E. F. Schumacher Quotes

The world has come around to the view that democracy is essential for full human development. And only education and skill development can make this possible.

Learning is not just a labour market or economic growth issue. It is an integral part of human development. We learn from birth to death.

People are the common denominator of progress; no improvement is possible with unimproved people.

The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings

To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.

To teach is to show what is possible; to learn is to make yourself possible.

Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.

A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.

Unless you invest in people, you are not going to see growth in the long term, the medium term, and maybe even the short term.

To have much learning, to be skillful in handicraft, well-trained in discipline, and to be of good speech -- this is the greatest blessing.

Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the human undertakes, and he must do it as a child.

The organizations that will truly excel in the future will be the organizations that discover how to tap people's commitment and capacity to learn at all levels in an organization.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people.

Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.

Specialization and organization are the basis of human progress.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poorer longer...often forever; give them knowledge instead.

I really do believe that education, despite this massive potential in transforming human lives, has not received the kind of attention that people should have given to it.

I believe that solution to all problems is in development. Development is also the solution to the tension that people talk about.

The greatest waste … is failure to use the abilities of people…to learn about their frustrations and about the contributions that they are eager to make.

My life purpose is to inspire and empower people and organizations to live their highest vision in a context of love and joy and in harmony with the highest good of all concerned.

People aren't things to be molded; they are lives to be unfolded. And that's what true leaders do. They unfold the lives of others and help them reach their God-given potential.

When we talk about Skill India Mission, we do not merely talk about filling the pockets of people. We want to instil a sense of self-confidence among the poor.

We'll build new ties of trade and of commerce, culture and education that unleash the potential of the Iraqi people.

A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon one's resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination; how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.

People create their own success by learning what they need to learn and then by practicing it until they become proficient at it.