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After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month. -- John Katzman
Stores don't order merchandise unless they think they can sell it right away. Manufacturers and builders don't produce unless they have buyers lined up. My business contacts describe this as a paradigm shift and they believe it's permanent. -- Janet Yellen
Manufacturers account for nearly 60 percent of all industrial research and development. -- John Engler
Manufacturers are making products kosher to get in on that market, plus more people are looking for kosher. -- Larry Miller
Manufacturers employ more than 14 million Americans doing what Americans do best, making things, building things, transforming raw materials into finished products. -- John Engler
Manufacturers...gradually shift their places, leaving those countries and provinces which they have already enriched, and flying to others, whether they are allured by the cheapness of provisions and labour. -- David Hume
The Grocery Manufacturers Association is behind the bills which have been trying to pre-empt states' labeling laws in the Senate. And they have a lot of money and power in Washington. So it's a classic David versus Goliath story, where corporate lobbying outweighs consumers' rights. -- Zoe Lister-Jones
Manufacturers have long chosen plastic for their products on the basis of price and functionality., But creating a more sustainable relationship with plastics will require a new dexterity on our part. It will require us to think about the entire life cycle of the products we create and use. -- Susan Freinkel
We're the real estate industry - not the manufacturers. -- Joe Murray
Despite these hurdles, manufacturers in the U.S. and their employees are doing remarkable work. -- John Engler
I enjoy trying to develop a car and Mercedes are one of the biggest car manufacturers in the world. -- Lewis Hamilton
When billionaire car dealers or manufacturers pay for ambassadorships, at least they pay with money earned by selling something of value. -- Elizabeth Warren
I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years. -- W. Edwards Deming
Coal and oil lobbyists added fossil fuels to a bill aimed at helping American manufacturers, so they too could claim 'manufacturing' tax deductions. -- Bernie Sanders
Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if they stopped. -- David Ogilvy
Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity. -- Marilyn Monroe
Again two manufacturers may employ the same amount of fixed, and the same amount of circulating capital; but the durability of their fixed capitals may be very unequal. -- David Ricardo
To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke. -- Alvin Toffler
We ought, therefore, to lessen the price of food to our manufacturers, and place them more on a level with the manufacturers who have cheaper food, and also much lighter taxation. -- Joseph Hume
The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers. -- Carter G. Woodson
At a time when we are losing manufacturing jobs in this country, we should be doing everything we can to help our manufacturers stay competitive. They are the backbone of our economy. -- Debbie Stabenow
Consumerism is so weird. It's a sort of conspiracy we collude in. You'd think shoppers spending their hard-earned cash would be highly critical. You know that the manufacturers are trying to have you on. -- J. G. Ballard
The Tort Tax adds to the cost of everything we buy because businesses and manufacturers have to cover themselves and their employees - just in case they get sued by a greedy personal injury lawyer. -- Dennis Hastert
The corporate media is there to push the agenda of the sponsors, and many of those sponsors are weapons manufacturers. So it stands to reason that you won't get a diversity of opinions on television. -- Michael Franti
In 1940, President Roosevelt called on American industry to become the 'great arsenal of democracy.' Automotive manufacturers in Michigan responded and converted their assembly lines from cars to tanks and helped America win World War II. -- Sander Levin
Buyers of powerful cars place a high premium on the exhaust note, and manufacturers spend a lot of money getting it right. At the same time, high-end cars are expected to filter out the sounds of the mundane world. -- Serge Schmemann
Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands. -- Peter Drucker
At a time when U.S. jobs are heading overseas at a record pace, and amidst increased sanctions on our manufacturers and producers from other countries, it's imperative that we do all we can to provide our businesses a climate to operate successfully. -- Blanche Lincoln
Renewable energy also creates more jobs than other sources of energy - most of these will be created in the struggling manufacturing sector, which will pioneer the new energy future by investment that allows manufacturers to retool and adopt new technologies and methods. -- Jay Inslee
