Top 31 Industry Quotes

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Industry is the idea of improvement using human ingenuity. With that in mind, check out the top 31 industry quotes.

#31 – 30. Industry Quotes

31. I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn’t park anywhere near the place. – Steven Wright

30. In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create. – Raoul Vaneigem

#29 – 20. Industry Quotes

29. The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this — that we manufacture everything there except men. – John Ruskin

28. Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs. – Herbert Hoover

27. The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation. – Dixie Lee Ray

26. However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. – Winston Churchill

25. It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically. – Aneurin Bevan

24. In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization. – John L. Lewis

23. Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection. – Mark Twain

22. If there is to be peace in our industrial life let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees – at least to the degree set forth in existing statutes. – John L. Lewis

21. If you have genius, industry will improve it; if you have none, industry will supply its place. – Sir Joshua Reynolds

20. National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice. – Samuel Smiles

#19 – 10. Industry Quotes

19. It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art. – Margaret Oliphant

18. The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against the intrusion of alien doctrines of government. – John L. Lewis

17. Don’t water your weeds. – Harvey McKay

16. The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves. – John L. Lewis

15. The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry. – John L. Lewis

14. Don’t tell my parents that I work in the pharmaceutical industry. They think I am working in a brothel. – Gerhard Kocher

13. The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future. – Karl Marx

12. We cannot become what we want to be by remaining what we are. – Max DePree

11. Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence. – Vince Lombardi

10. If you define the problem correctly, you almost have the solution. – Steve Jobs

#9 – 1. Industry Quotes

9. Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy. – Benjamin Franklin

8. In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot. – Henry Ward Beecher

7. We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end. – Lewis Mumford

6. Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born. – John L. Lewis

5. Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. – Vincent Van Gough

4. This is true only because the purposes and objectives of the Committee for Industrial Organization find economic, social, political and moral justification in the hearts of the millions who are its members and the millions more who support it. – John L. Lewis

3. Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war. – Remy De Gourmont

2. Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents. – Karl Marx

1. If you always do what you always did, you’ll always get what you’ve always got. – Henry Ford

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