Production Quotes

“Don't mistake activity with achievement.”
― John Wooden

“The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society. Conservation of the old modes of production in unaltered forms, was, on the contrary, the first condition of existence for all earlier industrial classes. Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation, distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away; all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life and his relations with his kind.”
― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

“If you're early, you're on time. If you're on time, you're late.”
― Lik Hock Yap Ivan

“If one prevents a man from working for the good of society while at the same time providing for the satisfaction of his own needs, then only one way remains open to him: to make himself richer and others poorer by the violent oppression and spoliation of his fellow men.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Liberalism: The Classical Tradition

“There’s something different about when a female directs versus a male. The level of maturity, mutual respect, and energy that you get from a female director is so different. I’ve worked with male directors who aren’t good, and no one says anything about it, but then we had one female director who was kind of all over the place and everyone complained. It’s so gendered. I feel safer when working with a female director because I know it’s from a female gaze.”
― Rowan Blanchard

“The only weapon of power, its only strategy against this defection, is to reinject the real and the referential everywhere, to persuade us of the reality of the social, of the gravity of the economy and the finalities of production.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

“In nature, waste does not exist. There is only production and consumption; there is only creation and utilization. We need to model nature in how we manage our businesses.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Consider this: when you stand at the entry to a steel factory, you can make out through the smoke some men, some metal, the fires. The furnaces roar, the hammers crash; and the metalworkers who forge ingots, weapons, tools, and so on are completely ignorant of the real uses to which their products will be put. The workers can only refer to their products by conventional names. Well, that's where we all stand, all of us! Nobody can see the real character of what he creates because every knife blade may become a dagger, and the use to which an object is put changes both its name and its nature. Only our ignorance shields us from terrible responsibilities.”
― Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, L'Ève Future

“Your daily product determines your value”
― Sunday Adelaja

“The great majority of “consumption” (throughput) does not involve individual product users at all. For example, the average rate at which people produce waste, mentioned above by [Jared] Diamond, is calculated by dividing the total population into the total waste. But since 99 percent of all solid waste in the United States today comes from industrial processes, eliminating all household waste would have little effect on per capita waste. Diamond’s “average rate” is meaningless.”
― Ian Angus, Too Many People?: Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis

“When production, consumption and capacity are not in alignment, the result is waste.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Innovation basically involves making obsolete that which you did before.”
― Jay Abraham, The Sticking Point Solution: 9 Ways to Move Your Business from Stagnation to Stunning Growth InTough Economic Times

“A beverage of leisure is a serious business,” Shane Bowermaster was known to declare. “There can be no product of pleasure without the inverse on the end of the producer.”
― Jeff Phillips, Whiskey Pike: A Bedtime Story for the Drinking Mankind

“A smart factory is one where the inputs are simplified, the capabilities are maximized, and there is close proximity to the point of consumption.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Time must be converted into product”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Every minute, hour and hour that passes daily should be converted into product”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Your daily product determines your output”
― Sunday Adelaja

“I saw myself as a person that wanted to build their own house and was aware that I needed to have all the skills and know-how of house building. I knew I needed to learn everything from design to bricklaying to painting to electrics if I wanted to have the house that I envisioned. I am a very much a hands-on person and I learn from doing. Hopefully I can now pass on some of what I have learned on to you. ”
― Teddy Hayes, The Guerrilla Guide To Being A Theatrical Producer

“The ledger’s double-entry pages and the neat grid of the invoice gave purposeful shape to the story they told. Through their graphic simplicity and economy, invoices and ledgers effaced the personal histories that fueled the slaving economy. Containing only what could fit within the clean lines of their columns and rows, they reduced an enormous system of traffic in human commodities to a concise chronicle of quantitative ‘facts.’ Thus, Mary Poove writes, ‘like the closet, the conventions of double-entry bookkeeping were intended to manage or contain excess.’ Instruments such as these did their work, then, while concealing the messiness of history, erasing from view the politics that underlay the neat account keeping.

The slave traders (and much of the modern economic literature on the slave trade) regarded the slave ship’s need for volume as a self-evident ‘fact’ of economic rationalization: the Board of Trade’s reports, the balance pursued in the Royal African Company’s double-entry ledgers, the calculations that determined how many captive bodies a ship could ‘conveniently stow,’ the simple equation by which an agent at the company’s factory at Whydah promised ‘to Complie with delivering in every ten days 100 Negroes.’ But the perceptions of the African captives themselves differed from the slave trader’s economies of scale and rationalized efficiency of production. What appears in the European quantitative account as a seamless expansion in the volume of slave exports—evidence of the natural workings of the market—took the form of violent rifts in the political geography of the Gold Coast. People for whom the Atlantic market had been a distant and hazy presence with little direct consequence for their lives now found themselves swept up in wars and siphoned into a type of captivity without precedent.”
― Stephanie E. Smallwood, Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora

“An improvement is not always worth it.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Can-Do Attitude: Essential to develop because all along the way people will hit you with questions like: Is it worth it? Why is it taking so long? This is a very hard business isn’t it? Are you sure you’re doing the right thing? and other questions that might make you doubt yourself. Just keep doing what you are doing and decide that whatever you need to do you will find a way to do and that you can do it, even though at the moment, you might not know how.”
― Teddy Hayes, The Guerrilla Guide To Being A Theatrical Producer

“Excessive gas production with a putrid smell and loose or soft stools indicates that poor digestion is present.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“I would be sitting in my office watching the Desoto Solar Farm on my computer and I would see massive megawatt drops in power production for no apparent reason.”
― Steven Magee

“The multiplication of technologies in the name of efficiency is actually eradicating free time by making it possible to maximize the time and place for production and minimize the unstructured travel time in between. New timesaving technologies make most workers more productive, not more free, in a world which seems to be accelerating around them.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“Farmers must be supported with subsidy to boost production of food.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

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I don’t take trips out of town, the city, state or country to do the same things I can do at home in my city. I go for the sake of experiencing something different- be it a cultural, dining experience or entertainment that I can’t get where I Iive, because why else leave the house?”
― Niedria Kenny

“And the system pretends to go along, to become more supple and resourceful, less dependent on rigid categories. But even as desire tends to specialize, going silky and intimate, the force of converging markets produces an instantaneous capital that shoots across horizons at the speed of light, making for a certain furtive sameness, a planing away of particulars that affects everything from architecture to leisure time to the way people eat and sleep and dream.”
― Don DeLillo, Underworld

“Here is a possible pharmacopornographic definition of sexuality: a techno-organic activity corresponding to the type of work praxis in which—to follow Marx’s formulation—
“production is inseparable from the act of producing” and is thus “an activity that has no end product,” because it is “a practice that finds its own achievement in itself, without becoming objectified in any outcome that exceeds it.”
― Paul B. Preciado, Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era

“God is a great gaffer.”
― Dennis Hopper

“The People's Republic of China thrives on a simple fact: production powers progress.”
― Segun Alonge Jr