Ayn Rand Quotes

We live in such a service-based, globalised economy where very few people actually make anything and the people who do make stuff... it's all part of a massive global supply chain. So what if all those chains were suddenly cut, how would you make something? How would you keep people alive? And that was something I wanted to explore.

Money is the great instrumentality for manufacturing.

If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.

By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them.

I'm someone who believes that making things creates wealth.

In the case of Apple, they did originally do production internally, but then along came unbelievably good outsourced manufacturing from companies like Foxconn. We don't have that in the rocket business. There's no Foxconn in the rocket business.

Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls.

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

America's answer! : Production.

The people of this country have been erroneously encouraged to believe that they could keep on increasing the output of farm and factory indefinitely and that some magician would find ways and means for that increased output to be consumed with reasonable profit to the producer.

We must now place the manufacturer by the side of the agriculturist.

The production of goods had become an end in itself and the consumption of goods only the means to further production.

Engineering or Technology is the making of things that did not previously exist, whereas science is the discovering of things that have long existed.

Whoever claims that economic competition represents "survival of the fittest" in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics…. The truth is that economic competition is the very opposite of competition in the animal kingdom. It is not a competition in the grabbing off of scarce nature-given supplies, as it is in the animal kingdom. Rather, it is a competition in the positive creation of new and additional wealth.

The object of protection is that of diminishing the distance and the waste between the producer and the consumer

Often when I talk about what I do, making isn't just this inevitable function tacked on at the end.

I am always looking to the future of making things.

The right focus for the U.S. is on advanced manufacturing - something that requires innovation.

Developing the locally-run industry is very important in increasing the production of consumer goods.

I think we have to pick up some sectors where we can make India the global hub in the entire value chain, and the most important sector to pick up should be electronics.

Wealth is only ever actually created from the bottom-up, with free people employing their distinctly human creativity and finding ways to serve and employ others.

I see a big, promising future for India's manufacturing and supply chain part of our company.

Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.

Nothing can be made except by makers, nothing can be managed except by managers. Money cannot make anything and money cannot manage anything.