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Industry Quotes

  • A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune. ~ Richard Whately
  • Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich. ~ Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
  • Concentration is my motto -- first honesty, then industry, then concentration. ~ Andrew Carnegie
  • For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull. ~ Ralph Nader
  • Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry. ~ Oliver Goldsmith
  • Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry. ~ Joseph Heller
  • If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. ~ Sir Joshua Reynolds
  • 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
  • In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
  • Industry is a better horse to ride than genius. ~ Walter Lippmann
  • Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left. ~ John Ray
  • Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity. ~ Charles Dickens
  • Industry need not wish. ~ Benjamin Franklin
  • Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield. ~ Benjamin Franklin
  • Life without industry is guilt. Industry without Art is Brutality. ~ John Ruskin
  • Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement. ~ Oliver Goldsmith
  • Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever. ~ Samuel Smiles
  • Nothing is so difficult but it may be won by industry. ~ Thomas Fuller
  • People that trust wholly to other's charity, and without industry of their own, will always be poor. ~ Sir William Temple
  • Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. ~ Author Unknown
  • When you automate an industry you modernize it. ~ Eric Hoffer
  • School is where you go between when your parents can't take you, and industry can’t take you. ~ John Updike
  • So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.~ Benjamin Franklin
  • Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry. ~ Nathalie Sarraute
  • That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. ~ Abraham Lincoln
  • The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency. ~ David Sarnoff
  • The monarchy is a labor intensive industry. ~ Harold Wilson
  • The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality. ~ Benjamin Franklin
  • There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out. ~ Thomas Carlyle
  • There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry. ~ Donald G. Mitchell
  • There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail. ~ Aldous Huxley
  • There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry. ~ Henry Miller
  • Three outstanding qualities make for success: judgment, industry, health. And the greatest of these is judgment. ~ William Maxwell Aitken
  • Want is the mother of industry. ~ Traditional Proverb
  • Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do, and with them everything. ~ Benjamin Franklin
  • What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry. ~ John Ruskin

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