E. F. Schumacher Quotes

I've always believed that you should never, ever give up and you should always keep fighting even when there's only a slightest chance.

Never think that success is down to your own performance alone. If you start listening only to yourself you take the first step back towards the bottom. The flowers of victory belong in many vases.

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

Once something is a passion, the motivation is there.

Just being a mediocre driver has never been my ambition. That's not my style.

If the sun were made of hamsters, the earth would be incinerated.

I cant really imagine life without Formula One.

I'm Michael Schumacher. I don't need to test my driving ability.

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

Sometimes minor details can have a huge impact. If you don't devote 100 percent of your efforts to every detail, you immediately run into difficulties.

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

Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist.

You try to hide your emotions, so as not to show weaknesses to others. I believe it's the same for every sportsman.

Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.

Losing composure is pointless.

I always thought records were there to be broken.

Development does not start with goods; it starts with people and their education, organization, and discipline. Without these three, all resources remain latent, untapped, potential.

Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.

When you are part of a community for 14 years, it inevitably shapes you. I will always have a part of Ferrari beside me; a part of my heart will always be red.

An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods. . . .

When you're very successful, you become careless and try to turn many things into routine.

Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity.

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

There is incredible generosity in the potentialities of Nature. We only have to discover how to utilize them.

The real problems of our planet are not economic or technical, they are philosophical. The philosophy of unbridled materialism is being challenged by events.

Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side

Is there enough to go around? What is enough? Who can tell us? Certainly not the economist who pursues economic growth as the highest of all values, and therefore has no concept of enough.

When you start out in a team, you have to get the teamwork going and then you get something back.

I cannot predict the wind but I can have my sail ready.

Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.

The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.

If you do things to the limit, and don’t purposely go over that limit, then I think it’s fine to do whatever you want. So long as you enjoy it. That’s what’s important.

Every year we find something new, we go faster, and that's what Formula One is about .

In sport there is never any moment that is the same as the other. I have been in Formula One for 12 years, and out of that I had one year with the perfect car.

Many people love in themselves what they hate in others

It is doubly chimerical to build peace on economic foundations which, in turn, rest on the systematic cultivation of greed and envy, the very forces which drive men into conflict.

Man's needs are infinite, and infinitude can be achieved only in the spiritual realm, never in the material.

I have really enjoyed my time at Ferrari, not just because of the successes.

I like working in a team, and at Ferrari there is always good cooperation.

We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature.

Real life consists of the tensions produced by the incompatibility of opposites, each of which is needed

The more precisely I can drive, the more I enjoy myself.

There can be nothing sacred in something that has a price.

There are poor societies which have too little; but where is the rich society that says: 'Halt! We have enough'? There is none.

Ferrari always tries to get the best possible drivers, and my fellow team members have always been highly promising people.

If I didn't even stand a chance of winning races and competing for the title, I don't think I would be that interested in continuing my career.

Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.

I have to say it's been tough to leave the Ferrari family, which has been a big part of my career.

I didn't have statistics in my mind when I was racing. It was always a consequence - a nice consequence. I enjoyed it, but it wasn't the reason I was racing.

Everyone is replaceable, including me.