Quotes by Charles E. Wilson

About Charles E. Wilson:

Charles Edward Wilson was a CEO of General Electric.
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In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a people ever achieved anywhere in the world. This is why I am so sure that our system of free competition and industrial development is so...

Charles E. Wilson

That co-operation and peace rather than industrial strife and strikes will best promote the prosperity of the employees the company and all of the people and even strengthen the nation.

Charles E. Wilson

The thing that contributes to anyone's reaching the goal he wants is simple wanting that goal badly enough.

Charles E. Wilson

Furthermore, the spirit of enterprise which had its first intellectual development in England has especially flourished here as well as throughout all of Canada, while the same spirit has become less virile in the land of its origin.

Charles E. Wilson

Our expanding Canadian operations are concrete evidence of General Motors confidence in Canada.

Charles E. Wilson

There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our ...

Charles E. Wilson

If workmen are denied any increase in real wages and they can look forward only to a better standard of living through reduction of prices, progress for them is terribly slow, and they become impatient and dissatisfied.

Charles E. Wilson

Many people do not realize that where unions have bargaining rights employers cannot raise wages or improve benefit plans any more than they can reduce them without of the consent of the union.

Charles E. Wilson

Unfortunately, in collective bargaining one party or the other too often tries to gain an advantage - a bargain, like buying something in a store for less than it is worth.

Charles E. Wilson

No one should be so naive as to think that wages among organized groups will not be increased, under pressure if necessary, to make up for increases in the cost-of-living, nor should anyone ordinarily object to such adjustments.

Charles E. Wilson

Costs of manufactured articles importantly depend on the cost of raw materials as well as labour.

Charles E. Wilson

The prices of raw materials do not fluctuate directly with the labour cost of producing them.

Charles E. Wilson

That it is logical, fair and reasonable to maintain the purchasing power of an hour's work in terms of goods and services the employee must purchase in his daily living.

Charles E. Wilson

Our recent 5-year labour agreements, in Canada as well as the United States, are based upon experience, logic and principle rather than on pressure, propaganda and force.

Charles E. Wilson

A study of the history of wages back through the years indicates clearly that when the cost-of-living rises appreciably wages have shortly been adjusted upward also.

Charles E. Wilson

Canada has great natural resources, and its people have the spirit and ability to develop them.

Charles E. Wilson

No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.

Charles E. Wilson

No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming.

Charles E. Wilson

There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Charles E. Wilson

Our thinking behind these agreements is that we want all jobs in General Motors to be good jobs.

Charles E. Wilson

Author Bio

  • NameCharles E. Wilson
  • DescriptionAmerican CEO of General Electric
  • BornNovember 18, 1886
  • DiedJanuary 3, 1972
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician