Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.

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

Not mass production but production by the masses.

Development does not start with goods; it starts with people and their education, organization, and discipline. Without these three, all resources remain latent, untapped, potential.

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.

An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods. . . .

There is no economic problem and, in a sense, there never has been.