Explore a collection of the most beloved and motivational quotes and sayings about Manufacturing. Share these powerful messages with your loved ones on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, or on your personal blog, and inspire the world with their wisdom. We've compiled the Top 100 Manufacturing Quotes and Sayings from 91 influential authors, including Ratan Tata,Christina Romer,Anthony Pratt,Michelle Rempel,An Na, for you to enjoy and share.

There has not been a conscious view of re-energising manufacturing. So, in some form, someone has to wave the Union Jack in the area of manufacturing. By Ratan Tata Manufacturing Conscious View Reenergising Union

A successful argument for a government manufacturing policy has to go beyond the feeling that it's better to produce 'real things' than services. American consumers value health care and haircuts as much as washing machines and hair dryers. By Christina Romer Produce Real Services Successful Argument

My vision for Visy Tumut is not only to keep our position as an example of world's sustainable manufacturing, but to build on it. By Anthony Pratt Visy Tumut Manufacturing Vision Position

To keep up with the demands of the growing manufacturing sector, our Government is pleased to invest in the establishment of the Saskatchewan Manufacturing Centre of Excellence. Training skilled workers and increasing productivity and innovation are essential to the continued growth and prosperity of Saskatchewan, and Western Canada. By Michelle Rempel Manufacturing Excellence Government Centre Saskatchewan

A massive amount of quantity with a deliberate focus on improvement leads to the knowledge and experience of how to make quality. By An Na Quality Massive Amount Quantity Deliberate

Invest your time in producing product or service By Sunday Adelaja Invest Service Time Producing Product

There is nothing higher-class than real craftsmanship, diversity, originality and the service of skilled human hands. By Bryant Mcgill Diversity Craftsmanship Originality Hands Higherclass

The main difference between service and manufacturing is the service department doesn't know that they have a product. By W. Edwards Deming Product Service Main Difference Manufacturing

The most striking about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little. Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's ordinary powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed. By E.f. Schumacher Modern Industry Striking Requires Accomplishes

I want to continue making things. By Hideo Kojima Things Continue Making

If you can't, or don't wish to, cut back production, then try to manufacture demand - the story of the twentieth century? By Thomas Thwaites Cut Production Demand Century Back

As the editor-in-chief of the do-it-yourself magazine 'Make,' I've met scores of dedicated makers. They come from all walks of life - rich, poor, young, old, male, female, religious, atheist, liberal, conservative. By Mark Frauenfelder Make Magazine Makers Met Scores

For years, I have worked diligently to develop and implement a 21st century manufacturing strategy that will create jobs in the new clean energy economy. By Debbie Stabenow Years Century Economy Worked Diligently

We live in such a service-based, globalised economy where very few people actually make anything and the people who do make stuff ... it's all part of a massive global supply chain. So what if all those chains were suddenly cut, how would you make something? How would you keep people alive? And that was something I wanted to explore. By Max Brooks Servicebased Globalised Stuff Make People

Technology paces industry, but there's a long lag in the process. By R. Buckminster Fuller Technology Industry Process Paces Long

You must have a supplier relationship of constant improvement. By W. Edwards Deming Improvement Supplier Relationship Constant

Engineers knew precisely what each part should look like, and there was a small surprise when the supplier was found to be taking metal out of certain components. One key part that weighed about 48 kilograms was coming in at less than 90 percent of its intended weight. The factory had taken the weight reduction as a cost savings for itself and had passed only the resulting product risk on to Build By Paul Midler Engineers Components Part Knew Precisely

A single factory, potentially capable of supplying a whole continent with its particular product, cannot afford to wait until the public asks for its product; it must maintain constant touch, through advertising and propaganda, with the vast public in order to assure itself the continuous demand which alone will make its costly plant profitable. By Edward Bernays Product Public Factory Potentially Touch

Once you begin to mass-manufacture anything, by the very nature of the process, you lose the sense of personal attachment you might have to something made by hand. By Jim Butcher Process Hand Begin Massmanufacture Nature

The new industrial world is coming to us one new free-born industry at a time. By Gerald Stanley Lee Time Industrial World Coming Freeborn

Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry. By Mark Cuban Figure Industry Selling Start Business

What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up. By Barbara Kruger Expensive Makes Production Work Thing

I care deeply about craft: the quality of how something is made and the experience it enables. By Kevin Systrom Craft Enables Care Deeply Quality

