“In what can it be so useful, as in prompting and improving the efforts of industry?”

— Alexander Hamilton , Report on Manufactures

Report on Manufactures (1791)
Context: In countries where there is great private wealth, much may be effected by the voluntary contributions of patriotic individuals; but in a community situated like that of the United States, the public purse must supply the deficiency of private resource. In what can it be so useful, as in prompting and improving the efforts of industry?

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Founding Father of the United States 1757–1804

Kirby Page (1890–1957) American clergyman

Property (1935)
Context: The actual participants in industry under individualism are prompted to action by the following combination of incentives: desire for an income, desire for a higher income, desire for security, satisfaction received from shouldering responsibility or from wielding power, the joy of participation in creative activity, and the desire for applause and prestige.... And all these motivations may be conserved and strengthened under socialism.

“In modern industry there is very little that the individual can do by his unaided efforts.”

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse (1864–1929) British sociologist

Source: Liberalism (1911), Chapter VIII, Economic Liberalism, p. 99.

“Quality improves with effort according to an exponential curve.”

Robert W. Bly (1957) American writer

101 Ways to Make Every Second Count: Time Management Tips and Techniques for More Success With Less Stress (1999)

“It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?”

Henry David Thoreau Letters to Various Persons

Letter to Harrison Blake (16 November 1857)
Source: Letters to Various Persons

“Civilization has so cluttered this elemental man-earth relationship with gadgets and middlemen that awareness of it is growing dim. We fancy that industry supports us, forgetting what supports industry.”

Aldo Leopold book A Sand County Almanac

Source: A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

“Everything in future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now.”

Yukteswar Giri (1855–1936) Indian yogi and guru

Autobiography of a Yogi (1946)

“Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“The promotion of dairy products in schools is especially troubling, where children are a captive audience and greatly influenced by the foods served there. That’s why the dairy industry wants to maintain its strong presence in schools, despite local and federal efforts to improve the nutritional quality of school food.”

Michele Simon (1965) public health lawyer

Whitewashed (2014)

“The effort to improve the conditions of man, however, is not a task for the few. It is the task of all nations”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

acting alone, acting in groups, acting in the United Nations, for plague and pestilence, and plunder and pollution, the hazards of nature, and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation. The earth, the sea, and the air are the concern of every nation. And science, technology, and education can be the ally of every nation. Never before has man had such capacity to control his own environment, to end thirst and hunger, to conquer poverty and disease, to banish illiteracy and massive human misery. We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world — or to make it the last.
1963, UN speech

“Governments should be role models of leadership and improve the utilization of ICT in all the governmental departments in order to improve the efficiency of governmental services and motivate ICT industries.”

Talal Abu-Ghazaleh (1938) Jordanian businesspeople

May 15, 2000, ESCWA Team of Experts Meeting, Amman, Jordan.

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