Industry Criticism Quotes

Across the board, women are unhappy with our industry.

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason. There's also a negative side.

I hate to say it as a pejorative term, but I work for the Hollywood system for the most part.

I think the reason why we got into such idiocy in investment management is best illustrated by a story that I tell about the guy who sold fishing tackle. I asked him, "My God, they're purple and green. Do fish really take these lures?" And he said, "Mister, I don't sell to fish." Investment managers are in the position of that fishing tackle salesman.

For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.

Rationality is not one of this industry's attributes.

People who work in financial services don't have one shred of concern about the well-being of the people they serve. They're only interested in themselves.

It's certainly not a shock to find that the industry has no imagination. I think people don't know what it is I do. Because half the time you're talking to people who are in their 20s, and I've been doing this for over 25 years.

I have, on the other hand, felt ill will from various people in the industry and the press.

Given the choice of Hollywood or poking steel pins in my eyes, I'd prefer steel pins.

Hollywood can be a very stinging town. They say it's a forgiving business. It's not that forgiving.

Ultimately, I love everything about making games, but I've come to hate everything about conventional sustainability, and I know I'm not alone.

People in England talk about stupid Hollywood idiots, but the industry attracts some of the cleverest people in the world.

Like every other industry or institution, the journalism world is populated by the petty and fearful, in addition to the courageous and brilliant.

I love Twitter! At first I made fun of it, because it is very narcissistic, and there's already so much narcissism flowing in this industry, I was like, 'Really, one more?' So I was against it at first. But I really love the idea of the direct connection - there's no middle man muddling it up.

The UFC isn't this whole glamor everybody thinks. They don't pay you right.

I've spent my career fighting the worst practices of insurance companies.

Music became so commercialized that I just didn't want anything to do with it. I renounced the industry before it became the fashionable thing to do.

The industry is a menace to artists.

Actors really are the scum of the earth. Their behavior makes overpaid rock stars look positively noble.

General Motors, like the other two geezers of the Old Three, is a vast retirement home with a small money-losing auto subsidiary.

Modeling is so... not superficial. Well, I guess it is. But it's boring.

The Academy Awards are passed out on Sunday. It's voted by members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Or as I call them, 50 shades of white.

Musicians don't respect a lot of the stuff that is on TRL and a lot of musicians think that stuff on the radio is not good musically so when musicians say that they like us it obviously feels good.

Abbey Lee was a very famous model and had great success. She was very open about the negative aspects of that industry.