This has been the cause of a great deal of wasted time and effort, and industry, which needs young men who are healthy, tractable, unpretentious and, I would even say, full of illusions, often receives engineers who are tired out, weak in body, and less ready than one could wish to take modest jobs and work so hard that everything seems easy to them.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "This has been the cause of a great deal of wasted time and effort, and industry, which needs young men who are healthy, tractable, unpretentious and, I would even say, full of illusions, often receives engineers who are tired out, weak in body, and less ready than one could wish to take modest jobs and work so hard that everything seems easy to them." in the context of "Henri Fayol (1900), in his address to his colleagues in the mineral industry on 23 June 1900, in: Daniel A. Ren, et al. The foundations of Henri Fayol’s administrative theory, Louisiana State University, p. 909." to mean that wisdom is timeless.