Industry Direction Quotes

The oil industry is a stunning example of how science, technology, and mass production can divert an entire group of companies from their main task. ... No oil company gets as excited about the customers in its own backyard as about the oil in the Sahara Desert. ... But the truth is, it seems to me, that the industry begins with the needs of the customer for its products. From that primal position its definition moves steadily back stream to areas of progressively lesser importance until it finally comes to rest at the search for oil.

I think American industry has lost perspective about their products.

There's nothing slowing down about the shift to the cloud. I don't see anything on the horizon that is changing that.

If Macintosh hadn't been successful, then I should have just thrown in the towel, because my vision of the whole industry would have been totally wrong.

Do you have the same vision of where industry is going as the target of your acquisition? If visions differ, you might get together economically for a while, but then you are going to have problems.

I'm not bothered when other VCs start hiring great designers or start recruiting. That's the direction I'd like it to go.

You get callbacks, and they either give it to what they call a 'name' performer, or they decide to go in an entirely different direction.

What makes that turnstile turn? That's what made wrestling what it has become. The fans dictate the direction of the wrestling industry.

To give the monopoly of the home-market to the produce of domestic industry, in any particular art or manufacture, is in some measure to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, and must, in almost all cases, be either a useless or a hurtful regulation.