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

“What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty and above all it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits out quantity.”
― William S. Burroughs

“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

“Your daily product determines your value”
― Sunday Adelaja

“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

“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

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

“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 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

“In the course of the First Five-Year Plan, production aims were upped to impossible heights. The result was chaotic, and many of the local political leaders, factory bosses, planners, engineers, foremen, and even shop floor workers developed ways to exaggerate their accomplishments.”
― Kees Boterbloem, Life in Stalin's Soviet Union

“Anytime we step outside of the realm of the market economy and
monetary calculation, the social system must attempt to provide a substitute for property, prices, and profit-and-loss to align incentives, guide decisions, lure entrants and innovation, and discipline and select superior methods of production to reveal opportunities for mutually beneficial cooperation. Whether or not these substitutes can effectively serve the function that the price system does is the crux of the debate in comparative institutional analysis.”
― Peter Boettke, The Socialist Calculation Debate: Theory, History, and Contemporary Relevance

“Invoking the term “working class” instantly draws up images of men in overalls toiling on production lines, and it’s common to hear otherwise intelligent middle-class intellectuals suggest that, with the decline of factory work, the working class in, say, Britain or America no longer exists—as if it were actually ingeniously constructed androids that were driving their buses, trimming their hedges, installing their cables, or changing their grandparents’ bedpans. In fact, there was never a time most workers worked in factories. Even in the days of Karl Marx, or Charles Dickens, working-class neighborhoods housed far more maids, bootblacks, dustmen, cooks, nurses, cabbies, schoolteachers, prostitutes, caretakers, and costermongers than employees in coal mines, textile mills, or iron foundries. Are these former jobs “productive”? In what sense and for whom? Who “produces” a soufflé?”
― David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

“Consciousness is often born from production, by our relation to production; to live is to create.”
― Rafael Nicolás, Angels Before Man

“Producing a series-regardless of the genre, including BL-is a form of art. It's a way of telling stories about human relationships. This process requires professionalism, mutual respect, and genuine commitment from everyone on set to create a quality piece that can truly touch the audience's hearts.”
― Noeul Nuttarat Tangwai

“Since consumption attracts spending and production attracts earning, becoming a net producer may help you better fulfill your holistic needs. It may also endow you with abilities to become more useful to others, and you may even increase your sense of accomplishment and self-esteem.”
― Thomas Lu, The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond