Employed Quote by Albert Schweitzer

A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its…

— William Booth

Capital has its proper place and is entitled to every protection. The wages of men should be recognized in the structure of and in…

— Abraham Lincoln

Human capital will go where it is wanted, and it will stay where it is well treated. It cannot be driven; it can only…

— Walter Wriston

Thus, the capital owner is not a parasite or a rentier but a worker - a capital worker. A distinction between labor work and…

— Louis O. Kelso

“...To allow the market mechanism to be sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment, indeed, even of the amount…

— Karl Polanyi

An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Capital requires the separation of the worker from the means of production and subsistence”

— Peter Linebaugh

A man who is without capital, and who, by prohibitions upon banking, is practically forbidden to hire any, is in a condition elevated but…

— Lysander Spooner

Capitals are increased by parsimony, and diminished by prodigalityand misconduct. By what a frugal man annually saves he not onlyaffords maintenance to an additional…

— Adam Smith

“What is the species of domestic industry which his capital can employ, and of which the produce is likely to be of the greatest…

— Adam Smith

Capital is not a free gift of God or of nature. It is the outcome of a provident restriction of consumption on the part…

— Ludwig von Mises

Whatever capital you divert to the support of a shiftless and good-for-nothing person is so much diverted from some other employment, and that means…

— William Graham Sumner