Workers Quotes · Page 15

My father was a meat worker. He was a union organizer in the meat workers union.

— Michael Leunig

I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers

— John D. Rockefeller

I kind of try to resist working a lot. I'm not a very disciplined worker.

— Sheila Heti

The Workers' Party will not be like the Japanese in World War II.

— Pritam Singh

Dispirited, unmotivated, unappreciated workers cannot compete in a highly competitive world.

— Frances Hesselbein

Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not our task to descend to…

— Anonymous

Supporting and publicising the campaigns of smaller unions pressures bosses to accept workers' demands.

— Dawn Foster

The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the…

— Akio Morita

There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better…

— Bertolt Brecht

Done right, a performance review is one of the best opportunities to encourage and support high performers and constructively improve your middle-…

— Kathryn Minshew

Homemakers work longer and harder than any other class of worker in the United States for less pay, and are the most…

— Gloria Steinem

I have always felt that it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labor organization.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I want to get everybody out of the shadows, get the economy working, and not let employers like Donald Trump exploit undocumented…

— Hillary Clinton

In the Catholic Worker we must try to have the voluntary poverty of St. Francis, the charity of St. Vincent de Paul,…

— Peter Maurin

One reason that might motivate a worker to accept a riskier job at higher pay, for example, would be that doing so…

— Robert H. Frank

Encouragement is oxygen to the soul. Good work can never be expected from a worker without encouragement. No one ever climbed spiritual…

— George Matthew Adams

The history of science teaches only too plainly the lesson that no single method is absolutely to be relied upon, that sources…

— John William Strutt

I'm not against trade...but they're not really trade deals. They're really investment deals between international corporations...They're saying we want to get a…

— Keith Ellison

Since we are made up of comedians and filmmakers and writers and improvisers, we have the unique opportunity to bring joy to…

— Lizz Winstead

Low unemployment numbers are clear indicators that Republican tax relief and economic policies are spurring growth and helping businesses hire new workers…

— J. D. Hayworth

There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone. Oh, she can get along financially perhaps (though not nearly…

— Erica Jong

Only those are called liberal or free which are concerned with knowledge; those which are concerned with utilitarian ends... are called servile...The…

— Josef Pieper

There are vivid memories from my childhood-what we had to go through because of low wages and the conditions, basically because there…

— Cesar Chavez

One of the things I did during my 17 years as a psychiatric social worker was go around and find people with…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Imperialism has now reached a degree of almost scientific perfection. It uses White workers to conquer the non-white workers of The Colonies.…

— Ho Chi Minh

I think it's time we had a President who will provide the only real economic security: good jobs. A President who will…

— John F. Kerry

We need scientists to design new fuels. We need farmers to help grow them. We need engineers to invent new technologies. We…

— Barack Obama

“My task to keep everyone focused wasn’t easy. A cartoonist pictured two workers in hard hats on a scaffold, one about to…

— Eugene Cernan

In 1968, the sanitation workers of Memphis tried to form a union. The city resisted. The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. came…

— Robert Reich

Conscientious people are self-disciplined, hard workers who spend the least amount of time on Facebook.

— Amy Morin

We know that the organised workers of the country are our friends. As for the rest, they don't matter a tinker's cuss.

— Manny Shinwell, Baron Shinwell

I think it's a little insulting, a bit insulting to American workers when Rand Paul says that unemployment insurance is a disservice.

— Chuck Schumer

“When I was younger, I never had an appreciation of the health issues older workers were experiencing.”

— Steven Magee

I'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy.

— Patti Smith

The big corporations and the big companies turned musicians into factory workers on an assembly line.

— Ray Davies

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Thanks to President Bush and Republican principles, businesses now have more confidence to hire workers.

— John Doolittle

From Uber and Lyft drivers to financial advisors to local artists, we should support workers' freedom and our gig economy.

— Young Kim

When a Russian pig has to be beaten, it would be the ordinary German worker who would have to do it.

— Robert Ley

We will reform legal immigration to serve the best interests of America and its workers, the forgotten people. Workers. We're going to…

— Donald Trump