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E. F. Schumacher
English
Economist
About the author
You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.
E. F. Schumacher,
English
Economist
#Will
#Purpose
#Order
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
E. F. Schumacher,
English
Economist
#Technology
#Man
#Self
#Nature
The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
E. F. Schumacher,
English
Economist
#Press
#Printing
Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
E. F. Schumacher,
English
Economist
#Company
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
E. F. Schumacher,
English
Economist
#Love
#People
#Hate
It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.
E. F. Schumacher,
English
Economist
#Work
#Production
#Income
#Employees
Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.
E. F. Schumacher,
English
Economist
#World
#Growth
#Infinite
#Impossibility
Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
E. F. Schumacher,
English
Economist
#Will
#Eagles