Nico Hulkenberg Quotes

It never ceases to amaze me what it takes to develop and bring to mass production a product.

Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.

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.

The process of building a part doesn't really stop.

The key to making things affordable is design and technology improvements, as well as scale.

I wanted to be an engineer.

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

Hard systems are everything we're using right now - computers, phones, planes, the clothes you're wearing, the room you're in. Everything there involves 100% use of technology and expertise to make it, and nothing we make - including space exploration vehicles and so on - is complex. Everything we make is complicated. Nothing is self-renewing.

We believe we've got the skill base and the techniques to supply the chips that really enable the end manufacturers to develop exciting, innovative products themselves.

As you may know, I am a mechanical engineer.

I happen to love engineering. I love figuring things out in a spatial sense, that whole realm of working with mechanical parts, and the relationship of the parts, and things like ratios and the speeds of particular objects.

It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number of books there.

The center of gravity for an organization should be as close to what they make as possible. If you make cars, you need people in the factory. If you breed horses, be in the stable. If you make the Internet, live on the Internet, and use all the freedom and power it gives you.

I am an industry.

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

We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we color it, we title it and we ship it out in cans.

Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.

I realized early on, maybe better than some of my competitors did, that a textile business can run only if you have scale. I decided to horizontally and vertically integrate, adding everything from spinning, dyeing, weaving, and stitching to processing and packing.

My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.

The purpose creates the machine.

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

America's answer! : Production.

Politicians don't make things—they occasionally have ideas and mostly see them frustrated. But at Cadbury-Schweppes, you can actually go into a factory and see something come out the other end, like a bottle of tonic water or a bar of chocolate. It is a completely different feeling.

Now we shall see whether I can build anything but automobiles, tractors and ships.

We must produce a true American motor, a true American plane.