Manufacturers Quotes

#1. Idea For A Short Documentary Film
Representatives of different food products manufacturers try to open their own packaging.

Lydia Davis

#2. All the consumer market mojo is with Apple and to a lesser extent BlackBerry. And yet, the real market momentum with operators and the real market momentum with device manufacturers seems to primarily be with Windows Mobile and Android.

Steve Ballmer

#3. Manufacturers are making products kosher to get in on that market, plus more people are looking for kosher.

Larry Miller

#4. It's as if the railroad were looming on the horizon, and the most visionary thing the futurists of the day can think of to say about it is that these iron horses will have a disastrous effect on the hardworking manufacturers of oat-bags for horses.

Cory Doctorow

#5. Likewise, Humanities Computing is the creative result of failure on the part of the manufacturers of early computers to produce operational machines in time to be used during the Second World War (or, one can argue, of failure on the part of the allied forces to make the war last longer).

Melissa Terras

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. When you bring in multi-brand retail items into the country, you're not just bringing the products, but you're also harming local manufacturers.

Narendra Modi

#10. Despite these hurdles, manufacturers in the U.S. and their employees are doing remarkable work.

John Engler

#11. A hotel is a place that keeps the manufacturers of 25-watt bulbs in business.

Shelley Berman

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. Those who had the remaining jobs would have to buy the cheapest stuff possible with their drastically reduced wages, and in order for the manufacturers to keep that stuff cheap, it would have to be made by fifteen-year-olds in China.

Michael Moore

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. We need a new British business bank with a clean balance sheet and an ability to expand lending rapidly to the manufacturers, exporters and high-growth companies that power our economy. Today I can announce we will have one.

Vince Cable

#19. 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

#20. We concluded that one thing we can do is to just go through the locker room and make sure that if anybody is using anything, it's a product from one of the approved manufacturers.

Bob McNair

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. The activities of automobile manufacturers, commercial real estate developers, and the federal government have been far more important in determining patterns of transportation than consumer choice.

Dolores Hayden

#24. 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

#25. President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.

Karen Mills

#26. 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

#27. As more consumers demand less sugar, the food and beverage manufacturers will eventually come into line with what the consumers want.

James May

#28. The main influence on a child's palate may no longer be a parent but a series of food manufacturers whose products - despite their illusion of infinite choice - deliver a monotonous flavour hit, quite unlike the more varied flavours of traditional cuisine.

Bee Wilson

#29. Folks have a common misconception that Mississippi is strictly a rural, outdoors state. While we are famous for our hunting, sport fishing and year-round golf, we also have leading manufacturers like Peavey Electronics and Viking Range Corp.

Gregg Harper

#30. The world was run by its bankers. The world was run by its investor class. The world was run by its manufacturers. The history of human destiny was money, the men who controlled it, and nothing more. Money, a measure of humiliation, was the only thing that mattered.

Jarett Kobek

#31. 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

#32. The NRA appears to have evolved into the lobby for gun and ammunition manufacturers rather than gun owners.

Adolphus Busch

#33. Most British cheeses are now vegetarian and are labelled accordingly. However, French and Italian manufacturers still tend to use rennet.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#34. Without the Ermen & Engels mill in Salford, owned by Friedrich Engels's textile-manufacturing father, the chronically impoverished Marx might well have not survived to pen polemics against textile manufacturers. Something

Terry Eagleton

#35. 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

#36. Industry is increased, commodities are multiplied, agriculture and manufacturers flourish: and herein consists the true wealth and prosperity of a state.

Alexander Hamilton

#37. The tough competition among German manufacturers makes us fundamentally strong.

Martin Winterkorn

#38. The hardware manufacturers, game designers, cable companies and computer companies and, in fact, film studios are going to ensure that this thing marches on. They know that they are going to make an enormous amount of money from it.

Thomas Dolby

#39. I've been very good for gun manufacturers.

Barack Obama

#40. 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

#41. Manufacturers these days have peculiar problems: a package may recommend the virtues of its product by voice only, for it is not allowed to grab the customer by the sleeve or collar.

Stanislaw Lem

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. I enjoy trying to develop a car and Mercedes are one of the biggest car manufacturers in the world.

Lewis Hamilton

#46. It was not until I started racing for car manufacturers that I found a car I could really get attached to. I am the son of a car dealer, so up until then, cars just came and went.

Allan McNish

#47. After all, they (the pro-vaccine lobbyists) say to themselves, you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs. But the eggs being broken are small, helpless, and innocent babies, while the omelette is being enjoyed by the pediatricians and vaccine manufacturers.

