The workman mindful of success, therefore, will naturally direct his attention to the faultless preparation of his stock, and in order to… — Auguste Escoffier Copy Share Image
The workmen in a factory may have a shadowy, unknown absentee "employer" - the thousands of individual owners of stock - whom… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The greatest problem before engineers and managers today is the economical utilization of labor . The limiting of output by the workman,… — Henry Gantt Copy Share Image
No greater care is required upon any works than upon such as are to withstand the action of water; for this reason,… — Frontinus Copy Share Image
Every wise workman takes his tools away from the work from time to time that they may be ground and sharpened; so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[In eighteenth-century Britain] engineers for the most began as simple workmen, skilful and ambitious but usually illiterate and self-taught. They were either… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
Anyone who has undergone home repair lately knows that your everyday artisan uses language so loosely and makes false promises so glibly… — Mary McGrory Copy Share Image
There is nothing fairer than workmen having unions of their mutual benefit. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman. — Ananda Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a poor workman. — John Joseph Bernet Copy Share Image
No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The manager cannot share his power with division superintendent or foreman or workman, but he can give them opportunities for developing their… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
Refrain from drink which is the source of all evil-and the ruin of half the workmen in this Country. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience. — William Feather Copy Share Image
My idea of the real aristocrat is the master workman, no matter what his line of work may be. — Henry Latham Doherty Copy Share Image
The bad workmen who form the majority of the operatives in many branches of industry are decidedly of opinion that bad workmen… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Where the material is, that's where you go. I'm a workman: I go to work. I've done movies for nothing, literally nothing;… — Paul Sorvino Copy Share Image
A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he… — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty,… — Plato Copy Share Image
In course of time the Brothers Cowper removed the manufacture of their printing machines from London, to Manchester. There they found skilled… — James Nasmyth Copy Share Image
The teacher's chief difficulty is poverty. He (or she) belongs to a badly paid profession. He cannot dress and live like a… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
Manner and morals have improved, improved wages and world travel during the war have had effect, and the farm labourer now is… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
The employment of the poor in roads and public works, and a tendency among landlords and persons of property to build, to… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
You've been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-'fess up! With… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand. I am practically industrious - painstaking, a workman to… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Provide of thine own, to have all things at hand; Less work and the workman, unoccupied, stand. Make dry over-head both hovel… — Thomas Tusser Copy Share Image
When an apprentice gets hurt, or complains of being tired, the workmen and peasants have this fine expression: "It is the trade… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Plan the town, if you like; but in doing it do not forget that you have got to spread the people. Make… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
I do believe CDSs [credit default swaps] have been miscast, much as poor workmen tend to blame their tools. — Blythe Masters Copy Share Image
A man who tries to make the workmen believe that their employers are their natural enemies is indeed the worst enemy of… — William J. H. Boetcker Copy Share Image
A dull axe never loves grindstones, but a keen workman does; and he puts his tool on them in order that it… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image