The idea that we need to “pay our dues” is a lie told to us by people who wanted our efforts and… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
Wealth gained by dishonesty will be diminished, but he who gathers by labor will increase. — Dave Ramsey Copy Share Image
Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The lottery of honest labor, drawn by time, is the only one whose prizes are worth taking up and carrying home. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Until we can democratically control the wealth that is created from our labor, there isn't real democracy. — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
The historic dearth of labor was perhaps the central feature of the American economy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
An ordinary man will work every day for a year at shoveling dirt to support his body, or a family of bodies;… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The current information revolution is a cultural revolution, a social revolution, a thoroughgoing technological revolution that involves not just information, but labor,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
There is no debate that the H-2A program needs significant reform. Increasing access, so that farmers and workers are able to meet… — Madison Cawthorn Copy Share Image
I really like stuff that is collectible that you can hold and go, 'There's only a few people that have this.' I… — Adam Jones Copy Share Image
The collapse of communism in essence added tens and tens of millions of people to the world labor supply, and the people… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
No tin-hat brigade of goose-stepping vigilantes or bibble-babbling mob of blackguarding and corporation paid scoundrels will prevent the onward march of labor,… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
Last year, I twice voted against the Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations bill because it did not adequately fund education in general,… — Rick Renzi Copy Share Image
For a long time, early industrializing countries were absorptive. They were endlessly able to absorb new labor inputs to keep expanding. This… — Joshua Clover Copy Share Image
To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When Jesus invites sinners, 'Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest,' he immediately… — Wayne Grudem Copy Share Image
There are of course economic advantages to having Turkey as a member of the European club. It's a developing country with a… — Andrew Mango Copy Share Image
From numberless books the fluttering reader, idle and inconstant, bears away the bloom that only clings to the outer leaf; but genius… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Well, I think we are seeing some shifts in manufacturing. China, when you go in and you talk to the big manufacturers… — Rodney Brooks Copy Share Image
“The economic system barely functions as it is—I mean, the contemporary economic system is a complete catastrophe, an absolutely catastrophic failure. For… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when Joy is the fundamental thing in him, and Grief the superficial. Melancholy should… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I can't do what my mother did, which is tell me every single day of my life about her labor and how… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Though President Grover Cleveland declared Labor Day a national holiday in 1894, the occasion was first observed on Sept. 5, 1882, in New York City. — Brendan I. Koerner Copy Share Image
I think we labor economists like to think of ourselves as being closer to the people. — David Autor Copy Share Image
Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I am interested in garnering the white vote, and the black vote, and the Latin vote, and the Asian vote, and the… — Harold Washington Copy Share Image
The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Abstention from labor is the conventional evidence of wealth and is therefore the conventional mark of social standing. — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
If I choose to devote myself to certain labors which yield more real profit, though but little money, they may be inclined… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you would look up bad labor relations in the dictionary, you would have an American Airlines logo beside it. — Elton Joe Kendall Copy Share Image
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor. — Menander Copy Share Image
Ye rigid Ploughman! bear in mind Your labor is for future hours. Advance! spare not! nor look behind! Plough deep and straight… — Richard Henry Horne Copy Share Image
The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor. — John Thorn Copy Share Image
If you want to know the feeling [of labor pain], just take your bottom lip and pull it over your head. — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
But for labor groups, there is no debate: Nafta hurt American jobs and household earnings. — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image