Factories Quotations

In the Second World War, they're talking about the Japanese traitors and putting them into concentration camps. But companies like DuPont had factories in Germany turning out stuff for the German Army.

Windows were the first thing we made ourselves. Other products, such as cement and plasterboard, came later. Some of the factories we actually built because of union blockades trying to stop us getting supplies.

Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Detroit and the oil fields in Texas knows that Japan lacks the national power for a naval race with America.

Factories are the workplaces of our National Socialist racial comrades.

The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly.

I enjoy going out to the plants, the factories where just some sub-element maybe of the orbiter or the space station is built. Those people take such pride in that component, and they build it to perfection, and it's just a pleasure to see that.

My father was an engineer working for a textile company that had several factories scattered in rural towns in the southern part of Japan.

As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors

You are forced to have the best data capture, the best information, when you have goods in hundreds of factories around the world, and the question is: 'Where is everything?' And how do you bring it all together?

Hollywood is the dream factory, and no one dreams about older women.

Every year, about 10 billion farm animals go through America's horrific factory farm system: cows, pigs, chickens, sheep, lamb. There, they are subjected to unimaginable and torturous confinement in vast factories where they never see the light of day. Agribusiness goes out of its way to make sure you don't see the inside of those factory farms.

It's much more difficult to make an unbound book than a bound book, because the factories aren't set up to make an unbound book.

I think people really understand that clean air and clean water and not having factories dumping their emissions into the atmosphere and into the rivers and into the sea has been a very good thing for America. EPA stands watch for very important principles that go all the way back to Teddy Roosevelt.

Americans trash the planet not because we're evil, but because the industrial systems we've devised leave no other choice. Our ranch houses and high-rises, factories and farms, freeways and power plants were conceived before we had a clue how the planet works.

One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

There were many years when I was hand-to-mouth and didn't know how I was gonna make rent. I've done every job under the sun, from busing tables, temping, and working in factories to SAT prep and detailing cars. So to be able to make a living where all I do is write is absolutely liberating.

The more telly you do, the more it feels like a factory.

A very big passion of mine and that of the people that run our production is finding factories that have fair labor practices and treating them more like partners in our family than people just who are going to produce for us.

John Irving once told me he doesn't start a novel until he knows the last sentence. I said, 'My God, Irving, isn't that like working in a factory?'

You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything in your factory and hire someone to protect against this because of the work the rest of us did.

Pork was in 1971, and I stopped hanging out at The Factory by like 1973.

I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories.

I'd like to see Apple and Dell factories be brought to the inner cities; in every project in America, there's some factory there, and it's abandoned, and I'd like to see those factories open and bring jobs to America.

Lofts were never supposed to be homes. They were vacant old factories and warehouses, taken over by artists looking for cheap space and good light.

Sure, sure, I'd like to see Apples built in the United States, not built in China. I'd like to see them have factories in the United States. At least partially. They make nothing in the United States, virtually.

When you take over a company like GE, you think you're going to visit 100 businesses. You're going to go see the factories you haven't seen before. You're going to see a site in Texas and one in Canada and stuff like that. That has fallen by the wayside.

Until the Nineteen-Eighties, when Deng Xiaoping designated the area as China's first special economic zone, Shenzhen had been a tiny fishing village. Suddenly, eleven million people appeared, seemingly out of nowhere; factories sprang up, often housed in hastily constructed tower blocks.

I learned just by going around. I know all about Kleenex factories, and all sorts of things.

We're not about liquidating companies, but if you do that, why is that terrible? We're not blowing up the factories. The person who buys it should be able to make the asset more productive.

I want to preach the gospel so plainly that men can come from the factories and not have to bring along a dictionary.

When foreign investors enter Vietnam, they must follow the country's labor rules. If they don't, the Vietnamese government has the responsibility to enforce the law or expel the company. The government has to protect the worker. The unions that represent workers in factories of foreign and joint-stock companies are weak. They don't have the strength to stand up to the management.

Most women work one shift at the office or factory and a 'second shift' at home.

