Industrialists Quotes

We asked the workers to give up 25 percent of their salaries. Imagine! We asked the industrialists to freeze all costs, no matter what the inflation is. - Shimon Peres

These mansions are part of our heritage. They tell you something about the financiers and the industrialists that built Pittsburgh, but they're also a testament to the craftsmen and artisans that built the city. I can't imagine anyone tearing them down. - Richard Pearson

There is one rule for industrialists and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible. - Henry Ford

The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally. - Carroll Quigley

Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists. - Fred Thompson

If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages? - Margaret Mead

I asked the industrialists to choose, to make a decision, because the problems facing this country are not only the concern of government, but a matter for everyone. - Romano Prodi

[The trial changed all that, the writer says.] He's just a businessman [now]... He's very much like a lot of the industrialists of the early part of the century. - John Heilemann