Industry Trend Quotes

Globally, manufacturing jobs are on the decline, simply because productivity growth has outpaced growth in demand.

The film industry is moving towards digital technology.

The industry trend is that everything is moving to the cloud, and most of our customers are in this very heterogeneous world.

We fully expect our competitors to join us in embracing open standards with their next redesigns.

I started looking at small companies that were running a sort of virtual reality cottage industry: I had imagined that I would just put on a helmet and be somewhere else - that's your dream of what it's going to be.

I feel like, as an industry, we've gotten too dependent on source material originated in other mediums.

Warner Bros., where I spent pretty much most of my professional life, they continue to make a lot of movies but so many of the studios are pulling back.

Everyone wants to work with the big new producer or the hot new singer. The key is to find them before they're hot.

The wireless segment is approximately 50 percent of our business... we believe this is an industry-wide phenomenon and that we are, in fact, maintaining if not gaining market share.

I have not seen a true grounds-up revolution from a bunch of companies getting together. It takes one company to put it together, then people draft off of that, but they don't build it top to bottom with a specific vision.

Some years ago one oil company bought a fertilizer company, and every other major oil company practically ran out and bought a fertilizer company. And there was no more damned reason for all these oil companies to buy fertilizer companies, but they didn't know exactly what to do, and if Exxon was doing it, it was good enough for Mobil and vice versa.

If one artist sells five million albums, the tendency is for other artists to say, 'Maybe I should do a little of that, too.' That can be tough to resist.

We've grown from 18% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry to 23% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry over the last five years. Profits are up over 70%, where the industry profit is up about 35%. Pretty good.

The talent curve in game-making is going straight up to Heaven.

Advertising holding companies used to boast about their share of the advertising market. Now they are proud of how much of their business is not in advertising.

The cost of a semiconductor chip fabrication plant doubles every four years.

The biotechnology wave is similar to the information technology wave of the 1980s and 1990s.

I think that that multiplatform development is what's on the mind of most high-end PC developers now... this is really the first time in the industry's history that we've had console machines that can handle all that PC developers can deliver.

I'm not bothered when other VCs start hiring great designers or start recruiting. That's the direction I'd like it to go.

I still remember my dismay in the summer of 2007 when - for the first time in the history of planet Earth - America's share of auto production dropped below 50 percent.

I think that the entertainment industry itself has a history of chasing success. Any time a hit product comes out, all the other companies start chasing after that success and trying to recreate it by putting out similar products.

Any hit films, impact-creating films, leave their mark on the industry. It is in human nature to try to follow something that is creating an impact.

The only thing the record companies put out now is 'Best of,'

A lot of good actors are turning to TV.

Hype tends to precede the reality in biotech, but the reality does follow. Usually.