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A political sage still living has summed up the conclusion of this whole matter in the dictum: "A cheap coat makes a cheap man," and there is probably no one who does not feel the convincing force of the maxim.
Theory of the Leisure Class
Thorstein Veblen
Big business has flourished in the machine age because machines enabled economies of scale and scope. As technology got better, by and large firms got bigger.
Big Is Beautiful
Robert D. Atkinson, Michael Lind
The reluctant leader knows that perhaps one war out of one hundred is fought for a just cause, so he is not caught up in the hoopla of bigger and better. He refuses to serve the larger good by telling lies to get people involved. When new buildings need to be built or new programs grown, the reluctant leader works hard to minimize the cost to the constituents and looks for every possible way of utilizing space or revising existing programs.
Leading With a Limp
Dan B. Allender
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