Workers Quotes

• Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

  Karl Marx

  World, Uniting, Communist Manifesto

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• Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.

  Peter Drucker

  Jobs, Responsibility, Top Management

  Peter Drucker, Harvard Business Review (2016). “The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking”, p.8, Harvard Business Review Press

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  The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Team, Nfl

  "The Mentor Leader". Book by Tony Dungy, www.today.com. 2010.

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• The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Work, Race, Savior

  "The Servant Problem" by Lewis Lapham, www.motherjones.com. April 4, 2011.

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• There are many skillful apprentices, but few master workmen.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Perfection, Masters, Workmen

  Henry David Thoreau (1937). “The selected works of Thoreau”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• The most important thing in industry is the person who does the industry, which is the worker... Labor is the only source of wealth.

  Eli Siegel

  Important, Doe, Wealth

  Eli Siegel (1970). “Goodbye Profit System: 8 Aesthetic Realism Lectures May 22 to July 10, 1970, Reported by Students of Aesthetic Realism”

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• The most important word in the language of the working class is "solidarity."

  Harry Bridges

  Class, Unity, Important

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• Seek out people to work with who are brimming with talent, energy, integrity, optimism, and generosity.

  Martha Stewart

  Business, Integrity, Work

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• Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.

  George Carlin

  Running, Smart, Thinking

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• I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

  Benjamin Harrison

  Money, Inspirational Life, Men

  "Rain Still Follows Him: The President's Vermont Trip Marked by Storms". Speech in Rutland, Vermont, reported in The New York Times, August 29, 1891 issue p. 5,

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• How can we vote for a bill [S.744] that our own CBO says will reduce average wages in America for 12 years, increase unemployment for 7 years, and reduce per capita GNP growth over 25 years? A bill that will admit 30 million people to permanent legal status in the next 10 years? That will dramatically increase the annual immigration flow, and will double the guest worker flow?

  Jeff Sessions

  Average, Years, America

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• What every employer is looking for is not someone who can do the job, but someone who can reinvent the job.

  Thomas Friedman

  Jobs, Work, Job Well Done

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• Financial struggle is often the direct result of people working all their lives for someone else.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Money, Business

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Nov 09, 2012

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• Yes I'm a worker, but I'm working on what I'm passionate about and what I believe in not what someone else is passionate about!

  Eric Thomas

  Believe, Passionate, I Believe

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• If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless.

  Darryl F. Zanuck

  Teamwork, Time, Jobs

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• The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.

  David Ricardo

  Business, Wages, Farming

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1852). “The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch”, p.68

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• What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist — the right to life as the rich woman has the right to life, and the sun and music and art. You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also. The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with.

  Rose Schneiderman

  Art, Fighting, Giving

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• The age of miracles has not past. The Miracle Worker is still ALIVE. His name is Jesus Christ!

  T. B. Joshua

  Jesus, Past, Names

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• The essence of leadership is the capacity to build and develop the self-esteem of the workers.

  Irwin Federman

  Self Esteem, Essence, Capacity

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• I'd love to be an artist that's multifaceted. At the moment, I am not. But wouldn't that be cool if I was like, 'Yeah, let me pull out my guitar and play you a song.' I would adore that. I am so far not gifted in that way. But I am a very hard worker and a very determined person, so who knows?

  Anne Hathaway

  Song, Hard Work, Artist

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• We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job training services.

  Joe Baca

  Jobs, America, Training

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• Finally, it was about how people treat one another. It was about human dignity. We forced the employers to treat us as equals, to sit down and talk to us about the work we do, how we do it, and what we get paid for it. And I believe that the principles for which we fought in 1934 are still true and still useful. Whether your job is pushing a four-wheeler, or programming a computer, I don't know of any way for working people to win basic economic justice and dignity except by being organized into a solid, democratic union.

  Harry Bridges

  Jobs, Work, Believe

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• The Forgotten Man is delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and the school, reading his newspaper, and cheering for the politician of his admiration, but he is the only one for whom there is no provision in the great scramble and the big divide. Such is the Forgotten Man. He works, he votes, generally he prays — but he always pays — yes, above all, he pays.

  William Graham Sumner

  Life, Family, Prayer

  "The Forgotten Man and Other Essays".

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• Very few restaurant workers could even dream of eating in the restaurants they work in. Many do not make a living wage.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Dream, Eating, Restaurants

  "A 'Brutally Honest' Taste Of Anthony Bourdain's Hunger Tour At Foxwoods". Interview with Leeanne Griffin, www.courant.com. September 26, 2016.

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• In Florida, then, and for farm workers for the most part in the US, there's a real sense of economic segregation. In the South, the structures of economic segregation still existed.

  Sanjay Rawal

  Real, Florida, Segregation

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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