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Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly. -- James Dyson
Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant. -- Ralph Merkle
Manufacturing is the most important ... route to prosperity. -- Ha-Joon Chang
Incomes went up for everybody. Manufacturing jobs went up also in the 1990s, if we're actually going to look at the facts. -- Hillary Clinton
Labor-rich manufacturing doesn't exist anymore. Manufacturing jobs are white-collar, Silicon Valley programmers or highly-skilled technicians. They are not going to employ lots of people. -- David Brooks
The New York times' long-standing motto, 'All the News That's Fit to Print,' should be changed to reflect today's reality: 'Manufacturing News to Fit an Ideology.' -- Thomas Sowell
Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire. -- Ludwig von Mises
As we [with Edward Herman] discuss there [in Manufacturing Consent] and elsewhere, recognition of the importance of "manufacturing consent" has become an ever more central theme in the more free societies. -- Noam Chomsky
The book [Manufacturing Consent] itself is then devoted to a series of case studies, selected, we hope [with Edward Herman], to offer a fair and in fact rather severe test of those conclusions. -- Noam Chomsky
Manufacturing and other unskilled professions that were union jobs, that allowed people to live a middle-class life, are disappearing both because unions are disappearing and because of the global nature of the economy. -- Andy Stern
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. -- Craig Venter
When Ronan thought of Gansey, he thought of moving into Monmouth Manufacturing, of nights spent in companionable insomnia, of a summer searching for a king, of Gansey asking the Gray Man for his life. Brothers. -- Maggie Stiefvater
Manufacturing is still very important to us, but we are much more diversified state. And furthermore, anybody that says the steel mills are coming back to Youngstown is not telling the truth. They're not coming back. You could have some aspects of advanced manufacturing appear. -- John Kasich
Manufacturing doesn't just mean building cars and metal-bashing; it includes making pharmaceuticals and hi-tech electronics. A crucial part of the process is the research and development that allows better and greener products to come to market. Britain has traditionally had a strong science and engineering base. -- Martin Rees
The book Manufacturing Consent, which I co-authored with Edward Herman, begins with a description of the structure and institutional setting of the commercial media, and then draws some rather simple-minded conclusions about what we would expect the media product to be, given these (not particularly controversial) conditions. -- Noam Chomsky
To keep up with the demands of the growing manufacturing sector, our Government is pleased to invest in the establishment of the Saskatchewan Manufacturing Centre of Excellence. Training skilled workers and increasing productivity and innovation are essential to the continued growth and prosperity of Saskatchewan, and Western Canada. -- Michelle Rempel
Manufacturing establishments not only occasion a positive augmentation of the produce and revenue of the society . . . they contribute essentially to rendering them greater than they could possibly be, without such establishments. These circumstances are . . . greater scope for the diversity of talents and dispositions which discriminate men from each other. -- Alexander Hamilton
3D printing has digitized the entire manufacturing process. -- Peter Diamandis
Environmental spending creates jobs in engineering, manufacturing, construction, materials, operations and maintenance. -- Keith Ellison
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures. -- Tom Peters
Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event. -- Brian Tracy
I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems. -- Elon Musk
Since 2000, we have lost 2.7 million manufacturing jobs, of which 500,000 jobs were in high-tech industries such as telecommunications and electronics. -- Jerry Costello
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
Although the number of manufacturing jobs in the United States has stagnated, dropping 12 percent from a high in the early 1980s, the number of retail jobs has risen 43 percent. -- Bill Dedman
We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based. -- Stephen King
Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation. -- Larry Elder
The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed. -- Anita Loos
If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly. -- Thomas Sowell
If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that. -- Larry Page
When you look at the number of nuclear power plants in China and India, we can't afford not to pursue similar alternative energy sources. If we do not, it would do immense harm to the manufacturing industry in the Midwest. -- Bob Latta
I, for one, struggle a little bit with a $250,000 education for a philosophy degree. They are a wonderful people, but we can't employ philosophers in manufacturing in the United States. We need a one- or two-year technical add-on for a high school. -- Douglas R. Oberhelman
In the 1940s, cigarettes would be shown in classy situations, endorsed by celebrities - real A-list Hollywood stars in America - the ads would make claims about tobacco quality or manufacturing science and, bizarrely, some brands had what almost amounted to health claims. -- Peter York
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
