Full Quote by Paul Hoffman

Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.

— Samuel Johnson

As the economy turns, one of the most significant impediments to economic growth is going to be labor availability.

— Thom Tillis

Think how modern economics presents work. Only labour that contributes to growth counts.

— Guy Standing

Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants theretofore unknown, by permitting leisure.

— Isabel Paterson

People want to work, but they don't want to necessarily want to do labour.

— Guy Standing

I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer.

— Leland Stanford

There is no substitute for work; what seems ease of performance comes from the greatest labor.

— Pablo Casals

Industry cannot flourish if labor languish.

— Calvin Coolidge

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

Without labor nothing prospers.

— Sophocles

Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes…

— Lucy Larcom

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