We tried that in America. Jimmy Carter gave us price controls on natural gas. Remember what it gave us? Shortages, shutdowns, a horrible situation in parts of the country where factories couldn't operate and people went unemployed. Price caps? Prices caps mean shortages, less energy.

The products built in the factories of G.M., Ford and Chrysler are some of the greatest weapons of mass destruction responsible for global warming and the melting of our polar icecaps.

I'd always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.

We've seen a cross-section of people from the smallest retailers to the largest factories respond. Many, many people are realizing what this program has done, and what it can do.

Military deaths in this first wave of attacks would be expected to be in the thousands. Civilian deaths would be in the many hundreds at least, particularly with the requirement to target technical support for the nuclear and missile infrastructure, with many of the factories being located in urban areas.

If the yuan rises too rapidly, a lot of overseas investors might move their factories or companies out of China.

Businesses or factories where we cannot restore profitability to an acceptable level will be closed or sold.

From the 1920s into the 1940s, Britain's standard of living was supported by oil from Iran. British cars, trucks, and buses ran on cheap Iranian oil. Factories throughout Britain were fueled by oil from Iran. The Royal Navy, which projected British power all over the world, powered its ships with Iranian oil.

What I see is a stable of salivating legal factories gearing up. Is it prudent or responsible for Congress to wait for the inevitable flood or do what it can to provide sandbags now?

What I hope to see for labor is the people who work in factories own the factories

The Palestinian leadership could have built schools, hospitals and factories instead of a casino. This is a big disgrace and we will put an end to it.

Owners of factories face huge loss not only because of disruption in production and cancellation of orders, they also have to pay the workers without production. I run a flour mill, production of which has also declined.

Our German factories must be able produce at prices appropriate for export.

Where we are in terms of damage assessment is my initial assessment of these factories being shut down for three days to one week is now very optimistic.

We believe this is a good, fair and competitive offer. The rising cost of health care is something that's affecting all Americans. We're asking our union employees to shoulder more of the cost . . . to keep our factories in Connecticut and Florida competitive.

We haul an awful lot of limestone out of the area that is used in numerous factories in and out of the area.

We are really trying to link diamonds to tourism so we are really trying to create a lot of brand attention around the brands our factories are promoting.

Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor conditions in German factories. Then I was in charge of public works on the staff of Hess. I gave up both these activities in 1941.

If people will bring dynamite into a powder factory, they must expect explosions.

The working class must control the factories and the country

The house is a factory.

Well, there were several things. One was that the industry itself built in Detroit was abandoning the city - taking factories elsewhere, the corporate headquarters elsewhere.

We buy them from the same factories in China that make their shoes.

We will form a vigilance team to inspect all the 4,000 ready-made garment factories round the year and detect violators, who will face strict action.

But the lead will be short-lived as the Korean companies will be able to make panels at lower costs in their new factories after output increases in the second half of this year.

Turning stumps into mushroom factories is a fantastic project for families and for schools to undertake to help educate people about the mushroom and their tremendous benefits.

We all want to buy sneakers at bargain prices at WalMart. Children have to be exploited in factories in Thailand to produce them. If we want to stop that over in Thailand, we've got to be able to pay a price here in the United States.

We will pursue these factories of the missiles, the place where they coach the suicide bombers. We will reach them everywhere.

We lost a lot of beautiful buildings to urban renewal, ... The uniqueness of these buildings is the character and charm of the community. They'll never build factories like that again.

We try to do what we can in our own way. We want to eventually have machine manufacturing in America. Our goal is to open some of those factories in our community that have closed.

Both of their fathers came from Bangladesh 40 years ago as unskilled, almost illiterate laborers. They went to work in the garment factories in the midlands. Later, they brought their wives over and put their children in school.

Even in this runaway economy that has some factories running 24 hours, ... employers are still able to find areas that can be trimmed or eliminated altogether.

Did eastern Germany not need roads, roofs and factories more than an expensive church? But a group of residents said Dresden needed more. And now we can see that those people were right.

The residents were unhappy with the conditions for trade. The distance from the factories made the fruit arrive at its destination in bad condition and the buyers said they had to reduce the price. Conclusion: some people lost the whole of their production or sold the tin - 14 kilograms of the fruit - for R$ 0.50 (approximately US$ 0.24 at current exchange rates).

