Arthur Erickson Quotes

A whole set of values comes with fast food: Everything should be fast, cheap and easy; there's always more where that came from; there are no seasons; you shouldn't be paid very much for preparing food. It's uniformity and a lack of connection.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

Most companies are busy making their products worse, not better. Updating is almost always a disaster.

The fashion system has killed fashion.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

Turn up your radio. Watch lots of telly and eat loads of choc. Feel guilty. Stay up all night. Learn everything in six hours that has taken you two years to compile. That's how I did it.

As president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, I have seen private equity firms plunder company after company, taking rich fees for themselves and cutting costs until there's nothing left to cut. Time and again I've seen their reckless behavior drive companies to declare bankruptcy.

I certainly don't follow fashion. I think fashion, as far as the industry and the whole world that surrounds it, is quite vile, and I'm repelled by it.

I shoot an arrow into the air, where it lands I do not care: I get my arrows wholesale!

An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.

Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.

If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it.

Corporate trading is vicious in principle. The directors of such companies, being the managers rather of other people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expected that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own … Negligence and profusion must always prevail, more or less, in the management of the affairs of such a company

People will always want a free lunch.

When I came to the U.S., I tried to take shortcuts to make money - but everything crashed.

People take shortcuts to meet ends in MNCs.

If you get into the habit of cutting corners, they start to add up.

Letting men die is a money-saving device. Safety costs money as one safety official put it, 'When everything is hurry, hurry, hurry, when you start pressuring people and taking shortcuts, things can go wrong. And then people die.' No. And then men die.

The very energy sources that have gotten us to where we are now are also, if we continue doing what we're doing, a shortcut to the end of all that we hold near and dear.

We batter this planet as if we had someplace else to go.

The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.

When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker.

The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see; they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public wanted was the future.

It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.

We live in an age of seriously crap mass clothing. They've made a science of it.