Abstract

WE ALL KNOW THAT TIME has something to do with value and that most of what we value is either present or past or something yet to come. In hundreds of well-known slogans, there is a good deal of wisdom about time and value: "the sooner, the better," for example, and "better late than never." It is also true, however, that "every thing has its due time" and that "time will always tell." We think, almost paradoxically, that even though each of us is finally a person of his own time, we can also be out of joint with time; we can be ahead of our time or behind it, and people in our business wonder, of course, whether our ideas are the ideas whose time has come.