationalHas BeensSaidDifferentRealizingViewsIndustryComputerSurpriseNutsRailroadsConsolidationTelecom Author:Larry Ellison
“I'm very much for strengthening our industry at home. It's great now there's a lot of work happening but I think with Irish film in particular, the views were starting to get a little stereotypical and we were pigeonholing ourselves a little bit. We needed to get out of that.” ThinkingLittlesHomeFilmBitsViewsParticularIndustryNeededLittle BitHappeningsStartingStrengthening Author:Saoirse Ronan
“I think electric cars can help save Detroit. They reflect good decision-making, and there has been bad decision making in the auto industry for so long, in my view.” ThinkingLongHas BeensHelpingDecisionViewsCarIndustryDecision MakingElectricDetroitBad DecisionGood DecisionElectric CarAuto Industry Author:Chris Paine
“I don't necessarily think there's a difference in terms of how the film industry and the ad industry view visual effects. If visual effects (or the lack thereof) are used as a tool to strengthen an idea, they're great. If they are meant to carry more of a load in the absence of a concept, they're a waste and a distraction.” IfsThinkingIdeasFilmUsedTermDifferencesViewsEffectsIndustryWasteConceptsToolsAbsenceVisualsDistractionAdsLoadFilm IndustryVisual Effects Author:Joshua Rogers
“In retailing, the formula happens to be a basic liking for human beings, plus integrity, plus industry, plus the ability to see the other fellow's point of view.” HumansHappensHuman BeingsAbilityViewsIndustryIntegrityFellowsPoint Of ViewPlusFormulasAbility To SeeRetailing Author:James Cash Penney
“Before I would view Rob Reiner as this really annoying pest. Every time he'd come on TV or talking about smoking, I found my blood pressure go up. I just met-really met Rob for the first time last week and told him how much I admire him. He's done more than anyone else in the industry.” FirstsDoneLastsFoundViewsTalkingBloodWeekTvsIndustryMetsFirst TimePressureAdmireSmokingAnnoyingBlood PressurePests Author:Joe Eszterhas
“The single biggest barrier to effective leadership is, in my view, the leadership industry itself. Instead of telling people the skills and behaviors they need to be effective in getting things done, we tell them almost the opposite - blandishments about how we wish people would be, and how we wish workplaces were. That information is worse than useless as, to the extent people believe it, they often wind up losing their jobs.” PeopleNeedsBelieveDoneWould BeJobsWishViewsInformationWindIndustrySkillsBehaviorLosingOppositesUselessBarriersWorkplaceThings DoneEffective LeadershipGetting Things Done Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer
“I was in the second year of my PhD when I first had the idea - I'd recently started working as a translator, which meant firstly that I was hearing about amazing-sounding books from other translators, and also that I was getting enough of an insider's view of the publishing industry to be aware of all the implicit biases that made it so difficult for these books to ever get published, especially if they weren't from European languages (harder to discover, editors can't read the original, lack of funding programmes, authors who don't speak English).” IfsYearsFirstsMadeBookIdeasEnoughSpeakLanguageDifficultViewsIndustryHarderOriginalsHearingMade ItEditorsPublishingFundingProgrammesImplicitTranslatorsSpeak EnglishInsidersPhdsPublishing Industry Author:Deborah Smith
“I view the art scene as an industry which is slowly developing. These days, technology has mad the world smaller. Meaning that information is a website away.” WorldArtViewsTechnologyInformationIndustrySceneMadDevelopingThese DaysWebsite Author:St. Lucia
“We need more points of view from women and we need more support for female directors and writers in the industry.” NeedsViewsSupportIndustryDirectorsFemalePoint Of View Author:Jessica Chastain