“Now, I love a good factory tour. Drop me into a bottling plant, an aut...” — Marc Randolph Quote

“Now, I love a good factory tour. Drop me into a bottling plant, an automotive assembly line, or a jellybean factory, and I'm happy as a clam at high tide.”

“Companies have centers of gravity. Where they are is part of their identity.”

“I'm not a glass-half-full optimist. I'm a glass-overflowing optimist.”

“Silicon Valley loves a good origin story.”

“The simple reason I like every idea is that I'm an optimist.”

“People watch 'The Social Network,' and what they hone in on is the wealth and the parties and the excitement, and they don't realize the grind and the 'gruelingness' and the disappointment.”

“Aska is going to create history and show the way to the entire country by sending a member of women SHG to Parliament and four women members to the state assembly.”

“My first job at General Motors was as a quality inspector on the assembly line. I was checking fits between hoods and fenders. I had a little scale and clipboard. At one point, I was probably examining 60 jobs an hour during an eight-hour shift. A job like that teaches you to value all the people who do a job like that.”

“The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits working on the General Livestock Corporation assembly line putting udders on cows.”

“As CEO of Aetna, I was a buyer of portfolio companies rather than a participant in the value creation process. From the end of the assembly line, what happened in manufacturing wasn't visible to me.”

“Robotics has already made significant inroads in electronics assembly, with sewing trades - traditionally many countries' first entry point to the global trading system - likely to come next.”