Yuri Andropov Quotes

I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject.

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

What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.

Despite all the political sound and fury, little service-sector offshoring has happened to date. But it may eventually amount to a third Industrial Revolution, and industrial revolutions have a way of transforming societies.

Thanks to globalization and the technology revolution, the nature of work, the distribution of the rewards from that work, and maybe even the economic cycle itself are being transformed.

It is important to launch a mass and society-wide struggle to drastically increase the production of consumer goods.

My father was the marketing director of a biscuit manufacturer in Berkshire. It meant that every Friday he brought home huge bags of broken biscuits that could not be sold.

These days, the manufacturing is controlled by a small number of countries, primarily Taiwan and South Korea.

Extra capacity makes manufacturing competitive, keeps pricing in control.

If humans want to see the same types of people over and over, that's what industries will give us. If we want to see something different, that's what they'll have to give us.

We envision a more Germany-style economy, where 20 percent of our workforce is in manufacturing. And we're not talking about banging tin in the back room. We're talking about high technology across the board, whether it's computer chips or cars or anything in between.

Technology is the future, I have seen the third industrial revolution, and we are in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution.

For our part, Africa will make a significant contribution to the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

To be truthful, not much 'engineering' goes into the ShamWow!

Prior to the Industrial Revolution, hand-production methods were abundant. Craft defined everything. The craftsman had an almost phenomenological knowledge of materials and intuited how to vary their properties according to their structural and environmental characteristics.

As our farms and factories grew more efficient, they accounted for a shrinking share of our economy. And the more productive agriculture and manufacturing became, the fewer people they employed.

In the U.S., a lot of small manufacturers are pretty good. I don't see any reason why India won't make the same progress in manufacturing as it did in services.

The novelty business is astounding. We can't keep up with it.

It's all about producing products people want.

As the inventor of MyPillow, I have been a proponent of American-made products for decades.

Manufacturing all over the world has the benefit of efficiency. That's great. I support it.

The industrial revolution allowed us, for the first time, to start replacing human labour with machines.

My argument is that there is already an automated machine to make pads. What I did - I reverse-engineered it to 'simple.' Anyone who wants to compete will have to come out with a simpler machine.

The world of design has been subjugated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production.

Automation is driving the decline of banal and repetitive tasks.