Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 / Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen

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I have always expended to the last shilling my surplus wealth in promoting this great and good cause of industrial betterment. The right-reverend prelate is greatly deceived when he says that I have squandered my wealth in profligacy and luxury. I have never expended a pound in either; all my habits are habits of temperance in all things, and I challenge the right-reverend prelate and all his abettors to prove the contrary, and I will give him and them the means of following me through every stage and month of my life.
— Robert Owen, in Speech before the House of Lords

ROBERT OWEN

In Germany, the land of philosophy, when the savants sail into a sea of doubt, some one sets up the cry, Back to Kant!
In America, when professed democracy grows ambitious and evolves a lust for power, men say, Back to Jefferson!
In business, when employer forgets employee and both forget their better manhood, we say, Back to Robert Owen!
We will not go back to Robert Owen: we will go on to Robert Owen, for his philosophy is still in the vanguard.
Robert Owen was a businessman. His first intent was to attain a practical success. He produced the article, and sold it at a profit.
In this operation of taking raw material and manufacturing it into forms of use and beauty—from the time the seed was planted in the ground on up to the consumer who purchased the finished fabric and wove it—Owen believed that all should profit—all should be made happier by every transaction.

Elbert Hubbard
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Год издания

2007-11-22

Темы

Great Britain -- Biography; United States -- Biography; Businessmen -- Biography; France -- Biography

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