This is an age of mass production. In the mass production of materials a broad technique has been developed and applied to their distribution. In this age, too, there must be a technique for the mass distribution of ideas. By Edward Bernays Mass Production Age Technique Distribution

My first love is producing. By Timbaland Producing Love

A Deed knocks first at Thought And then - it knocks at Will - That is the manufacturing spot. By Emily Dickinson Deed Thought Spot Knocks Manufacturing

As an economic historian, I appreciate what manufacturing has contributed to the United States. It was the engine of growth that allowed us to win two world wars and provided millions of families with a ticket to the middle class. But public policy needs to go beyond sentiment and history. By Christina Romer States United Historian Economic Manufacturing

Since the introduction of inanimate mechanism into British manufactories, man, with few exceptions, has been treated as a secondary and inferior machine; and far more attention has been given to perfect the raw materials of wood and metals than those of body and mind. By Robert Owen Man British Manufactories Exceptions Machine

Some countries were able to turn their manufacturing operations into advanced technology areas. South Korea is a great example of this, and manufacturing there is done using advanced technological methods. By Stef Wertheimer Areas Manufacturing Advanced Countries Turn

If you don't manufacture a quality product all you've got at the end is a bunch of expensive mistakes. By Eliyahu M. Goldratt Mistakes Manufacture Quality Product End

We're at a moment where people are rediscovering their ability to design, to create (engineer)and in essence, to become a true maker. By Brit Morin Engineer Design Create Essence Maker

We interrogate the world by making. By Bill Bendyshe Burnett Making Interrogate World

Product is an output of efforts, skills and time By Sunday Adelaja Product Efforts Skills Time Output

I want labor to be the point, because everything in our lives is miraculously made with no idea of how it's done. As an active and critical consumer, and as someone who has attempted to make the flawless and failed, I wanted a transparency of construction here. If we know how it is made and how it falls apart, we will know how to rebuild it. By Tom Sachs Point Labor Lives Miraculously Idea

The financial benefits of prefabrication have never been as large as its advocates predicted, for although some labor costs can be reduced by machine manufacturing, on-site assembly of any building still depends to some extent on the handwork of skilled craftsmen. By Martin Filler Predicted Manufacturing Onsite Craftsmen Financial

I'm an artist. I'm interested in how art gets made. By Patti Smith Artist Made Interested Art

I love creating things, especially out of metal. There's something truly satisfying about shaping a piece of metal and seeing the impurities peeling away as you weld it into your chosen design. By Sean Bean Things Metal Love Creating Design

Making is the mirror in which we see ourselves. By Frank Bidart Making Mirror

A manufacturing resurgence is what will give local communities and small towns across America a fighting chance for survival. Many of today's American entrepreneurs come from those very places but make their wealth elsewhere. We need to change that. By Hamdi Ulukaya America Survival Manufacturing Resurgence Give

The kind of precision manufacturing epitomized in the armories, while it was important, was only a small share of the economy until quite late in the century. Large-scale natural resource development and processing was the name of the game. By Charles R. Morris Armories Important Century Kind Precision

Ohio plastics plant, had By Stephen King Ohio Plant Plastics

The factory might have given us the millionfold productivity increases that yielded the Industrial Revolution, but it achieved those gains by chaining us to machines, deskilling the artisan and turning him into a cog in the factory, stripped of judgment and dignity and disconnected from the rhythms of his spirit and the world around him. By William Gibson Factory Revolution Industrial Machines Deskilling

The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures. By Charles Babbage Manufactures Economy Human Time Advantage

In order for a society to survive, it must generate a sufficient level of physical production both to meet its current needs, and to produce a surplus for upgrading its productive powers. By Robert Trout Survive Powers Order Society Generate

We manufacture automotive components including critical engine and axle parts for passenger cars, diesel engines and medium & heavy commercial vehicles. Till 1997, our focus was almost entirely on the domestic market with a relatively insignificant portion of revenues from exports. By Baba Kalyani Cars Diesel Medium Heavy Vehicles

A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of the most trivial conveniences and comfort. By B.f. Skinner Reduce Prevent Damage Vast Technology

Producing is a thankless task akin to hotel management. Unfortunately, there are not too many good hotel managers. By David Hemmings Producing Management Hotel Thankless Task

Quality comes not from inspection, but from improvement of the production process. By W. Edwards Deming Quality Inspection Process Improvement Production

