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E. F. Schumacher

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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.


— E. F. Schumacher


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


— E. F. Schumacher


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Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.


— E. F. Schumacher


#love #many #others #people #themselves

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


— E. F. Schumacher


#curse #either #forgets #greatest #greatest blessing

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


— E. F. Schumacher


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


— E. F. Schumacher


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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.


— E. F. Schumacher


#employees #employer #ideal #income #might

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


— E. F. Schumacher


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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.


— E. F. Schumacher


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About E. F. Schumacher

E. F. Schumacher Quotes




Did you know about E. F. Schumacher?

Philosophically he absorbed much of Thomism which provided an objective system in contrast to what he saw as the self-centered subjectivism and relativism of modern philosophy and society. His father was a professor of political economy. and was soon translated into many languages bringing him international fame.

Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher (16 August 1911 – 4 September 1977) was an internationally influential economic thinker statistician and economist in Britain serving as Chief Economic Advisor to the UK National Coal Board for two decades. According to The Times Literary Supplement his 1973 book Small Is Beautiful: a study of economics as if people mattered is among the 100 most influential books publiE. F. Schumacherd since World War II. He is best known for his critique of Western economies and his proposals for human-scale decentralized and appropriate technologies.

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