Margaret Halsey Quotes About Business

Quotes about: Business

• children are an embarrassment to a business civilization. A business society needs children for the same reason that a nomadic or a pastoral society needs them - to perpetuate itself. Unfortunately, however, children are of no use to a business society until they have almost reached physical maturity.

  Margaret Halsey

  Children, Business, Maturity

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

• The position of children as a group, in a commercial society, is not wholly advantageous. A commercial society urges its citizens to be responsible for things, but not for people. It is the unquestioned assumption of a mercantile culture that things need and deserve attention, but that people can take care of themselves.

  Margaret Halsey

  Children, Business, People

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

• American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human race without first proving that they can sell things to it.

  Margaret Halsey

  Business, Race, People

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

• In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it.

  Margaret Halsey

  Sex, Business, Roles

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

• In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity.

  Margaret Halsey

  Business, Emotional, Scarcity

• The business society is interested in training its citizens to make money, and, in this objective, it is often successful. Many of them do make money, and the ones who do not obligingly regard themselves as failures who have wasted the precious gift of life.

  Margaret Halsey

  Business, Successful, Training

• A business society, therefore, always has in its children a large group of individuals who cannot make money and who do not understand (or want to understand) the profit motive. In short, they are subversives.

  Margaret Halsey

  Children, Business, Groups

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