Small Business and Society: Hearings Before the Select Committee on Small Business, United States Senate, Ninety-fourth Congress, First Session ... December 2, 3, and 4, 1975 |
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Page 179 - IT° was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way...
Page 47 - No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community.
Page 105 - The second step is to disregard that which can't be measured or give it an arbitrary quantitative value. This is artificial and misleading. The third step is to presume that what can't be measured easily really isn't very important. This is blindness. The fourth step is to say that what can't be easily measured really doesn't exist. This is suicide.
Page 102 - Association to the Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly of the Senate Judiciary Committee, concerning S.
Page 290 - Two or three years ago we proposed a reduction in the life of flashlight lamps from the old basis on which one lamp was supposed to outlast three batteries, to a point where the life of the lamp and the life of the battery under service conditions would be approximately equal.
Page 237 - O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.
Page 192 - ... know but the horrors of idleness. Business is the very soul of an American : he pursues it, not as a means of procuring for himself and his family the necessary comforts of life, but as the fountain of all human felicity...
Page 111 - Many people believe that possession of unchallenged economic power deadens initiative, discourages thrift and depresses energy; that immunity from competition is a narcotic, and rivalry is a stimulant, to industrial progress; that the spur of constant stress is necessary to counteract an inevitable disposition to let well enough alone.
Page 192 - There is, probably, no people on earth with whom business constitutes pleasure, and industry amusement, in an equal degree with the inhabitants of the United States of America. Active occupation is not only the principal source of their happiness, and the foundation of their national greatness, but they are absolutely wretched without it, and instead of the "dolcefarniente," know but the horrors of idleness.
Page 120 - General Motors had been involved in the replacement of more than 100 electric transit systems with GM buses in 45 cities including New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, St. Louis, Oakland, Salt Lake City, and Los Angeles.