Doe Quote by John Ruskin

Perhaps the most important principle on which the economy of a manufacture depends, is the division of labour amongst the persons who perform the…

— Charles Babbage

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

— Tim Bishop

Production is not something physical, material, and external; it is a spiritual and intellectual phenomenon.

— Ludwig von Mises

It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man.

— Ludwig von Mises

Among civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do no labor at all, many of whom consume the…

— Adam Smith

No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

— Abraham Lincoln

What a country wants to make it richer is never consumption, but production. Where there is the latter, we may be sure that there…

— John Stuart Mill

No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need.

— Karl Marx

Labor, being itself a commodity, is measured as such by the labor time needed to produce the labor-commodity. And what is needed to produce…

— Karl Marx

A manufacturing nation is, in every sense of the word, dependent on others. Look to England! Cut off from the markets of the world,…

— John Tyler

I have always said to workers that they have to work hard, to produce more and better. In Chile, we need to achieve an…

— Salvador Allende

There must be labor, incessant and constant, if there is to be a harvest.

— Gordon B. Hinckley