Just as the Japanese pioneered a new form of manufacturing - lean production and quite new standards of reliability - so Tata, too, is embracing new forms of manufacture in order to revolutionise the price to meet the consumer needs of a poor, developing country. By Martin Jacques Tata Japanese Manufacturing Lean Reliability

The Maker is the one who is part of what he makes. By Orson Scott Card Maker Makes Part

First I have tried to achieve the highest quality of technical facility possible so that I have at my fingertips the availability to create anything I want. Then I paint. By Audrey Flack Achieve Highest Quality Technical Facility

How can we make sure we wind up behind the right door when the going gets tough? The answer is: craftsmanship. By Robert C. Martin Tough Make Wind Door Craftsmanship

You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things. By Marc Newson Bottles Things People Make Watches

If there is one thing clear about the centuries dominated by the factory and the wheel, it is that although the machine can make everything from a spoon to a landing-craft, a natural joy in earthly living is something it never has and never will be able to manufacture. By Henry Beston Wheel Landingcraft Manufacture Thing Clear

Eliminating business taxes makes US best at manufacturing. By Jim Demint Eliminating Manufacturing Business Taxes Makes

The modern corporation must manufacture not only goods but the desire for the goods it manufactures. By John Kenneth Galbraith Goods Modern Corporation Desire Manufacture

Schools vast factories for the manufacture of robots. By Robert M. Lindner Schools Robots Vast Factories Manufacture

Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant. By Ralph Merkle Manufacturing Facilities Place Large Chip

technical marketers, By Anonymous Technical Marketers

It is the accuracy and detail inherent in crafted goods that endows them with lasting value. It is the time and attention paid by the carpenter, the seamstress and the tailor that makes this detail possible. By Tim Jackson Detail Accuracy Inherent Crafted Goods

Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work. By Peter Drucker Production Materials Work Application Tools

manufacturers using patents, By Eric Von Hippel Manufacturers Patents

I would draw a really sharp distinction between creating and producing. I think that they're very different things. By Eleanor Catton Producing Draw Sharp Distinction Creating

factory's problems arose from the introduction of an industrial process in a country with a language and culture stuck in the Middle Ages. The By Antonio Garrido Ages Middle Factory Problems Arose

My work is all about how we consume. To me it's important to know where things come from. Generally, our products today are so cheap, you know there's something wrong. Things are not made in a good way. I want to make things that are. I want to make the story behind products visible. By Christien Meindertsma Consume Things Work Make Products

The growing complexity of science, technology, and organization does not imply either a growing knowledge or a growing need for knowledge in the general population. On the contrary, the increasingly complex processes tend to lead to increasingly simple and easily understood products. The genius of mass production is precisely in its making more products more accessible, both economically and intellectually to more people. By Thomas Sowell Growing Knowledge Technology Science Population

An organization is a factory that manufactures judgments and decisions. Every factory must have ways to ensure the quality of its products in the initial design, in fabrication, and in final inspections. The corresponding stages in the production of decisions are the framing of the problem that is to be solved, the collection of relevant information leading to a decision, and reflection and review. An organization that seeks to improve its decision product should routinely look for efficiency improvements at each of these stages. The By Daniel Kahneman Factory Manufactures Judgments Organization Decisions

If it were possible for any one person or group of persons to go through a photographic finishing plant's work at the end of a day, you could probably pull out the most extraordinary photographic exhibition we've ever seen. On almost any subject. The trouble is to find the things. By Edward Steichen Photographic Day Group Finishing Plant

The task of industry is continuously, year on year, to make more and better things, using less of the world's resources. By John Harvey-Jones Continuously Things Resources Year Task

For a sculptor, a painter, a weaver, a potter, the dialogue between one's materials and what one makes from them is easy to see: discover a new material or a new way to use a familiar one, and new things can be made, sometimes leading to the discovery of more new material, leading to more creation. By Andrea Barrett Leading Material Sculptor Painter Weaver

I started manufacturing bicycle parts. I come from a city called Ludhiana where almost everybody is self-employed, and either you make bicycle parts or bicycles, or hosiery parts or hosiery goods. By Sunil Mittal Parts Bicycle Started Manufacturing Hosiery

Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising. By Christopher Lasch Relentless Merchandising Improvement Product Upgrading

I'm one of the few people up here who actually believes that we need a level playing field when it comes to manufacturing. That means a good tax code, a good regulatory environment, low energy prices, better opportunities for workers to get training. By Rick Santorum Manufacturing People Level Playing Field

