From the point of view of the employer, it is in any case simply an item of cost, to be reduced to a minimum if it cannot be eliminated altogether, say, by automation. From the point of view of the workman, it is a "disutility"; to work is to make a sacrifice of one's leisure and comfort, and wages are a kind of compensation for the sacrifice.

The fundamental task is to achieve smallness within large organisation.

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.

Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear

Nobody really likes large-scale organizations; nobody likes to take orders from a superior who takes orders from a superior who takes orders.

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market

I have no doubt that it is possible to give a new direction to technological development, a direction that shall lead it back to the real needs of man, and that also means: to the actual size of man. Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful.