Big business is basic to the very life of this country; and yet many -perhaps most - Americans have a deep-seated fear and an emotional repugnance to it. Here is monumental contradiction.
David LilienthalWe keep saying, 'We have no other course.' What we should say is: 'We are not bright enough to see any other course.'
David LilienthalThe subject of management is man; the objective of management is the moving of man's mind and will and imagination.
David LilienthalIt is chiefly upon the lay citizen, informed about science but not its practitioner, that the country must depend in determining the use to which science is put, in resolving the many public policy questions that scientific discoveries constantly force upon us.
David Lilienthal