Conditions Quote by Aristotle

If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need…

— Aristotle

A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Sometimes, one must become a master to avoid becoming a slave.

— Octavia Butler

In the long-run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is not so…

— Adam Smith

The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it.

— Peter Drucker

A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Neither…

— Lysander Spooner

The corporation is the "master", the employee is the "servant". Because the corporation owns the means of production without which the employee could not…

— Peter Drucker

Masters (employers), provide your slaves (employees) with what is right and fair, because you know that you also have a Master in heaven.

— Sharlene05

The master is a slave when he fears those whom he rules.

— Publilius Syrus

We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend…

— Edward Abbey

This mutual dependencies no longer the dialectical relationship between master and servant, which has been broken in the struggle for mutual recognition, but rather…

— Herbert Marcuse

The manager's function is not to make people work, but to make it possible for people to work.

— Tom DeMarco