My father was a die maker for 39 years, so I had a basic understanding of the automobile industry and what the manufacturing world was like, just from the opportunity to spend time with him - just talking, because he was a car buff. -- Mary Barra
The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway. -- W. Edwards Deming
China is a great manufacturing center, but it's actually mostly an assembly plant. So it assembles parts and components, high technology that comes from the surrounding industrial - more advanced industrial centers - Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, the United States, Europe - and it basically assembles them. -- Noam Chomsky
If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods. -- Barry Commoner
As an economic historian, I appreciate what manufacturing has contributed to the United States. It was the engine of growth that allowed us to win two world wars and provided millions of families with a ticket to the middle class. But public policy needs to go beyond sentiment and history. -- Christina Romer
The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's asking for it, asking to be undone, devoured, asking to spend her life perpetrating a new fraud, manufacturing a new fake identity, only this time it's her equality that's fake. -- Rachel Cusk
Everything we think about regarding sustainability - from energy to agriculture to manufacturing to population - has a water footprint. Almost all of the water on Earth is salt water, and the remaining freshwater supplies are split between agricultural use and human use - as well as maintaining the existing natural environment. -- Jamais Cascio
Nanotechnology is manufacturing with atoms. -- William Powell
Money is the great instrumentality for manufacturing. -- Lysander Spooner
Eliminating business taxes makes US best at manufacturing. -- Jim DeMint
In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
Fighting for ourselves means manufacturing our own weapons of self-defense. -- Mike Huckabee
You lose manufacturing jobs, you rarely ever get them back again. -- Graydon Carter
The paralysis of potential is essential to the manufacturing of victims. -- Stefan Molyneux
Listen, were losing so much manufacturing, all over the United States. -- Tim Ryan
The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns. -- Ralph Nader
We want manufacturing to return to America. We want jobs. Economic growth. -- Paul Ryan
In manufacturing, we try to stamp out variance. With people, variance is everything. -- Jack Welch
We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost. -- Ralph Merkle
The rumours of the demise of the U.S. manufacturing industry are greatly exaggerated. -- Elon Musk
The manufacturing and packaging of homogeneous experience is what politics in America is about. -- Howard Rheingold
Data is of course important in manufacturing, but I place the greatest emphasis on facts. -- Taiichi Ohno
The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants. -- Arthur Honegger
I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities. -- Rand Paul
China is crippling our manufacturing economy and eliminating our jobs by illegally flooding our markets. -- Virginia Foxx
Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. -- George Mason
British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class. -- Margaret Heffernan
America's moved so much of its production and manufacturing offshore, it's become a nation of middlemen. -- Andrew Dominik
Agriculture was the first manufacturing industry in America and represents the best of all of us. -- Zack Wamp
Agriculture was the first manufacturing industry in America and represents the best of all of us. -- Zack Wamp
A lot of countries do fight to maintain or expand their share of global investment in manufacturing. -- Edward Alden
Republicans are manufacturing a Social Security crisis that does not exist in order to dismantle Social Security. -- Diane Watson
China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies. -- Charles Bass
I want to direct $10 billion to create a make it in America partnership to support American manufacturing. -- Hillary Clinton
The main difference between service and manufacturing is the service department doesn't know that they have a product. -- W. Edwards Deming
The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large. -- Kurt Vonnegut
The surest foundation of a manufacturing concern is quality. After that, and a long way after, comes cost. -- Andrew Carnegie
President Bush is manufacturing a crisis by suggesting that Social Security is in imminent danger. It is not. -- Richard Neal
Average real wages in Mexican manufacturing are lower than they were 10 years ago, if you can believe that. -- Stephen F. Lynch
You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing. -- Roy Romer
There's not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it. (67) -- Tom Perrotta
We will seek to implement specific changes in the manufacturing and distribution practices to promote more responsibility and accountability. -- Kweisi Mfume
I am going to bring back infrastructure jobs, advanced manufacturing jobs, clean renewable energy jobs, innovation, technology, small business. -- Hillary Clinton
Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry -- Eric S. Raymond
Schooling is a manufacturing process whereby the raw material called curious boys is turned into products called obedient men. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I dream of making India a $20 trillion economy. For that, I am pushing for agriculture, manufacturing and service sectors. -- Narendra Modi
A Deed knocks first at Thought And then - it knocks at Will - That is the manufacturing spot. -- Emily Dickinson
We can bring together rich natural resources, innovative research and development, smart investors, and risk-taking farming and manufacturing entrepreneurs. -- Anthony Pratt
