Because of his compassion Owen was always in trouble with his partners. They would have much preferred a tough, down-to-earth manager who would get a… - John Kenneth Galbraith

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

Both of these measures were on the side of increasing spendable income, though unfortunately they were largely without effect. The tax reductions were negligible except in the higher income brackets; businessmen who promised to maintain investment and wages, in accordance with a well-understood convention, considered the promise binding only for the period within which it was not financially disadvantageous to do so.

"Poverty" Pitt exclaimed "is no disgrace but it is damned annoying." In the contemporary United States it is not annoying but it is a disgrace.