Archive for Benjamin F. Fairless
Serving Others
Mr. Fairless is Chairman of the Executive Advisory Committee, United States Steel Corporation. Ours would indeed be a sorry world if self-interest did not activate individuals to serve one another. As far as I know, there are only two basic motivations that cause you and me and other people to serve our neighbors voluntarily and [...]
1Jul1956 | Benjamin F. Fairless | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Perfect Price
Mr. Fairless is Chairman of the Executive Advisory Committee, United States Steel Corporation. What determines the price of a ton of steel? Who sets it? Just what is the policy of United States Steel as to prices? Along with other successful American industries, we in the steel business learned a long time ago that the [...]
1Jan1956 | Benjamin F. Fairless | 0 comments | ContinuedDedication To Success
Mr. Fairless recently retired as Chairman of the Board, United States Steel Company. This is extracted from an address, October 18, 1951. Ever since the day it was started, the National Radiator Company has always competed against companies much larger than itself; and now that it has branched out into new fields, it has challenged [...]
1Sep1955 | Benjamin F. Fairless | 0 comments | ContinuedMore Machines Mean More Jobs
Nearly three centuries ago, an inventor in Danzig built a loom that could weave six webs at once, and the authorities promptly suppressed it in order to protect the poor. But the “poor” were not appeased. They wanted no more such machines. So they seized the hapless inventor and drowned him in a nearby creek. [...]
1May1955 | Benjamin F. Fairless | 0 comments | Continued-
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