INDUSTRY

Related Subjects: Business, Earnestness, Labor, Machinery, Mass Production, Science, Wages, Work, Zeal

1. In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which
   genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.—H. W. BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
   

2. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.—Bible: Proverbs 31:27
   

3. The dog that trots about finds a bone.—GEORGE BORROW, The Bible in Spain
   

4. Industry is a loadstone to draw all good things.—ROBERT BURTON, Anatomy of Melancholy
   

5. Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise.—GEORGE CHAPMAN, Eastward Ho
   

6. Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.—DICKENS, Barnaby Rudge
   

7. Leave no stone unturned.—EURIPIDES, Heracleidae
   

8. Plough deep while Sluggards sleep,
   And you shall have Corn to sell and to keep.—FRANKLIN, Poor Richard
   

9. Industry need not wish.—FRANKLIN, Poor Richard
   

10. Let us, then, be up and doing.—LONGFELLOW, A Psalm of Life
    

11. Push on—keep moving.—THOMAS MORTON, A Cure for the Heart-Ache
    

12. Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality her left.—Proverb
    

13. Much industry and little conscience make a man rich.—Proverb

14. Industry is the mother of fortune.—Proverb
    

15. If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiencies.—SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, Discourses on Painting
    

16. Life without industry is guilt, industry without art is brutality.—RUSKIN, Lectures on Art
    

17. Love of bustle is not industry.—SENECA
    

18. The best of me is diligence.—SHAKESPEARE, King Lear
    

19. Nothing is achieved before it be thoroughly attempted.—SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, Arcadia
    

20. And if the industrialists who own or manage it [industry] cannot make it work, cannot avoid ruinous crashes periodically, cannot provide employment for the millions of idle who beg for a chance to live, then the Government of the United States can assume sovereignty over it, engage competent engineers to set it in motion with the aid of management and labor.—CHARLES A. BEARD, The Open Door at Home

21. The prosperous industry no longer just "grows," like Topsy. Success is spelled not only by superior manufacturing methods, but by the labor market, the transportation costs and many other elements that have to do with location.—H. S. COLBURN, Industrial Properties

22. The great masses of our working people depend upon industry for their life and happiness. Industry has a duty to them. It must be conducted in a manner which will promote the common good.—CARDINAL HAYES
    

23. We have utterly failed to adopt our economic and political machinery to the complete technical revolution in industrial and agricultural production.—MAURY MAVERICK, Blood & Ink
    

24. The accumulated knowledge resulting from modern scientific and technical discoveries is so great that were it rapidly and continuously applied to the improvement of productive processes, we could have a rate of industrial advancement, and attain a level of production in the not distant future, that would dwarf anything that has been known in the past.—H. G. MOULTON,
    Income & Economic Progress