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

The fundamental task is to achieve smallness within large organisation.

The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.

After all, for mankind as a whole there are no exports. We did not start developing by obtaining foreign exchange from Mars or the moon. Mankind is a closed society.

It has been universally recognized, in all authentic teachings of mankind, that every being born into this world has to work, not merely to keep himself alive, but to strive towards perfection.

Is there enough to go around? What is enough? Who can tell us? Certainly not the economist who pursues economic growth as the highest of all values, and therefore has no concept of enough.

Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.