Mary Parker Follett

"We can never wholly separate the human from the mechanical side... But you all see every day that the study of human relations in business and the study of operating are bound up together."

"It is a mistake to think that social progress is to depend upon anything happening to the working people: some say that they are to be given more material goods and all will be well; some think they a…"

"The third reason why I am working at business management is because I believe in control, and so do our most progressive business men. I believe in the individual not trusting to fate or chance or inh…"

"The study of human relations in business and the study of the technology of operating are bound up together."

"Since I have been in England I have been asked several times why I am studying business management. I will try to tell you. Free to choose between different paths of study, I have chosen this for a nu…"

"Democracy has meant to many "natural" rights, "liberty" and "equality." The acceptance of the group principle defines for us in truer fashion those watchwords of the past. If my true self is the group…"

"Man can have no rights apart from society or independent of society or against society."

"As the psychic coherence of the group can be obtained only by the full contribution of every member, so we see that a readiness to compromise must be no part of the individual's attitude. Just so far …"