The great lesson in microeconomics is to discriminate between when technology is going to help you and when it's going to kill… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
All civilization in a sense exists only in the mind. Gunpowder, textile arts, machinery, laws, telephones are not themselves transmitted from man… — Alfred L. Kroeber Copy Share Image
I think the Tata Group's greatest contribution to the growth of the Indian economy and Indian industry probably happened in the pre-independence… — Ratan Tata Copy Share Image
Over the past 30 years, hand grenades, tanks, fighter jets, missiles, helicopters and assault rifles have replaced traditional floral patterns in rug… — Henri Cole Copy Share Image
I went to school for clothing and textiles and thought this is what I was going to do. Then I started working… — Melissa McCarthy Copy Share Image
While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
What's interesting about textiles is that they are determined about three seasons in advance, that's why when you walk into a store… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
Light and color are closely linked. The colors can make a crucial change in nature, if you switch from daylight to artificial… — Verner Panton Copy Share Image
China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness… — Virginia Foxx Copy Share Image
Both Italy and Britain have a great tailoring tradition. British men are famously elegant and careful with their style: they love to… — Domenico Dolce Copy Share Image
The very same British and American families who had combined to wreck the Indian textile industry in the promotion of the opium… — John Coleman Copy Share Image
Experts kill me. Economic experts, that is. Corporations, foundations, publications and governments pay them by the bucketful, and they fill buckets with… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
Brown people and black people and red people swarmed through our great halls, until those who were white looked simply faded-out human… — Candace Wheeler Copy Share Image
As South Korea shows, active participation in international trade does not require free trade. Indeed, had South Korea pursued free trade and… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
I realized early on, maybe better than some of my competitors did, that a textile business can run only if you have… — Mian Muhammad Mansha Copy Share Image
We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world. — Tadashi Yanai Copy Share Image
I think when we talk of craft we talk of a certain set of processes, whether that be clay of glass if… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
What I resist is techniques. I find techniques very problematic. So when critics talk about my work in those terms, I find… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
I want to combine a business major with studies in clothing and textiles. — Evelyn Ashford Copy Share Image
Our job as actors, especially in front of a camera, is almost like textile artists. We spend so much time getting the… — Anthony Heald Copy Share Image
We bought a doomed textile mill [Berkshire Hathaway] and a California S&L [Savings & Loan; Wesco] just before a calamity. Both were… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
My father got a job at Bradford University in textiles. And he came for - I guess, you know, why do people… — Aasif Mandvi Copy Share Image
As for the various kinds of montage photography, they are in reality not photography at all but a kind of painting in… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
If you don't have customers to sell to, you can't commit to anything with textile factories or manufacturing factories because you don't… — Fred Foster Copy Share Image
I don't think that you can dispose of the constructive and inventive things that America is doing - and say, "Oh we… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image