Quote#Politics & Power
It is psychology, not soil or climate, that enables a man to raise…
Quote byHarrington Emerson · 1853–1931
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The twelve principles of efficiency (1912), p. 107 ; cited in: Hugo Münsterberg. Psychology and Industrial Efficiency, 1913, p. 52.
English (original)
It is psychology, not soil or climate, that enables a man to raise five times as many potatoes per acre as the average in his own state.
— Harrington Emerson
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