“At any rate that is precisely what happens: the “means” oriented stories come from countries which have managed to overcome the obstacles to economic achievement more successfully than other countries… These results serve to direct our attention as social scientists away from an exclusive concern with the external events in history to the “internal” psychological concerns that in the long run determine what happens in history”

— David C. McClelland

Source: The Archiving Society, 1961, p. 104-5

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American psychological theorist 1917–1998

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