Accomplish Quote by E. F. Schumacher

Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's enduring powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.

— E. F. Schumacher

The most striking thing about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little.

— E. F. Schumacher

It takes more than industry to industrialize.

— Walt Whitman Rostow

Contemporary industrial society is now characterised more than ever by the need for stupefying work where it is no longer a real necessity.

— Herbert Marcuse

Industrial Society is not merely one containing 'industry,' large-scale productive units capable of supplying man's material needs in a way which can eliminate poverty:…

— Ernest Gellner

For decades, the pace of technological change in manufacturing has outstripped that in the economy as a whole. And, so, firms - manufacturing firms…

— Janet Yellen

Every innovation makes its appearance as a 'luxury' of the few well-to-do. After industry has become aware of it, the luxury then becomes a…

— Ludwig von Mises

The downfall of the industry is that there is a lot of pressure in it, a lot of rejection in it and a lot…

— Mila Kunis

As nothing truly valuable can be attained without industry, so there can be no persevering industry without a deep sense of the value of…

— Lydia Sigourney

I believe there are a lot of inefficiencies in the way technical innovation happens.

— Hilary Mason

Lack of industry is an attitude.

— Sterling W Sill

Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions…

— Gary Hamel