Industry
Quotes
For an infant industry, protection is a legitimate demand, but infants must grow up one day.
Speech (1971)
The task of industry is continuously, year on year, to make more and better things, using less of the world's resources.
Making It Happen (1988)
Any rigidity by an automobile manufacturer, no matter how large or how well established, is severely penalized in the market.
My Years with General Motors (1964)
Industry must manage to keep wages high and prices low. Otherwise it will limit the number of its customers. One's own employees should be one's best customers.
Quoted in The American Treasury 1455-1955 (Clifton Fadiman, ed.; 1955)
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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