Quotes about Industry
The fashion industry has a responsibility to represent a healthy image of women, but to start weighing them and putting them against a wall and making them feel like animals? No.
— Diane von Furstenberg
During my pre-college years, I went on many trips with my father into the oil fields to visit their operations. On Saturday mornings, I often went with him to visit the company shop. I puttered around the machine, electronics, and automobile shops while he carried on his business.
— Woodrow Wilson
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
— Abraham Lincoln
If you run into trouble, just tell everybody that the security of the country requires a strong domestic Egyptian-cotton speculating industry.
— Joseph Heller
The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
— James Madison
Not on the wealthy, who buy only what they want when they want it, was the vast superstructure of industry founded and built up, but on those who, aching for a luxury beyond their reach and for a leisure for ever denied them, could be bullied or wheedled into spending their few hardly won shillings on whatever might give them, if only for a moment, a leisured and luxurious illusion.
— Dorothy Sayers
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may will call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.
— William Wilberforce
[ Hollywood] is a patriarchy, headed by men and built for men.
— Ava DuVernay
Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance of toil, and they abandon the slothful.
— John Milton
A company that does not produce anything other than money is a poor business
— Henry Ford
The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness and industry.
— Billy Graham