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"None of our men are 'experts.' We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job... Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible."
"The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world a better place in which to live."
"The farther you look back, the farther you can look ahead."
"No one will ever get anywhere in this world unless he becomes a teacher, one who can show others how to do things."
"My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer-but it was because of what my grandfather did to him."
"What we call evil, it seems to me, is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark."
"Every success is the mother of countless others."
"Every man is entitled to make a darn fool of himself at least once in a lifetime."
"I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible."
"Improved productivity means less human sweat, not more."
"I adopted the theory of Reincarnation when I was twenty six. Religion offered nothing to the point. Even work could not give me complete satisfaction. Work is futile if we cannot utilise the experience we collect in one life in the next. When I discovered Reincarnation... time was no longer limited. I was no longer a slave to the hands of the clock... I would like to communicate to others the calmness that the long view of life gives to us."
"Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist and you will sweep war from the earth."
"I didn't get much peace, but I heard in Norway that Russia might well become a huge market for tractors soon."
"As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty and special privilege grow"
"A low wage business is always insecure."
"Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage."
"The only motive that can keep politics pure is the motive of doing good for one's country and its people."
"Borrowing for expansion is one thing; borrowing to make up for mismanagement and waste is quite another."
"When one speaks of increasing power, machinery, and industry there comes up a picture of a cold, metallic sort of world in which great factories will drive away the trees, the flowers, the birds, and the green fields. And that then we shall have a world composed of metal machines and human machines. With all of that I do not agree. I think that unless we know more about the machines and their use, unless we better understand the mechanical portion of life, we cannot have the time to enjoy the trees, and the birds, and the flowers, and the green fields."
"Money is worth what it will help you to produce or buy and no more."