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Free labour has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.

The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.

My experience is that there is something in human nature which always makes an individual recognize and reward merit, no matter under what colour of skin merit is found.

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

At that institution I got my first taste of what it meant to live a life of unselfishness, my first knowledge of the fact that the happiest individuals are those who do the most to make others useful and happy.

The whole of arithmetic now appeared within the grasp of mechanism. A vague glimpse even of an Analytical Engine at length opened out, and I pursued with enthusiasm the shadowy vision.

The brain of man is the social organ, the organ of communication. Through it flows the current of thought, whereby we are enabled to work together.

To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature: to make beautiful things has more.

What we do modifies us more than what is done to us.

The basic condition of human life is union; the organic social relation, the interchange of functional service, wherein the individual is most advantaged, not by his own exertions for his own goods, but by the exchange of his exertions with the exertions of others for goods produced by them together.

The progress of society rests upon the increasing collectivity of human labor.

You hang around a barbershop long enough—sooner or later you will get a haircut.

There is no menial work in the daily living rightly carried out; that which the last century wrongly permitted is made needless by the machinery of to-day.

Real wealth consists in things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in.

When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful.

The vision and action must go hand in hand.

In place of the suspicious watchfulness and the more or less open warfare which characterizes the ordinary types of management, there is universally friendly cooperation between the management and the men.

This close, intimate, personal cooperation between the management and the men is of the essence of modern scientific or task management.

The principal object of management should be to secure the maximum prosperity for the employer, coupled with the maximum prosperity for each employee.

Genius is free to announce its inventions and discoveries, and the hand is free to accomplish whatever the head conceives not incompatible with the rights of a fellow-being.

Our young people feel nervously the need of putting theory into action, and respond quickly to the Settlement form of activity.

Keenly conscious of the social confusion all about us and the hard economic struggle, we at times believed that the very struggle itself might become a source of strength.

In spite of failures, cooperative schemes went on, some of the same men appearing in one after another with irrepressible optimism.

Work is love made visible.

It is not always recognized that the work itself is a great educator, and that acute cleverness in the line of work to which he is fitted comes to the worker.