
Source: "Notes on the Theory of Organization," 1937, p. 43
Book V, Chapter 1 http://www.readprint.com/chapter-7136/Niccolo-Machiavelli
Florentine Histories (1526)
Source: "Notes on the Theory of Organization," 1937, p. 43
Henri Fayol (1916) cited in: Ralph Currier Davis (1951) The fundamentals of top management. p. 157. This quote was already cited in multiple sources in 1938.
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book II, Chapter VI, Sec. 4
“States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad.”
§ 5
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
“The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.”
Source: The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), Ch. 28.
Darwin Among the Machines
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part III - The Germs of Erewhon and of Life and Habit