Ancient Quote by Herbert Hoover

For a variety of reasons, we are not producing at a given level of economic activity the jobs we used to have.

— Tim Bishop

Our society has been eaten up by the economic view of things, which routinely forces us to work at jobs that don't mean anything.

— Sam Keen

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's…

— Lance Morrow

Obstacles to job creation in America are a result of policy, not of motivation.

— Rick Scott

Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.

— Alexander Crummell

American society has tried so hard and so ably to defend the practice and theory of production for profit and not primarily for use…

— Paul Goodman

The experience of the past lives little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive…

— Will Durant

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

— John Stuart Mill

America, the temple of invention and industry, doesn't make things anymore.

— Nick Clooney

Here is a fact: nothing in all civilization has been as productive as ludicrous ambition. Whatever its ills, nothing has created more. Cathedrals, sonatas,…

— Tom Rachman

“Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now…

— George Mac Donald

Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.

— William Graham Sumner