I am presenting a selection from the latest work of ing. Vrbik. It will be published in Czech and English as a guide how to live meaningfully and not voluntarily destroy ourselves and leave behind material, moral and spiritual devastation. The photo on the right is from my visit to his apartment in Zlín - THANK YOU Mr. Vrbik! JŠ
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"Let's get rid of our smallness and greatness will find us" - "If you want to build a factory, build yourself first". "I didn't build the race. I built the people and they built the race." That would be quick and easy. It would be enough to distribute so and so much money, and there would be a beginning, like a housewife who puts a mat in the basket to lure the chickens. By donating money we achieve the opposite in man, because man has a longer memory than a hen. He begins to rely on gifts and not on himself. Here it is a question of morality, of education, of building self-confidence, self-discipline." Tomáš Baťa
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Naturally. Crises are the result of a decline in morality. Something the Public Service does not even hint at
I shall be very glad if you will each find something for yourselves that you can use in your field for the benefit of the whole country. In our plant, everyone can easily learn about its administration and management. There are no production secrets with us. We spend a lot of effort and money on new research, but usually before we put a new invention to practical use, we come up with a better one. That's why we don't have a single patent to protect our inventions. We don't even have trade secrets. The calculations, the accounts of losses and profits, which in factories run in the old way used to be locked up by the bosses, in our factory are in the hands of the workers and orderlies. The workers, together with the shop foremen, calculate their share of the profit-sharing, but also the shares that accrue to the factory, and so the workers are informed before the directors what result has been worked with.
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