Paul Polman Quotes

While we have land to labor, let us never wish to see our citizens occupied at a workbench or twirling a distaff. Carpenters, masons, smiths, are wanting in husbandry; but for the general operations of manufacture, let our workshops remain in Europe.

If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.

Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.

There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still.

I'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up.

I remember the Washington in which I grew up as a genuine small town. Maybe this is true for everyone, that we all feel that the times in which we grew up were simpler, less complex.

Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.

Let's turn British inventions into British industries, British factories and British jobs. Let them make pounds for us, not dollars marks or yen for others.

That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and characterizes to this day, all industrial systems including the information age.

We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.

I started manufacturing bicycle parts. I come from a city called Ludhiana where almost everybody is self-employed, and either you make bicycle parts or bicycles, or hosiery parts or hosiery goods.

India is the most competitive manufacturing destination on this planet. If we are able to take advantage of that competitiveness for our domestic markets, this country would be humming with activity; industrial production will grow at 10-11% per year.

I grew up in a little town with about 6,000 or 7,000 people. I always knew from 11 or 12 years old that I wanted to be a writer, and I always wanted to write about growing up in a place like that that's small and you don't fit into.

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

Unfortunately, we have lost our manufacturing capacity.

Highland Park swelled with Poles, Russians, Romanians, Hungarians, Maltese, Serbs—a total of 49 nations were represented [on the assembly line]. These men couldn’t communicate with each other, but they could communicate with the machine, working their piece of the assembly line.

I grew up in a refinery town in Texas, and we weren't fancy enough to have a McDonald's.

I came out of a blue-collar town, a GM town, and my father worked at GM, so I was very familiar with that kind of industry and that also informed my work.

Germany's strength lies largely in the fact that the Federal Republic is a center of industry and that it's an export nation.

It's important to remember that Britain was the first country to industrialize, so I think there's a strong argument to say this is where my profession was founded.

I grew up in a factory town - Urbana, Ohio.

America produces the world's best steel, and southwestern Pennsylvania produces the world's best steelworkers.

Manchester's history is cotton and wool. Birmingham's is iron and steel.

I grew up in a really small town.

Connecticut has a proud tradition of manufacturing going back to the days of Eli Whitney.