E. F. Schumacher Quotes

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.
E. F. Schumacher

Courage, Fool, Genius

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

Attitudes, Shapes, Eagles

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
E. F. Schumacher

Greatest, Sometimes, Blessing

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.
E. F. Schumacher

Life, Attitude, Short

Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
E. F. Schumacher

Love, Hate, Others

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.
E. F. Schumacher

Energy, Sense, Few

If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.
E. F. Schumacher

Good, Bad, Economic

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.
E. F. Schumacher

Finance, Growth, Material

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.
E. F. Schumacher

Work, Said, Might

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

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

Technology, Nature, System

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

Else, Purpose, Times

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Economist

Born: August 16, 1911

Died: September 4, 1977

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