Employers Quotes - Page 16

• My personal view is that nobody should stand between an employer and employee when it comes to employment contract negations. Not the government and not meddlesome third parties. This includes the ability for individuals to bargain collectively with their employers.

  Mark Noble

  Party, Government, Views

  Source: www.columbusunderground.com

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• There are a lot of little tricks you can do to inject a bit more time into the day. Most important is limiting yourself to a 40 hour week, not working 50 hours or 60 or 70. It's just crazy. It's actually irresponsible to you and irresponsible to your family and friends. Why should your employer's profits be more important than your own family? You're not even going to get any of the profits - all you get is not losing your job. It's a very negative system.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Jobs, Crazy, Important

  "How To Be Idle: An Interview with Tom Hodgkinson". Interview with Katie Renz, www.motherjones.com. June 8, 2005.

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• The industrial world would be a more peaceful place if workers were called in as collaborators in the process of establishing standards and defining shop practices, matters which surely affect their interests and well-being fully as much as they affect those of employers and consumers.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Practice, Peaceful, Matter

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• Taking the politics out of setting the minimum wage provides fairness for workers and predictability for businesses. This legislation will also protect the most vulnerable workers and level the playing field for employers who play by the rules. These are the right steps to take; they will make Ontario a better place to work and run a business.

  Kevin Flynn

  Running, Play, Ontario

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• I've always quit jobs without telling the employer that I was quitting; I just wouldn't show up one day.

  Kurt Cobain

  Jobs, One Day, Quitting

  "Kurt Cobain: Lost Interview". Guitar World Interview, kuriakon00.tripod.com. July 22, 1993.

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• As the feudal system retained many of the elements of slavery, modified by the traditions, customs, and practices of the primitive communities, so capitalism retained the essential usurpations of feudalism, though professing to guard personal freedom, and to observe equity between the owner and the occupier of the land, the employer and the employed.

  Joshua K. Ingalls

  Land, Practice, Community

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• My father was a journalist for 50 years in Leeds and Fleet Street. I thought about a career in business to show I could do something different, but the reaction among prospective employers was, shall we say, underwhelming.

  Lionel Barber

  Father, Years, Careers

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• Children exist in the world as well as in the family. From the moment they are born, they depend on a host of other “grownups” — grandparents, neighbors, teachers, ministers, employers, political leaders, and untold others who touch their lives directly and indirectly.

  Hillary Clinton

  Teacher, Children, Grandparent

  "It Takes a Village".

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• I am very gratified to have lived to see a revolution in the field of work/life: Everyone - men and women, employees and employers - now has this issue top of mind.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  Men, Issues, Mind

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Invest in helping people know what matters to them and who matters to them (and why), and encourage them to continually experiment with how they get things done in ways the serve their interests and yours as an employer.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  What Matters, People, Done

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Employers able to work together with workers and sharing gains and profits will lead to a much better world, getting away from income inequality.

  Dolores Huerta

  Working Together, Income, World

  "We Need To Keep Ringing the Bell". Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. August 20, 2016.

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• If you didn't have employers able to pay off the books and off the record safely in cash, you wouldn't have illegal immigration on nearly the scale that we do.

  Kenneth Rogoff

  Book, Records, Cash

  "'The Curse Of Cash' Makes Case For A World Without Paper Money". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. September 1, 2016.

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• Utah sells itself to Fortune 500 companies as a noncasino state where employers don't have to be concerned about absenteeism and other problems associated with gambling

  John Warren Kindt

  Gambling, Utah, Problem

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• Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.

  Leon Trotsky

  Mean, States, Sole

  "The Revolution Betrayed: What Is the Soviet Union and Where Is It Going?"by Leon Trotsky, translated by Max Eastman, (ch. 11), 1936.

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• I mean, let's take the average spouse. You know, you show up in an employer's, you know, office, and it's shown that you've changed jobs every two years. Well, to many employers that could be viewed as a red flag. But the truth is, is that you've made those moves because you're serving your country, and each time you've found a career, and you've been able to provide for your family, and you've continued to volunteer, and on and on and on.

  Michelle Obama

  Country, Jobs, Moving

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I think employers need help in understanding how to translate a military career.

  Michelle Obama

  Military, Thinking, Careers

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Donald Trump used undocumented labor to build the Trump Tower. He underpaid undocumented workers, and when they complained, he basically said what a lot of employers do: "You complain, I'll get you deported."

  Hillary Clinton

  Towers, Complaining, Undocumented Workers

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• Bringing undocumented immigrants out from the shadows, putting them into the formal economy will be good, because then employers can't exploit them and undercut Americans' wages.

  Hillary Clinton

  Shadow, Wages, Economy

  Transcript of the Third Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• When the highwayman holds his gun to your head, you turn your valuables over to him. You 'consent' alright, but you do so because you cannot help yourself, because you are compelled by his gun. Are you not compelled to work for an employer? Your need compels you, just as the highwayman's gun.

  Alexander Berkman

  Gun, Needs, Helping

  Alexander Berkman, Emma Goldman (2005). “The ABC of Anarchism”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• Most employers I speak to, they want to create jobs and give decent salaries. Some small and medium companies say to me they cannot afford to pay the living wage. I say "what about if I gave you a business rate cut?" and they say, yes, ok. We want companies which are skilled up, generating more profit, more corporation tax - we should not be embarrassed at success, as long as they pay their taxes.

  Sadiq Khan

  Jobs, Cutting, Giving

  Source: www.alastaircampbell.org

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• Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she'd added her second employee, she was a pillar of her 35,000-person community. No rule says that only the local banker or car dealer can organize the program to raise supplemental funds for the public library or send the high school band on a well-earned special trip. Participating in community affairs, with time more than dollars, is good business from day one. It gets your name around, adds to your distinctiveness, and, best of all, makes you an attractive employer (which is the key to sustained success).

  Tom Peters

  Business, Real, School

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times”, p.117, Vintage

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• I'm fairly sure I didn't show enough gratitude to my employers, and I'm sorry for that.

  Val Kilmer

  Gratitude, Sorry, Enough

  Interview with Lawrence Inglee, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• What was to be a relatively innocuous federal government, operating from a defined enumeration of specific grants of power, has become an ever-present and unaccountable force. It is the nation’s largest creditor, debtor, lender, employer, consumer, contractor, grantor, property owner, tenant, insurer, health-care provider, and pension guarantor. Moreover, with aggrandized police powers, what it does not control directly it bans or mandates by regulation.

  Mark Levin

  Government, Police, Debtors

  "The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic". Book by Mark Levin, August 13, 2013.

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• The great crime which the moneyed classes and promoters of industry committed in the palmy Victorian days was the condemning of the workers to ugliness, ugliness, ugliness: meanness and formless and ugly surroundings, ugly ideals, ugly religion, ugly hope, ugly love, ugly clothes, ugly furniture, ugly houses, ugly relationship between workers and employers. The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Class, Clothes, House

  D. H. Lawrence (2017). “Phoenix: the Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence by D. H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.138, Delphi Classics (Parts Edition) via PublishDrive

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• We should abolish 'work.' By that I mean abolishing the distinction between work and leisure, one of the greatest mistakes of the last century, one that enables employers to keep workers in lousy jobs by granting them some leisure time.

  Theodore Zeldin

  Jobs, Mistake, Mean

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