We keep saying, 'We have no other course.' What we should say is: 'We are not bright enough to see any other course.'

- David Lilienthal

The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward.

- David Lilienthal

The manager-leader of the future should combine in one personality the robust, realistic quality of the man of action with the insight of the artist,…

- David Lilienthal

Whether happiness or unhappiness, freedom or slavery, in short whether good or evil results from an improved environment depends largely upon how the…

- David Lilienthal

Centralization at the national capital or within a business undertaking always glorifies the importance of pieces of paper This dims the sense of rea…

- David Lilienthal

The subject of management is man; the objective of management is the moving of man's mind and will and imagination.

- David Lilienthal

It is chiefly upon the lay citizen, informed about science but not its practitioner, that the country must depend in determining the use to which sci…

- David Lilienthal

Big business is basic to the very life of this country; and yet many -perhaps most - Americans have a deep-seated fear and an emotional repugnance to…

- David Lilienthal

Within the next few years-a decade perhaps-we should be in a position to unlock new knowledge about life and matter so great that wholly new concepts…

- David Lilienthal