John Pritzker Quotes

Kmart uses such mass production that they are able to lower their prices. My hose, for instance, is made by the same factory, the same machines, the same threads as the hose made by four top designers.

One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can be assembled at a building site.

The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production.

We are an American business.

2012 was a good year for the Mahindra Group, as we moved ahead by venturing into new geographies and businesses.

Many brands have lost their way in the process of evolving from a small company to a much bigger corporation.

With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.

I'm a big believer that it doesn't matter what you call your company, nobody ever notices.

Only a couple of companies in the world have the experience of building these machines, although the market need, if RFID did take off, would be for about 1 million of the machines running in parallel.

Wal-Mart does not do big mergers, though it will buy much smaller competitors in so-called 'tuck-in acquisitions.'

I have great expectations for our company; pretzels were just the beginning.

Economies of scale are a good thing. If we didn't have them, we'd still be living in tents and eating buffalo.

You can't create a mass market if you don't have a common standard.

Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base.

Once you go from 10 people to 100, you already don't know who everyone is. So at that stage you might as well keep growing, to get the advantages of scale.

There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years.

I say at our management conferences that the amount Wal-Mart grows in just one year is the equivalent of Costco's size.

The Godrej group is expanding rapidly. However, we are not diversifying much.

Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies in North Africa, where the numbered parts were reassembled into temples - the idea took on a new impetus with the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution.

Among the reasons for this was the fact that the U.S.A. is one mass market. It is only when you have a mass market that large-scale manufacturing which involves very substantial expenditures can be justified.

Suning from a management concept and technology point of view isn't simply an appliance company.

When we start a new store, we make sure that we transfer enough starter culture from other stores that are already Whole Fooders, who've already incorporated our values and our culture within themselves into the... into the store.

I see the same coffee table everywhere. It's mass marketing.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

The only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.