“If war production should remain the only way out of a long-term depression, industrial society would be reduced to the choice between suicide through total war or suicide through total depression.” Peter Drucker
“For if this country—or any other of the great powers—were to make its defense program a function of its domestic employment situation, it would become impossible to conduct a constructive and well-thought out foreign policy or to develop any lasting collaboration.” Peter Drucker
“[C]ollaboration between... divergent systems is possible... only as long as both are stable. ...International security is ...based upon the internal political and social security of each of the Great Powers.” Peter Drucker
“It is not enough for the economist in a free society to be a good economic craftsman; he must also think and act as a citizen.” Peter Drucker
“[I]n a free society each individual has a responsibility towards the beliefs of his society—a responsibility on which all the rights and duties of citizenship are founded.” Peter Drucker
“[W]e have been forced to put a major emphasis on the acquisition of technical knowledge.” Peter Drucker
“The large industrial enterprise is... the representative institution of an industrial society. It determines the individual's view of his society.” Peter Drucker
“The major incentive to productivity and efficiency are social and moral rather than financial.” Peter Drucker
“Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.” Peter Drucker
“A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths.” Peter Drucker
“The better a man is, the more mistakes will he make - for the more new things he will try. I would never promote a man into a top level job who had not made mistakes, and big ones at that. Otherwise he is sure to be mediocre.” Peter Drucker
“It does not matter whether the worker wants responsibility or not, ...The enterprise must demand it of him.” Peter Drucker
“The fundamental reality for every worker, from sweeper to executive vice-president, is the eight hours or so that he spends on the job. In our society of organizations, it is the job through which the great majority has access to achievement, to fulfillment, and to community.” Peter Drucker
“- A manager sets objectives - A manager organizes - A manager motivates and communicates - A manager, by establishing yardsticks, measures - A manager develops people.” Peter Drucker
“Capitalism is being attacked not because it is inefficient or misgoverned but because it is cynical. And indeed a society based on the assertion that private vices become public benefits cannot endure, no matter how impeccable its logic, no matter how great its benefits.” Peter Drucker
“The moment people talk of "implementing" instead of "doing," and of "finalizing" instead of "finishing," the organization is already running a fever.” Peter Drucker
“[T]hroughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive.... our word "school" - and its equivalent in all European languages - derives from a Greek word meaning "leisure.” Peter Drucker
“Tomorrow everybody - or practically everybody - will have had the education of the upper class of yesterday, and will expect equivalent opportunities. That is why we face the problem of making every kind of job meaningful and capable of satisfying every educated man.” Peter Drucker
“In book subjects a student can only do a student's work. All that can be measured is how well he learns, rather than how well he performs. All he can show is promise.” Peter Drucker
“International financiers are behind all war. They are what is called the international Jew: German-Jews, French-Jews, English-Jews, American-Jews ... the Jew is the threat.” Henry Ford
“The only statement I care to make about the Protocols is that they fit in with what is going on. They are sixteen years old, and they have fitted the world situation up to his time. They fit it now.” Henry Ford
“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.” Henry Ford
“As long as we look to legislation to cure poverty or to abolish special privilege we are going to see poverty spread and special privilege grow.” Henry Ford
“Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again. There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail.” Henry Ford
“The people are on the side of sound money. They are so unalterably on the side of sound money that it is a serious question how they would regard the system under which they live, if they once knew what the initiated can do with it.” Henry Ford
“The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed.” Henry Ford
“If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.” Henry Ford
“The average man won't really do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it.” Henry Ford
“Let them fail; let everybody fail! I made my fortune when I had nothing to start with, by myself and my own ideas. Let other people do the same thing. If I lose everything in the collapse of our financial structure, I will start in at the beginning and build it up again.” Henry Ford
“A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.” Henry Ford
“It is perhaps well enough that the people of the Nation do not know or understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” Henry Ford
“Variant: If the American people knew the corruption in our money system there would be revolution before morning.” Henry Ford
“Any man who thinks he is going to be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him should take a close look at the American Indian.” Henry Ford
“Industrialist Henry Ford hated jazz. He thought it was a Jewish conspiracy to use black music to get good white people into booze, cigarettes and sex.” Henry Ford
“If there is any certainty as to what a businessman is, he is assuredly the things Ford was not.” Henry Ford
“Every year Jews make more and more the controlling masters of the producers in a nation of one hundred and twenty millions; only a single great man, Ford, to their fury still maintains full independence.” Henry Ford
“It will take a hundred years to tell whether he helped us or hurt us, but he certainly didn't leave us where he found us.” Henry Ford
“To Monsieur Eiffel the Engineer, the brave builder of so gigantic and original a specimen of modern Engineering from one who has the greatest respect and admiration for all Engineers including the Great Engineer the Bon Dieu.” Thomas Edison
“I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have, fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes.” Thomas Edison