Production is something I've never come to terms with. By Robyn Hitchcock Production Terms

First learn to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; ... By Friedrich Nietzsche Learn Construct Parts Properly Ventures

The customer is the most important part of the production line. By W. Edwards Deming Line Customer Important Part Production

Being a Milliner's about standing up for what's right, for those who can't stand up for themselves. By Frank Beddor Milliner Standing Stand

I am a maker of useful things. By Eva Zeisel Things Maker

We are using new technologies in meaningful ways. To build our new refinery in 60 percent of the time it took to build our first, we are training 20,000 people in a new generation of welding technology in six months. By Mukesh Ambani Build Technologies Meaningful Percent Training

A very big passion of mine and that of the people that run our production is finding factories that have fair labor practices and treating them more like partners in our family than people just who are going to produce for us. By Blake Mycoskie People Big Passion Mine Run

This figuring-out step is crucial, since overly optimistic economic models have often assumed that demand and incentives are enough to stimulate the production of any product. Incentives work to motivate intermediaries and traders, but makers, who are the ones that provide the substance of what is traded, need more than an incentive to make something. They need to know how to do it. By Cesar Hidalgo Crucial Product Incentives Figuringout Step

At a time when we are losing manufacturing jobs in this country, we should be doing everything we can to help our manufacturers stay competitive. They are the backbone of our economy. By Debbie Stabenow Country Competitive Time Losing Manufacturing

You need to know your craft. By Lorena Garcia Craft

The manufacturing corporation, except in comparatively few instances, no longer represents a protecting care, a parental influence, over its operatives. It is too often a soulless organization; and its members forget that they are morally responsible for the souls and bodies, as well as for the wages, of those whose labor is the source of their wealth. By Harriet Hanson Robinson Corporation Instances Care Influence Operatives

I want to make beautiful clothes for women and men who appreciate detail and quality. The product must be the best but this is almost secondary to the service the customer will receive. By Tom Ford Quality Make Beautiful Clothes Women

New product and new types of service are generated, not by asking the consumer, but by knowledge, imagination, innovation, risk, trial and error on the part of the producer, backed by enough capital to develop the product or service and to stay in business during the learn months of introduction. By W. Edwards Deming Imagination Innovation Risk Product Service

Quality is pride of workmanship. By W. Edwards Deming Quality Workmanship Pride

Crafting, or 'making things,' has always been a delightful pastime of mine because it requires putting common elements together in order to achieve a lovely something that nobody needs. By Amy Sedaris Crafting Making Things Delightful Pastime

We're on the brink of the next industrial revolution. Instead of buying things, you can make them on a printer. When you have a 3D printer, you can iterate more - what used to take months, now takes hours. By Bre Pettis Revolution Printer Brink Industrial Things

old textile mill, which was in the process of being By Richard Russo Mill Textile Process

We hire people who want to make the best things in the world. By Steve Jobs World Hire People Make Things

You lose manufacturing jobs, you rarely ever get them back again. By Graydon Carter Jobs Lose Manufacturing Rarely Back

This crusading spirit of the managers and engineers, the idea of designing and manufacturing and distributing being sort of a holy war: all that folklore was cooked up by public relations and advertising men hired by managers and engineers to make big business popular in the old days, which it certainly wasn't in the beginning. Now, the engineers and managers believe with all their hearts the glorious things their forebears hired people to say about them. Yesterday's snow job becomes today's sermon. By Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Managers Engineers War Days Beginning

Manufacturers ... gradually shift their places, leaving those countries and provinces which they have already enriched, and flying to others, whether they are allured by the cheapness of provisions and labour. By David Hume Manufacturers Gradually Places Leaving Enriched

Craft is part of the creative process. By Gavin Bryars Craft Process Part Creative

In product development, our greatest waste is not unproductive engineers, but work products sitting idle in process queues. By Donald G. Reinertsen Development Engineers Queues Greatest Waste

Since last year I've been making the rounds talking to just about anyone who'll listen about this opportunity to re-establish a manufacturing base in the U.S. By Bill Simon Year Making Rounds Talking Listen

I'd love to be part of the process of building cars. By Bubba Watson Cars Love Part Process Building

In a world where routine production is footloose ... competitive advantage lies not in one-time breakthroughs but in continual improvements. Stable technologies get away. By Robert Reich Footloose World Routine Production Competitive

Churning, baking, spinning and soap-making. In summer, By Elizabeth Enright Churning Baking Spinning Soapmaking Summer