#raw material

Manufacturers employ more than 14 million Americans doing what Americans do best, making things, building things, transforming raw materials into finished products. ↗

— John Engler

#building #doing #employ #finished #into

Costs of manufactured articles importantly depend on the cost of raw materials as well as labour. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#cost #costs #depend #importantly #labour

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#always #appreciated #because #cliches #copies

The prices of raw materials do not fluctuate directly with the labour cost of producing them. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#directly #fluctuate #labour #materials #prices

A laborer no longer makes whole articles. He receives raw materials, puts his touch on them, and passes them to another worker in the series. When the articles are quite finished they are carried out of sight by currents of commercial exchange. These currents are untraceable. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#articles #carried #commercial #currents #exchange

Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials. ↗

— Joseph Hume

#fortunately #her #imports #materials #raw

The greatest untapped reservoir of raw material in the history of our game is the black race. ↗

— Branch Rickey

#game #greatest #history #material #our

The very necessity of bringing our armament up to a certain level as rapidly as possible must place in the foreground the idea of as large returns as possible in foreign exchange and therewith the greatest possible assurance of raw material supplies, through exporting. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#assurance #bringing #certain #certain level #exchange

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting. ↗

— Viggo Mortensen

#director #hue #just #makes #material

Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials. ↗

— Thor Heyerdahl

#beginning #civilization #communication #each #enabled