Workers Quotes - Page 32

• I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.

  Rachel Roy

  People, Insightful, Way

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• Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.

  Paul Ryan

  Business, Skills, Ideas

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• Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.

  Paul Samuelson

  Europe, United States, Doe

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• CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. That is not what America is supposed to be about.

  Bernie Sanders

  America, Corporations, Ceo

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted.

  Margaret Sanger

  War, Limits, Poverty

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion.

  Margaret Sanger

  Fashion, Children, Men

  Family Limitation introduction (1914)

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• As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number of various trade unions with varied political views.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Numbers, Views, Political

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• In the 1960s, if you were a blue collar worker or uneducated, and you had an injury on the job, the company basically dismissed you.

  Howard Schultz

  Jobs, Blue, Injury

  "Starbucks' Howard Schultz on how he became coffee king". www.mirror.co.uk. August 5, 2010.

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• A recent Pew Hispanic survey found that more than 70 percent of illegal immigrants from Mexico are interested in a guest-worker program and then returning home.

  John Shadegg

  Home, Mexico, Guests

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• I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

  Al Sharpton

  Mom, Mother, Rags

  "Sharpton answers Bush in speech". www.cnn.com. July 29, 2004.

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• Although unions may be good for a worker, singular, they are not always good for workers, plural. Especially when it comes to finding a job.

  Amity Shlaes

  Jobs, Unions, May

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• We've always been in favor of improved wages for workers. When you have a strong middle class, they want to buy more stuff at Costco.

  James Sinegal

  Strong, Class, Wages

  "Online Extra: At Costco, "Good Jobs and Good Wages"". Interview with Michelle Conlin, www.bloomberg.com. May 31, 2004.

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• Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company. The message is that all brilliance emanates from the top; that the worker on the floor of the store or the factory is insignificant.

  James Sinegal

  Salary, Messages, Factories

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• You don't have a very motivated working class, it starts to affect the dynamics of the economy. If workers are disenchanted and disenfranchised, productivity losses will go along with that.

  James Sinegal

  Loss, Class, Dynamics

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• If we are concerned about the exploitation of human workers in countries with low standards of worker protection, we should also be concerned about the treatment of even more defenceless non-human animals.

  Peter Singer

  Country, Animal, Protection

  "Religion's regressive hold on animal rights issues" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2010.

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• With high underemployment - currently over one million part-time workers in the UK want to work more hours - sanctioning clients who cannot increase their hours seems to be both unworkable and unfair.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Want, Clients, Hours

  Welfare bill won't work, key advisers tell Iain Duncan Smith" by Daniel Boffey, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2012.

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• I'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy.

  Patti Smith

  People, Want, Embrace

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• I believe in an America in which the fruits of productivity and prosperity are shared by all, by workers as well as owners, by those at the bottom as well as those at the top; an America in which the sacrifices required by national security are shared by all, by profiteers in the back offices as well as volunteers on the front lines.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  Believe, Sacrifice, America

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• Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year.

  Arlen Specter

  Strong, Health, Years

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• Any reasonable economist will tell you that it's nearly impossible to isolate the impact of right-to-work laws on a state's job growth. A multitude of other factors intervene. However, one thing the numbers can show is that right-to-work laws have a negative effect on the wages of workers in that state.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Jobs, Impact, Law

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• Work is valued by the social value of the worker.

  Gloria Steinem

  Social Values, Racism, Reconstruction

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.374, Open Road Media

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• In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they'd never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened by the passage of the Wagner Act, which made collective bargaining easier, unions organized industries across the country, remaking the economy.

  James Surowiecki

  Country, Heart, Done

  "State of the Unions". www.newyorker.com. January 17, 2011.

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• Being unemployed is even more disastrous for individuals than you'd expect. Aside from the obvious harm - poverty, difficulty paying off debts - it seems to directly affect people's health, particularly that of older workers.

  James Surowiecki

  People, Debt, Poverty

  "No End in Sight". www.newyorker.com. April 30, 2012.

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• Disasters redistribute money from taxpayers to construction workers, from insurance companies to homeowners, and even from those who once lived in the destroyed city to those who replace them. It's remarkable that this redistribution can happen so smoothly and quickly, with devastated regions reinventing themselves in a matter of months.

  James Surowiecki

  Construction Workers, Cities, Matter

  "Creative Destruction?" by James Surowiecki, www.newyorker.com. March 28, 2011.

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• In terms of productivity - that is, how much a worker produces in an hour - there's little difference between the U.S., France, and Germany. But since more people work in America, and since they work so many more hours, Americans create more wealth.

  James Surowiecki

  Differences, America, People

  "No Work and No Play". www.newyorker.com. November 28, 2005.

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