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
I do believe CDSs [credit default swaps] have been miscast, much as poor workmen tend to blame their tools. — Blythe Masters Copy Share Image
When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window. — George Eliot 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
The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
If workmen are denied any increase in real wages and they can look forward only to a better standard of living through… — Charles E. Wilson Copy Share Image
A poor leader will tell you how many people work for them. A great leader will tell you how many people they… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
If they are good workmen, they may be of Asia, Africa, or Europe. They may be Mohometans, Jews or Christians of any… — George Washington Copy Share Image
There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and… — Leland Stanford 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
Where there is a wine-shop, there are the elements of disease and the frightful source of all that is at enmity with… — Charles Forbes Rene de Montalembert Copy Share Image
Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why should the wealth of the country be stored in banks and elevators while the idle workman wanders homeless about the streets… — Samuel Gompers 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
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
[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
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
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
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
No academy could have given me all I discovered by getting my teeth into the exhibitions, the shop windows, and the museums… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
It was many years ago that I got out of a crewtruck in the national forest and ran toward a large glowing… — Travis Walton Copy Share Image
Mr. Thornton," said Margaret, shaking all over with her passion, "go down this instant, if you are not a coward. Go down… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
The workman cut to the left, still laying on his horn, and roared around the drunkenly weaving limousine. He invited the driver… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Time is in itself [not] a difficulty, but a time-rate, assumed on very insufficient grounds, is used as a master-key, whether or… — Joseph Prestwich Copy Share Image
Among civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do no labor at all, many of whom… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
After all, there is such a thing as looking like a gentleman. There are men whose class no dirt or rags can… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
The more I move among workers and factories and other plants, the stronger I become convinced that it is advisable to have… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
![“I do believe CDSs [credit default swaps] have been miscast, much as poor workmen tend to blame their tools.” quote by Blythe Masters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc4/blythe-masters-19003_believe_i-do-believe-cdss-credit-default-swaps-h_2461427.png)
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![“Time is in itself [not] a difficulty, but a time-rate, assumed on very insufficient grounds, is used as a master-key, whether or not it fits, to unravel all difficulties. What if it were suggested that the brick-built Pyramid of Hawara had been laid brick by brick by a single workman? Given time…” quote by Joseph Prestwich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b97/joseph-prestwich-250484_bounds_time-is-in-itself-not-a-difficulty-but-a_370434.png)
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