Quotes from David Lilienthal

The subject of management is man; the objective of management is the moving of man's mind and will and imagination.

Big business is basic to the very life of this country; and yet many -perhaps most - Americans have a deep-seated fear and an emotional repugnance to it. Here is monumental contradiction.

Out of the best and most productive years of each man's life, he should carve a segment in which he puts his private career aside to serve his community and his country, and thereby serve his children, his neighbours, his fellow men, and the cause of freedom.

The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward.

Centralization at the national capital or within a business undertaking always glorifies the importance of pieces of paper This dims the sense of reality.