Our task is to look at the world, and see it whole.

Much of the economic decay of southeast Asia (as of many other parts of the world) is undoubtedly due to a heedless and shameful neglect of trees.

Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side

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

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.

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.

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.