Depends Quote by Charles Babbage

The most important thing in industry is the person who does the industry, which is the worker... Labor is the only source of wealth.

— Eli Siegel

It is preferable to regard labour, including, of course, the personal services of the entrepreneur, and his assistants, as the sole factor of production,…

— John Maynard Keynes

It is inherent in the nature of the capitalistic economy that, in the final analysis, the employment of the factors of production is aimed…

— Ludwig von Mises

Thus the labour of a manufacture adds, generally, to the value of the materials which he works upon, that of his own maintenance, and…

— Adam Smith

“The owner of the means of production is in a position to purchase the labor power of the worker. By using the means of…

— Albert Einstein

“The most important thing in industry is the person who does the industry, which is the worker…. Labor is the only source of wealth.…

— Eli Siegel

“The effects of the division of labour, in the general business of society, will be more easily understood by considering in what manner it…

— Adam Smith

Manufacturing productivity is greatly determined by the design of jobs and how workers are rewarded.

— James O'Toole

We owe the origin and development of human society and, consequently, of culture and civilization, to the fact that work performed under the division…

— Ludwig von Mises

Manufacturing is the most important...route to prosperity.

— Ha-Joon Chang

“The division of labour, however, so far as it can be introduced, occasions, in every art, a proportionable increase of the productive powers of…

— Adam Smith

“A fundamental insight of modern economics is that the key to the creation of wealth is a division of labor, in which specialists learn…

— Steven Pinker