Harris L Coulter

#48. The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States.

Woodrow Wilson

#49. I wonder sometimes if manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.

Alan Coren

#50. In the panic of 1819, the protectionists stressed the lack of consumer markets abroad and the necessity for building up a market at home. The inflationists, on the other hand, stressed the shortage of money capital available to manufacturers as a cause of the crisis.

Murray Rothbard

#51. Manufacturers must accept responsibility for their customers' safety.

Eric Schneiderman

#52. With Android I get to choose from many different products from many different phone manufacturers. With iOS, I get what Apple gives me. Which isn't necessarily bad, but it's not always the best fit for my personal or business communication needs.

Mark Cuban

#53. The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now.

David R. Brower

#54. We all are manufacturers in a way - making good, making trouble or making excuses.

H. V. Adolt

#55. 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

#56. 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

#57. We're the real estate industry - not the manufacturers.

Joe Murray

#58. 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

#59. 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

#60. Comparable specification Windows 10 computers from multiple manufacturers can have very different performance between them.

Steven Magee

#61. 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

#62. 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

#63. It's a little-known story that bicycles played a big role in propping up North Korea's informal and privatized economy, because they helped small traders shuffle goods between the manufacturers and markets. These bicycle riders, in turn, became an informal merchant class.

Felix Abt

#64. 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

#65. ...we eat not so much for pleasure as we do to ward off an awful feeling...The fear of hunger is deeply rooted, and food manufacturers know well how to push the buttons that evoke this fear.

Michael Moss

#66. 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

#67. 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

#68. When two countries fight was, it's weapon manufacturers who win.

Abhijeet Singh

#69. It's a very, very tough market.
So unless you do a really good job, you buy the right products from the manufacturers, you service the customer, they keep coming back, they bring their friends in, it's all about numbers, numbers, numbers.

John Ilhan

#70. 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

#71. 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

#72. 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

#73. 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

#74. 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

#75. 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

#76. Firearms manufacturers usually find themselves playing defense.

Bob Barr

#77. 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

#78. Unless a price can be put on carbon emissions that is high enough to force power companies and manufacturers to reduce their fossil-fuel use, there seems to be little chance of avoiding hugely damaging temperature increases

Rajendra K. Pachauri

#79. 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

#80. 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

#81. 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

#82. You are not content with the vast millions of tribute we pay you annually under the operation of our revenue law, our navigation laws, your fishing bounties, and by making your people our manufacturers, our merchants, our shippers.

John H. Reagan

#83. Let me tell you what's fun in golf - low scores. The manufacturers have tricked people into believing that distance is everything. There is no place on the scorecard that says you need to hit it 350 yards.

Hal Sutton

#84. In 1975, Congress passed a law requiring fuel efficiency standards to double over 10 years, with incremental targets that auto manufacturers were required to meet. That was the responsible approach, and it worked. But since 1985, we've done nothing - even as technology has moved at light speed.

Michael Bloomberg

#85. 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

#86. 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

#87. At Berkshire Hathaway we do not like to compete against Chinese manufacturers.

Charlie Munger

#88. CAFE is like trying to cure obesity by requiring clothing manufacturers to make smaller sizes.

Bob Lutz

#89. 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

#90. The American Academy of Pediatrics officially supports breastfeeding, but receives about half a million dollars from Ross, manufacturers of Similac infant formula.

Ben Goldacre

#91. I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. 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

#92. The Philadelphia Feds manufacturers report for September revealed that despite a sharp slowdown, its prices paid index surged 257 points.

Peter Schiff

#93. 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

#94. America is becoming more and more dependent upon imports from foreign manufacturers than we are exports from our country in all fields: in appliances, in clothing, even food. This year America may become for the first time in its history a net food importer.

Marcy Kaptur

#95. Writers (my kind of writers: aspiring novelists, ruminative thinkers, people whose brains don't work quick enough to blog or link or tweet, basically old, stubborn blowhards) were through. We were like women's hat makers or buggy-whip manufacturers: Our time was done.

Gillian Flynn

#96. 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

#97. Farmers, merchants, manufacturers, and the traveling public have all had their troubles with the transportation lines, and the difficulties to which these struggles have given rise have produced that problem which is even now apparently far from solution.

John Moody

#98. 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

#99. 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

#100. Only the big food manufacturers have the wherewithal to secure FDA-approved health claims for their products and then trumpet them to the world. Generally, it is the products of modern food science that make the boldest health claims, and these are often founded on incomplete and often bad science.

Michael Pollan