Often, M.B.A.s will parachute around from one company or industry to another, without really understanding what's behind it.
Linear thinking typifies a highly developed industry. It starts to get these patterns built into it somehow. I'm not sure how that happens, but certainly you take a look at dinosaurs.
In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied each other willy-nilly.
Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems.
Liverpool was an industrial town, a poor town. The people fought hard for what they wanted to achieve and there was a hunger there, and that hunger has remained with the musicians.
The British security industry has the capacity to be a world leader and it should be our shared objective to achieve this.
Because the pop industry is cruel, if you don't do everything the label wants you to do, it has an army of other people waiting to do it.
A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in the wake of Roe and Doe.
The mutual fund industry and small investors are very relentless and very unforgiving if people don't perform.
Even before coming into the industry, I was a big fan of Motown, the Jackson 5, Gladys Knight, the Temptations, Diana Ross and The Supremes.
For me, my rule in this industry is I've got to listen to my butterflies. So if I got butterflies, then those are the scripts I go after.
Could the garment and appliance industries be in cahoots together, creating an artificial sock demand to keep us buying?
Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.
I suppose the worst case scenario is that people will get to the point where they can't actually afford to make what they want to make creatively. The industry is collapsing.
I don't think that growing up in the entertainment industry is the healthiest place for kids. The track record kind of shows that.
I had always been a fan of Nas, but I never met him. This is the one guy in the industry who's, like, the phantom rapper.
Some of the newer folks in the industry, I'm not sure they are familiar with the term acting. They don't understand what it means to play a character rather than just be a personality.
Working in this industry, I have been exposed to so many products and now realize more than ever how cruel and unnecessary animal testing is.
After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales.
The era of industrial Britain, where a large section of our workforce provided cheap labour in factories and processing goods, is over.