There are good intentions behind many people's conversion to veganism, including an admirable devotion to the well-being of animals and a justified skepticism about the crap the USDA allows manufacturers to put in our food. But it's hard to ignore the often sanctimonious nature of what some nutritionists view as an 'extremist' way of eating. -- Julie Klausner
I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It's a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that's what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is. -- Elon Musk
I have the idea that running shoes are based on a kind of cult idea - that our feet are flawed and we need shoes to correct those flaws. The shoe companies are in the business of selling shoes. But there's no evidence from running shoe manufacturers that they're right. There's no scientific data that running shoes reduce injury. -- Christopher McDougall
I've been very good for gun manufacturers. -- Barack Obama
Firearms manufacturers usually find themselves playing defense. -- Bob Barr
The tough competition among German manufacturers makes us fundamentally strong. -- Martin Winterkorn
At Berkshire Hathaway we do not like to compete against Chinese manufacturers. -- Charlie Munger
Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers. -- Mother Jones
A hotel is a place that keeps the manufacturers of 25-watt bulbs in business. -- Shelley Berman
CAFE is like trying to cure obesity by requiring clothing manufacturers to make smaller sizes. -- Bob Lutz
Experience has taught me that manufacturers are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort. -- Thomas Jefferson
The NRA appears to have evolved into the lobby for gun and ammunition manufacturers rather than gun owners. -- Adolphus Busch
I wonder sometimes if manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things. -- Alan Coren
The Philadelphia Feds manufacturers report for September revealed that despite a sharp slowdown, its prices paid index surged 257 points. -- Peter Schiff
The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States. -- Woodrow Wilson
Most British cheeses are now vegetarian and are labelled accordingly. However, French and Italian manufacturers still tend to use rennet. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things. -- Alan Coren
The singular secret of khaddar lies in its saleability in the place of its production and use by the manufacturers themselves. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Industry is increased, commodities are multiplied, agriculture and manufacturers flourish: and herein consists the true wealth and prosperity of a state. -- Alexander Hamilton
As more consumers demand less sugar, the food and beverage manufacturers will eventually come into line with what the consumers want. -- James May
If people keep buying poorly designed products, manufacturers and designers will think they are doing the right thing and continue as usual. -- Donald A. Norman
Most of the manufacturers they tend to design things to sell they are more interested in the money side than anything else. -- Massimo Vignelli
President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term. -- Karen Mills
Reducing trade barriers with this key ally will go a long way toward increasing market access for American farmers, manufacturers and service providers. -- Jim Ramstad
At Indy, we are the NASA of the production-car world, and that's clearly why manufacturers are involved - it's such a good testbed. -- Mario Andretti
I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men just drift. -- Sherwood Anderson
I have a responsibility to the people who work for me, the manufacturers I work with. There is no point to clothes that don't sell. -- Dries van Noten
What I worry about is not just Nissan, but Japanese manufacturers losing motivation to maintain production in Japan. The high yen is definitely a headwind. -- Carlos Ghosn
Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising. -- David Ogilvy
The Victorians pioneered numbers of commercial rackets about which their descendants complain (the manufacturers of Bovril, it appears, were virtually official sponsors of the Boer War). -- D. J. Taylor
There were other auto manufacturers that were confabulating as much as [Buckminster Fuller] was, making claims about how cars resembled this or that aspect of nature. -- Jonathon Keats
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. -- David Milne
Our marine terminals are invaluable commerce infrastructure, not only to our country but also for the many foreign manufacturers who sell primarily in the U.S. market. -- Dana Rohrabacher
These considerations and many others that might be mentioned prove, and experience confirms it, that artisans and manufacturers will commonly be disposed to bestow their votes on merchants. -- James Madison
Forcing automakers to sell smaller cars to improve fuel economy [is like]... fighting the nation's obesity problem by forcing clothing manufacturers to sell garments in only small sizes. -- Bob Lutz
Drug manufacturers could afford to sell AIDS drugs in Africa at virtually any discount. The companies said they did not do so because Africa lacked the requisite infrastructure. -- Barton Gellman
