Activity Quote by Francis Fukuyama

Co-operative enterprises provide the organisational means whereby a significant proportion of humanity is able to take into its own hands the tasks of creating…

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Social organizations are flagrantly open systems in that the input of energies and the conversion of output into further energetic input consists of transactions…

— Daniel Katz

Founded on the principles of private initiative, entrepreneurship and self-employment, underpinned by the values of democracy, equality and solidarity, the co-operative movement can help…

— Kofi Annan

“[B]ecause the minimum costs of being an organization in the first place are relatively high, certain activities may have some value but not enough…

— Clay Shirky

“Fundamentally, there are only two ways of co-ordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion—the technique of…

— Milton Friedman

Each individual member of a co-operative society works with that interest which is inseparable from the new position he enjoys. Each has an interest…

— Leland Stanford

If you have worker-owned and worker-managed enterprises, you've got a different sociopolitical system.

— Noam Chomsky

In a community all acts of individuals and of organizations are directly or indirectly interconnected and interdependent

— Chester Barnard

The productivity of social cooperation surpasses in every respect the sum total of the production of isolated individuals.

— Ludwig von Mises

The future of business is social.

— Barry Libert

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind…

— Milton Friedman

Organizations are, in the last analysis, interactions among people.

— Richard Pascale