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“The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'”
Ludwig van Beethoven
“[We believe that unions have always been about much more than the industries in which they operate.] The fight is never about grapes or lettuce, ... It is always about people.”
Cesar Chavez
“Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character”
Calvin Coolidge
“The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.”
David Hume
“Avarice, the spur of industry”
“War is the national industry of Prussia.”
Comte de Mirabeau
“From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8, 000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone.”
Barbara Ehrenreich
“All things are easy to industry, all things are difficult to sloth.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.”
Larry Ellison
“It's tough in the Hip Hop industry to continue to create, because the powers that be want a throw away art. They didn't think Rap Music would even last. So instead of trying to get rid of rap music, because everyone benefits from it, they try to get rid of seasoned rappers, at a point in their careers when they finally know the ins and outs of the business aspect of their careers. You see what Prince did when he realized that he didn't own anything, he put slave on his cheek. He came to a point in his career where he was educated enough to be wiser in his choices and realized his true leverage power.”
Daz Dillinger