An increase in the relative price of products from the low wage manufacturers in Asia and Latin America will also make those products less attractive to American consumers. -- Martin Feldstein
Belfastas uncivilised as ever--savage black mothers in houses of dark red brick, friendly manufacturers too drunk to entertain you when you arrive. It amuses me till I get tired. -- E. M. Forster
Import and substituting imports with domestic production are a big opportunity. With a devaluation of the rupee, imports get expensive, and for Indian manufacturers, this creates a huge opportunity. -- Baba Kalyani
I don't have a traditional design background, but it's inherent to me. My father was in the fabric industry, and even my grandfather and my great-grandfather were lace manufacturers. -- Stacey Bendet
Perhaps you see, therefore, why I think taste must come before nutrition? Our infatuation for the quasi-scientific has left us easy marks for con men and tin fiddle manufacturers. -- Robert Farrar Capon
We all agree that manufacturers have a right to ensure that fake goods are not marketed in their names and that their own goods are not marketed under fake names. -- John Conyers
Indeed, we must foster cost-saving competition. And that means joining the marketplace of other industrialized countries - not just for the manufacturers who sell drugs, but for consumers as well. -- Olympia Snowe
Most Fortune 500 companies began as small start-ups whose entrepreneurial founders slowly developed the infrastructure, hired the staff, sourced manufacturers or built their own factory, and created distribution, sales, and marketing plans. -- Lynda Resnick
I have a lot of respect for the auto manufacturers. They make a product people live inside - and can die inside - so they are held to very high standards. -- Shai Agassi
The manufacturers of mechanical typewriters believed that they had developed sufficiently when they introduced electric typewriters. Then came the PC, and the deeply traditional makers of typewriters disappeared from the market. -- Norbert Reithofer
Our port facilities should have the freedom to levy a market-based container fee which will provide new revenue and make our system more equitable to the American taxpayer and American manufacturers. -- Dana Rohrabacher
Besides creating more compulsive gamblers, money spent on lotteries isn't spent on other goods such as clothing or computers, which would trickle through to retailers, manufacturers and other parts of the economy -- John Warren Kindt
The ancient nobility and gentry of the kingdom...have been thrust out of all public employment...a race of merchants, and manufacturers and bankers and loan-jobbers and contractors have usurped their place. -- William Cobbett
Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians. -- John Stuart Mill
I don't really like to talk specifically about customers by name - but we work with nearly all the leading manufacturers of consumer products worldwide and at quite a detailed engineering level. -- David Milne
Barley malt has a really deep, rich taste. A lot of manufacturers have switched over to corn syrup over the years because it's a cheaper sweetener, but it doesn't have the flavor. -- Nell Newman
Television networks are a lot like automobile manufacturers or anyone else who's in commerce. If something out there catches on with the public... I guess you can call it 'market research.' -- Glen A. Larson
If the FDA would spend a little less time and effort on small manufacturers of vitamins...and a little more on the large manufacturers of...dangerous drugs..., the public would be better served. -- Russell B. Long
Consumerism is so weird. Its a sort of conspiracy we collude in. Youd think shoppers spending their hard-earned cash would be highly critical. You know that the manufacturers are trying to have you on. -- J. G. Ballard
Blip.tv is growing its audience by forming partnerships with traditional TV manufacturers and a new breed of company in the set-top box market that lets consumers connect to the Internet via their televisions. -- Adam Ostrow
It was fairly obvious to anyone who studied the situation that China was dumping bedroom furniture in the U.S. to the detriment of our American workers and manufacturers to gain market access and share. -- Howard Coble
We know how to punish retailers and manufacturers that don't provide quality and value. But we're lousy at fighting effectively for what we really need - reliable insurance policies; affordable health care; safe, healthy food. -- Shoshana Zuboff
LTO ultrium is adaptable and scalable backup tape format and its technology is continuously enhanced by its manufacturers to address the growing needs and requirements of the server environments of midrange to the enterprise class. -- Sean Paul
Smart development builds on a region's own skills, resources and local businesses. Dumb growth invites a big corporation in, surrenders control and profits to a distant headquarters, undercuts local manufacturers, and risks layoffs without warning. -- Donella Meadows

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