Labor Quotes · Page 42

Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor.

— Adam Smith

The pace of increases in labor compensation provides another possible indicator, albeit an imperfect one, of the degree of labor market slack.

— Janet Yellen

I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.

— Charles Kuralt

“Children take joy in their work and sometimes as adults we forget that's something we should continue doing.”

— Ashley Ormon

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it…

— Allan Bloom

Appetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question.

— Ambrose Bierce

It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The NRA was one of the items that we pointed to when we added money to the labor, health and Education appropriations…

— Dave Obey

The decree of a coercive tribunal would not need to conform to the true standard of wages, the final productivity of social…

— John Bates Clark

I'm proud to be Secretary of Labor. But I'm even prouder of two more important titles: dad and husband. I've been able…

— Thomas Perez

Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached…

— Robert Hayden

Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior…

— Abraham Lincoln

One of the most powerful insights in economics is this idea of a division of labor. You do the thing you're good…

— Paul Romer

Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is considered disgraceful…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to…

— Samuel Johnson

As in labor, the more one doth exercise, the more one is enabled to do, strength growing upon work; so with the…

— Philip Sidney

A basic assumption shapes most Americans’ mindset about labor: the belief that the death of unions isn’t my problem because I’m not…

— Eric Liu

Definitely we see throughout history that American teachers are asked to be very self-abnegating. They're not supposed to be concerned with the…

— Dana Goldstein

A few ideas seem to be agreed upon. Help none but those who help themselves. Educate only at schools which provide in…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Extended families have never been the norm in America; the highest figure for extended-family households ever recorded in Americanhistory is 20 percent.…

— Stephanie Coontz

The history of work has been, in part, the history of the worker's body. Production depended on what the body could accomplish…

— Shoshana Zuboff

Bring on those tired, labor-plagued, competition-weary companies and ESOP will breathe new life into them. They will find ESOP better than Geritol.…

— Russell B. Long

The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it…

— Anonymous

I am convinced that there is no simple formula or technique that I could give you or that you could give your…

— Richard G. Scott

Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.

— Samuel Smiles

With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.

— Clarence Darrow

Sadly, most labor attorneys will advise you not to say you're wrong to anyone, because that might lead them to have something…

— Mark Goulston

I got my start in lefty journalism as a labor reporter at 'In These Times', and it's in my blood.

— Chris Hayes

I work a lot on skill demands and changes in labor markets having to do with technology and with trade as well.

— David Autor

The rising productivity of labor is a myth, a statistical illusion created by measuring combined output in terms of labor input.

— Louis O. Kelso

“...we must remember that we all make the things of this earth of value because of labor.”

— Carson McCullers

The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can.

— William H. Seward

Our machines increasingly do our work for us. Why doesn't this make our labor redundant and our skills obsolete? Why are there…

— David Autor

Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.

— Aaron Sorkin

Permit us to labor on in obscurity, and at the end of twenty years you may hear from us again.

— Adoniram Judson

From our perspective, as an antitrust enforcer, we're supposed to protect competition in all markets. That includes labor markets.

— Lina Khan

I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a…

— Thomas Jefferson

I lead Labor - Labor is the party that founded the state of Israel; it's deeply rooted in Israeli society.

— Isaac Herzog

I accomplish more when I rest wholly in the labor of Jesus than I do when I frantically try to do the…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Giving to God should come from the firstfruits of a person's labor rather than from what is left after the bills are…

— Max Anders