Charles E. Wilson Quotes

• Canada has great natural resources, and its people have the spirit and ability to develop them.

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  Tags in Spirit, Natural

• A study of the history of wages back through the years indicates clearly that when the cost-of-living rises appreciably wages have shortly been adjusted upward also.

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  Tags in Back, Adjusted

• Costs of manufactured articles importantly depend on the cost of raw materials as well as labour.

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  Tags in Depend, Material

• For more than 150 years free men in our countries have had the opportunities to educate themselves, choose their own religions, select their own occupations, accumulate capital and invent better ways of doing things.

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  Tags in Opportunities

• In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a people ever achieved anywhere in the world. This is why I am so sure that our system of free competition and industrial development is sound and must be preserved.

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• Furthermore, the spirit of enterprise which had its first intellectual development in England has especially flourished here as well as throughout all of Canada, while the same spirit has become less virile in the land of its origin.

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• No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.

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  Topics in Society

  Tags in Socialism, Few

• No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time – but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.

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  Tags in Person, Doing

• No one should be so naive as to think that wages among organized groups will not be increased, under pressure if necessary, to make up for increases in the cost-of-living, nor should anyone ordinarily object to such adjustments.

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  Tags in Pressure, Organized

• Our recent 5-year labour agreements, in Canada as well as the United States, are based upon experience, logic and principle rather than on pressure, propaganda and force.

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  Tags in Rather, Principle

• Our thinking behind these agreements is that we want all jobs in General Motors to be good jobs.

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• Our expanding Canadian operations are concrete evidence of General Motors confidence in Canada.

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  Tags in General, Evidence

• That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization.

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  Tags in Better, Through

• The only sound approach to collective bargaining is to work out an agreement that clarifies the rights and responsibilities of the parties, establishes principles and operates to the advantage of all concerned.

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  Tags in Advantage, Rights

• That it is logical, fair and reasonable to maintain the purchasing power of an hour’s work in terms of goods and services the employee must purchase in his daily living.

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  Tags in Reasonable, Daily

• There is no royal road; you’ve got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

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• The thing that contributes to anyone’s reaching the goal he wants is simple wanting that goal badly enough.

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  Tags in Simple, Enough

• The prices of raw materials do not fluctuate directly with the labour cost of producing them.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Labour, Directly

• There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.

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  Tags in Level, People

• Unfortunately, in collective bargaining one party or the other too often tries to gain an advantage – a bargain, like buying something in a store for less than it is worth.

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  Tags in Worth, Unfortunately

Charles E. Wilson (21)

Birth:	18th November, 1886
Death:	3rd January, 1972
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businessman

About

Charles Edward Wilson was born in New York City. He was a CEO of General Electric. Wilson left school at the age of 12 to work as a stock boy at the Sprague Electrical Works, which was acquired by the General Electric Company. Wilson returned to General Electric in 1945 and began an antiunion campaign, and he also served President Harry S. Truman as the chairman of the blue-ribbon President's Committee on Civil Rights during 1946 - 47. This committee recommended new Civil Rights legislation to protect "all parts of our population".

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