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Charles Erwin Wilson, né le 18 juillet 1890 à Minerva et mort le 26 septembre 1961 à Norwood , est un homme politique américain. Membre du Parti républicain, il est secrétaire à la Defense entre 1953 et 1957 dans l'administration du président Dwight D. Eisenhower. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. juillet 1890 – 26. septembre 1961
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“No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.”

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Charles E. Wilson, quoted in: Louis E. Boone, ‎David L. Kurtz (1987), Management, p. 100

“For years I thought that what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa. The difference did not exist. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country. Our contribution to the nation is considerable.”

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Charles E. Wilson (1952) in: Confirmation hearings before the Senate Armed Services Committee, responding to Sen. Robert Hendrickson's question regarding conflicts of interest. Quoted in Safire's Political Dictionary (1978) by William Safire.

“The way to advance the nation's prosperity and achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization, and substituting machines and power for human backs.”

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Charles E. Wilson in, Michigan Business Review, (1949), Vol. 1-2, p. 3

“Costs of manufactured articles importantly depend on the cost of raw materials as well as labor, and the prices of many raw materials do not fluctuate directly with the labor cost of producing them.”

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Charles E. Wilson cited in: Ernest Dale (1950), Sources of economic information for collective bargaining. p. 36

“Nor do I understand how anyone can feel that industrial progress has been made at the expense of social progress nor why any American should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or statism, which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions, can produce a happier and more prosperous society.”

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Charles E. Wilson in, The Commonwealth: A Forum for Creation of Public Opinion, p. 1946

“For years I thought that what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa.”

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The difference did not exist. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country. Our contribution to the nation is considerable.
Charles E. Wilson (1952) in: Confirmation hearings before the Senate Armed Services Committee, responding to Sen. Robert Hendrickson's question regarding conflicts of interest. Quoted in Safire's Political Dictionary (1978) by William Safire.