I cannot predict the wind but I can have my sail ready.

Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.

The fundamental task is to achieve smallness within large organisation.

We think work with the brain is more worthy than work with the hands. Nobody who thinks with his hands could ever fall for this.

Study how a society uses its land, and you can come to pretty reliable conclusions as to what its future will be.

To organize work in such a manner that it becomes meaningless, boring, stultifying, or nerve-racking for the worker would be little short of criminal; it would indicate a greater concern with goods than with people, an evil lack of compassion and a soul-destroying degree of attachment to the most primitive side of this worldly existence.

Why precisely do we want to change land ownership? The answer seems to me to be quite clear: to inhibit land speculation, to inhibit the private exploitation of the scarcity-value of land, to inhibit as we might say the cornering of land.