Worker Quotes

438 quotes by 367 authors

The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of workers were displaced… — Jennifer Granholm
The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave. — James Connolly
I thought if I lost the band, I was dead. If I didn't stick with the Who, I would be a sheet metal worker for… — Roger Daltrey
You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker. — Roger Daltrey
The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work. — W. Edwards Deming
When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering. — W. Edwards Deming
A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and… — Annie Dillard
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager. — Peter Drucker
When you print money, the money does not flow evenly into the economic system. It stays essentially in the financial service industry and among people… — Marc Faber
My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family… — Harvey Fierstein
I'd like to be remembered as someone who showed up for the job. I consider myself a worker. — Ernie Harwell
If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's… — Thomas Huxley
A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a… — Marcy Kaptur
As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the… — Milan Kundera
A skilled worker, regardless of the job description, remains a treasure. — Madeleine M. Kunin
To make flexibility work, it is not only necessary to change our attitude about who is a good worker and who is not, but we… — Madeleine M. Kunin
I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures. — Charles Kuralt
I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker.… — Charles Kuralt
The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer. — Christopher Lasch

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