“In the infinitely complex economic system on which we rely for our daily bread, no productive function is more important than that of our business leaders. These men are charged with the responsibility of giving direction and unity to the efforts of the many who participate in economic activity. It is their job to make the plans and decisions which will transform economic effort into the particular goods and services wanted by a myriad of consumers. Conversely, it is their job also to translate consumers' needs into employment opportunities for labor and other economic resources”
Source: Business Leadership in the Large Corporation (1945), p. 3
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Source: 1940s, Economic Analysis, 1941, p. 613 (rev. ed. 1948) as cited in: Andrew McMeekin (2002) Innovation by Demand. p. 131

2000s, 2002, State of the Union address (January 2002)

2009, Speech: The Socio-Economic Peace Program of Senator Francis Escudero

Source: Talks on Pedagogics, (1894), p. 25; as quoted in Sanderson Beck. Francis W. Parker's Concentration Pedagogy: Education to Free the Human Spirit http://www.san.beck.org/Parker.html, 1996
Cited in: D.H. Stamatis (1999) TQM Engineering Handbook, p. 12
Total Quality Control, 1983

Source: Straight From The Heart (1985), Chapter Three, The Business Of politics, p. 76

“The economic function of space industrialization is to generate jobs on Earth, not in space.”
The Extraterrestrial Imperative (1978)