E. F. Schumacher Quotes

• 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.

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• I have no doubt that it is possible to give a new direction to technological development, a direction that shall lead it back to the real needs of man, and that also means: to the actual size of man. Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful. To go for giantism is to go for self-destruction.

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• Small Is Beautiful: a Study of Economics as if People Mattered.

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• Eagles come in all shapes and sizes but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.

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• 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.

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

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• Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.

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• 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.

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• If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.

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• 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.

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• Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.

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• An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth – in short, materialism – does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.

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• The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

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• Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

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• Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

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E. F. Schumacher (15)

Birth:	16th August, 1911
Death:	4th September, 1977
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Economist, Statistician, Writer

About

Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher was born in Bonn, Germany. He was an internationally influential economic thinker, statistician, writer, and economist in Britain, serving as Chief Economic Advisor to the UK National Coal Board for two decades. He is best known for his critique of Western economies and his proposals for human-scale, decentralised and appropriate technologies. According to The Times Literary Supplement in 1995, his 1973 book Small Is Beautiful: a study of economics as if people mattered was among the 100 most influential books published since World War II.

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