Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market. -E. F. Schumacher

 

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.


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This quote is just one of 10 total E. F. Schumacher quotes in our collection. E. F. Schumacher is known for saying 'Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.' as well as some of the following quotes.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.

E. F. Schumacher

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

E. F. Schumacher

It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.

E. F. Schumacher

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth / in short, materialism / does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.

E. F. Schumacher

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

E. F. Schumacher