Anne M. Mulcahy Quotes

Levi's can produce many more Western jeans than we can and make them at a better price.

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.

It's crazy to go into manufacturing. That's not where the money is.

The people that are running the bulk of the comic shops in North America aren't business people and they don't understand sales. They don't understand good product.

In some respects, the video-game business is a lot like the razor business, which follows a simple model: Give away the razor, gouge 'em on the price of the blades.

I want to explore the existing manufacturing abilities of Indian companies and create products together.

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.

But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.

GM is a highly collaborative organization; we rely on a whole tier of suppliers for everything that we do.

There's no reason for Gillette to be world class on the web, but there's every reason for Gillette to be world class in producing billions of high powered razor blades at low cost.

The people who are banking on Oriental trade are bound to be disappointed. The United States cannot compete with foreign countries until we can manufacture products at a lower cost, which means cheaper labor

Companies are doing a good job at producing stuff. They are just doing it without people.

I think the next massive wave of value creation will be when you can get a manufacturing company or agriculture devices company or a health care company to develop dozens of AI solutions to help their businesses.

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.

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

My father built a small manufacturing business. I worked alongside him and saw firsthand the challenges that business owners face.

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

It used to be that American and European companies built their products in low-wage countries, separated by great distances from the innovators who developed the products and the markets where they were sold. But companies increasingly find that is an outmoded way of doing business.

Apple no longer builds any products. When I was there, people used to call Apple "a vertically integrated advertising agency," which was not a compliment.

Consulting offered me an opportunity to see a lot of different businesses in different regions of the world, to see how textiles were being affected by foreign competition, how technology was changing.

Making 'American Made' really was an adventure.

Your own business growth and success depends on many things, and along that growing path, you are going to have to concede certain responsibilities and activities - whether for your accounting, your production, or day-to-day management.

In the postwar period, Americans turned away from quality as the principal goal of manufacturing and made cost the principal goal. Japanese, restructuring their companies, made exactly the opposite decision.

I believe America should make things.

A bar is a factory, a marketing organization, and a service organization all in one.