We want to invite the world to Make in India, make India as the base for manufacturing electronic goods. -- Narendra Modi
Your husband, [Hillary Clinton], signed NAFTA, which was one of the worst things that ever happened to the manufacturing industry. -- Donald Trump
Food manufacturing is an ideal candidate for targeted accelerated depreciation because the food industry, our biggest industry, creates significant flow-on benefits. -- Anthony Pratt
At the root of Japanese manufacturing lies a feminine delicacy and shyness as well as a childlike curiosity and fantasy-filled worldview." -- Morinosuke Kawaguchi
As you think, so you become.....Our busy minds are forever jumping to conclusions, manufacturing and interpreting signs that aren't there. -- Epictetus
At the root of Japanese manufacturing lies a feminine delicacy and shyness as well as a childlike curiosity and fantasy-filled worldview. -- Morinosuke Kawaguchi
The hardware business is all about per-unit manufacturing cost and functionality. The services business is less asset-intensive and more dependent on people. -- Anne M. Mulcahy
We've become increasingly addicted to consumption of goods that we don't produce ourselves, and a lot of the manufacturing has gone overseas. -- Jimmy Carter
Whereas most other modern composers are engaged in manufacturing cocktails of every hue and description, I offer the public pure cold water. -- Jean Sibelius
If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector. -- Baba Kalyani
NAFTA stripped us of manufacturing jobs. We lost our jobs. We lost our money. We lost our plants. It is a disaster. -- Donald Trump
Look the, the American worker has been losing - for decades now. We've seen manufacturing in decline here in the industrial Midwest. -- Mike Pence
Unlike the objective of far too many companies, manufacturing is not about a quick exit. It is centered on long-term value creation. -- Hamdi Ulukaya
We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world. -- Tadashi Yanai
While China succeeded in transferring nearly 150 million people from agriculture to manufacturing, we could not do so, due to lack of skilled manpower. -- Pallam Raju
Unlike the objective of far too many companies, manufacturing is not about a quick 'exit.' It is centered on long-term value creation. -- Hamdi Ulukaya
The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy. -- Carly Fiorina
One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing system. That concept has lagged behind in its acceptance. -- Ralph Merkle
Imperceptibly, the developed world's manufacturing base was gradually eroding and being replaced by securitized finance that destroyed itself and nearly its economies in 2008. -- Bill Gross
Real estate deals a lot with the government. It isn't like manufacturing, logistics, home appliances or the auto sector, which deal with consumers. -- Wang Jianlin
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
Unfair trade deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement eviscerated good-paying manufacturing jobs, putting more than 3 million U.S. workers out of work. -- James P. Hoffa
Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States. -- Chris Chocola
I had to learn everything about manufacturing, patents and how to run a business, and eventually I came up with an prototype that worked. -- Melissa George
I've always loved plastics and rubber, and it's such a specifically unique material that you have to have the manufacturing abilities to make it. -- Jeremy Scott
I believe quite simply that the small company of the future will be as much a research organization as it is a manufacturing company. -- Edwin Land
[M]ore Americans work for federal, state or local government than work in any form of manufacturing. We crossed that Rubicon about 10 years ago. -- Ann Coulter
I drive Fords, and I've driven American cars all my life, and I want to have a strong American manufacturing sector, especially in automobiles. -- Jim DeMint
For years, I have worked diligently to develop and implement a 21st century manufacturing strategy that will create jobs in the new clean energy economy. -- Debbie Stabenow
For me, the real thing is make, serve and list in India. Which means we need manufacturing, we need services, and we need financial markets. -- Uday Kotak
I'm not against free trade but I'm against free trade deals that are negotiated badly, that actually compromise jobs, manufacturing jobs, compromise the national interest. -- Nick Xenophon
We need to aim high - in the area of 20-25 percent - to create the urgent demand for new technologies, manufacturing plants and green jobs. -- Van Jones
One of the criteria for a global company is that it should have a manufacturing presence in multiple countries and should not only be an exporter. -- Baba Kalyani
We shouldn't be putting tariffs on anything. That hurts working men and women in US. What we should be doing is making our manufacturing more competitive. -- Rick Santorum
Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own. -- J. C. Ryle
When it comes to economics, president-elect [Donald] Trump has promised to revive American manufacturing, get tough on trade with China, cut taxes and invest in infrastructure. -- Judy Woodruff
Sibelius justified the austerity of his old age by saying that while other composers were engaged in manufacturing cocktails, he offered the public pure cold water. -- Neville Cardus
As more workers lose manufacturing jobs as companies cut back, some are being forced into lower-paying retail jobs. But they still have union cards in their wallets. -- Bill Dedman

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