Labor Quote by John D. Rockefeller

Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.

— Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not…

— Abraham Lincoln

Each needs the other: capital cannot do without labor, nor labor without capital.

— Pope Leo I

Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and…

— Abraham Lincoln

The creation of new capital always... releases... labor. Its actual effect [though] is not to make jobs scarce, but to free men's labor for…

— Frederic Bastiat

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

— Peter Linebaugh

Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration

— Abraham Lincoln

Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed had not labor first existed.

— Abraham Lincoln

Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great,…

— William Graham Sumner

Capital simply allows us to expend labour in advance.

— William Stanley Jevons

There is a good deal of solemn cant about the common interests of capital and labor. As matters stand, their only common interest is…

— Brooks Atkinson

It is time that capital and labor realized that their interests are really comutual, as interdependent as the brain and the body; time they…

— William Cowper Brann