America Quote by Walt Mossberg

“Textile manufacturing was introduced to the city's economy by settlers from Prussia in the early nineteenth century. Around 18oo, several German industrialists established factories…

— Rebecca Kobrin

The evolution was always to greater scale and speed. Other countries did that here and there - GB in textiles, Germany in steel -…

— Charles R. Morris

Because America doesn't have a strong textile industry anymore, we have to bring things like fabrics, zippers, and color tape into the U.S., and…

— Maria Cornejo

“As with Britain, growth in the United States started with agriculture. Then, steel, railroads, automobiles, electricity, consumer appliances, telecommunications and chemicals were among the…

— Edward A. Hudson

Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.

— John Boyd Orr

Textile manufacturers use complicated chemical and industrial processes to make clothing materials, from cotton to synthetic fibers. And while the environmental consequences aren't always…

— Tatiana Schlossberg

When you innovate, you create new industries that then boost your economy. And when you create new industries and that becomes part of your…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

My belief in why America has been doing so well up to now is that we have been propelled by our immigrants and our…

— Howard Gardner

The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad.

— John Moody

When I was a young man in the 1970s, tech firms were scattered across the developed world. Since then, America has come to dominate…

— Kenneth Fisher

Having come from a working-class family in the rural South, the fashion industry opened my eyes to culture, arts, and the world.

— Trish Goff

What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system,…

— Fareed Zakaria