SARS has not stopped factories from rolling out products in China, ... The only effect it's had on U.S. businesses is that it has led to fewer visits from buyers to the region. So there have been less face-to-face meetings between buyers and suppliers, but companies have gotten around that by teleconferencing.

During the fourth quarter we successfully increased production in our existing factories as well as our newer operations to support strong demand in several end markets, including wireless communications and consumer electronics. Our leadership in wafer bumping, wafer level processing, flip chip, 3D packaging and other advanced package and test solutions has created what we believe is a strong pipeline of business. We are focused on optimizing our business opportunities, leveraging our strategic alliance with IBM, and laying the groundwork for expansion in Singapore and China.

Despite their renowned prowess at reverse engineering, the Chinese do not have the factories to produce this type of advanced electronic equipment,

An experimental group of experienced women pilots in the United States might begin immediately flying small trainers from factories to bases.

Any group that intends to sell laboratory meat will need to build bioreactors - factories that can grow cells under pristine conditions. Bioreactors aren't new; beer and yeast are made using similar methods.

As we set those plans in place, we knew there was a pricing element, and we went to the factories and said, 'We need you to reduce expenses by hundreds of millions of dollars.' They got about 80 percent of what I asked for.

It points to a growing interest among businesses in using fuel cells to power factories and buildings. The most compelling reason for GM to collaborate with Dow is ultimately to reduce the cost of fuel cells and improve their durability so that we may put them in cars by the end of the decade.

It's not that we're getting out of the market. It's that we will be obtaining tubes from other Sony factories in the world, particularly in Singapore and in China.

It's seen as the foreigners way of taking money out of the country without necessarily building factories or other obvious ways of adding value to the economy.

Creating life at the speed of light is part of a new industrial revolution. Manufacturing will shift from centralised factories to a distributed, domestic manufacturing future, thanks to the rise of 3D printer technology.

They couldn't afford to maintain two factories doing the same thing. It was a difficult thing . . . (but) employees were very appreciative because we gave them a fair severance or retention package to get them to stay with the company until the end.

The two factories were re-opened more than a year ago and are serving local residents well.

I want to make it clear to those immigrants who are here illegally, we're not going to go around to factories (or elsewhere) asking for your cards. I don't want an immigrant here illegally violated by a (criminal) act of someone else, afraid to call the local law enforcement agencies for help. We will not deport you. We will go after the person who did the crime.

The new factory is state-of-the-art. We have taken all the best characteristics from our existing factories and made this one better, larger and more automated.

In all modern automobile factories in the world, there are breaks for assembly-line work. They are an indispensable component of an intelligent working organization and are no relic from the past.

International police action against the factories and distribution networks should be as uncompromising as that applied to the pursuit of narcotic smuggling.

Children are forced into prostitution, begging and soliciting, labor on plantations and in mines, markets, factories and domestic work.

My parents were immigrants. And the place for all immigrants was the factories. They were the source of cheap labor.

You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory or go back to the desk.

That's your truck parked up by the factory isn't it?" Magnus pointed. "It's awfully butch for a bookseller.

Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.

There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.

My parents were Muscovites. They worked at the Kaliber factory.

Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?

Ideas aren't a sideshow that make our factory a little more valuable. Our factory is a sideshow that makes our ideas a little more valuable!

This year - a factory of semiconductors. Next year - a factory of whole conductors!

The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns out refrigerators.

Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.

God is less careful than General Motors, for He floods the world with factory rejects.

To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are production units, and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests.

Regarding factory-farmed animals We owe them a merciful death, and we owe them a merciful life. And when human beings cannot do something humanely, without degrading both the creatures and ourselves, then we should not do it at all.

130 of Automattic's 150 employees work outside of our San Francisco headquarters. Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working?

This is one of those numbers that can kind of go either way. It means factories are producing more than they would have been, but if sales don't show up, then they have to pay it back. There's always the chance that doesn't happen.

And $18 million in three Japanese banks, completely false. That I have two factories in Panama, also completely false. This is part of the counter campaign of some people.