83 Quotes by E.F. Schumacher

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

Not mass production but production by the masses.

The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two million villages, and thus a problem of two thousand million villagers.

Nobody really likes large-scale organizations; nobody likes to take orders from a superior who takes orders from a superior who takes orders...

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.

The fundamental task is to achieve smallness within large organisation.

The purpose of work is to give people a chance to utilize and develop their faculties; to enable them to overcome their ego-centeredness by joining others in a common task; and to bring for the goods and services needed for a becoming existence.

I certainly never feel discouraged. I can’t myself raise the winds that might blow us or this ship into a better world. But I can at least put up the sail so that when the winds comes, I can catch it.

Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.