E F Schumacher Quotes (8 quotations)
1. Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction. - E F Schumacher
2. Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes. - E F Schumacher
3. Many people love in themselves what they hate in others. - E F Schumacher
4. Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market. - E F Schumacher
5. Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees. - E F Schumacher
6. The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is. - E F Schumacher
7. The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology. - E F Schumacher
8. You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need. - E F Schumacher
2. Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes. - E F Schumacher
3. Many people love in themselves what they hate in others. - E F Schumacher
4. Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market. - E F Schumacher
5. Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees. - E F Schumacher
6. The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is. - E F Schumacher
7. The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology. - E F Schumacher
8. You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need. - E F Schumacher
