A Commonplace Book

Category: industry...

  • primary industry includes agriculture, forestry, fishing, mining, etc.; secondary or manufacturing industry processes the raw materials (etc.); tertiary or service industry includes retail, finance, travel, etc.
  • industry keeps the body healthy, the mind clear, the heart whole, the purse full
  • Life without industry is guilt, industry without art is brutality. (J. Ruskin)
  • Industry is a better horse to ride than genius. (W. Lippmann)
  • It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. (T. Jefferson)
  • the sectors include: raw material extraction, refining and manufacturing, services and the distribution of manufactured goods, and the knowledge industry focused on technological research and development
  • more than 200 years ago, changes took place in industry that transformed society and altered the way goods were made
  • the textile industry was the first to be mechanized in the 1700s
  • people used to make goods in their homes, but machines took manufacturing into factories
  • any sort of activity that is done to create wealth is known as industry

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