Workers Quotes - Page 5

• Profit isn't and shouldn't be the mission of business. The mission of business is to help people. To help your customers, your co-workers, your employees, and your partners. Success is not a number - it's not X dollars or Y customers - it's a measurement of VALUE.

  Fran Tarkenton

  Numbers, People, Dollars

  "3 Business Myths People Should Stop Believing" by Fran Tarkenton, www.businessinsider.com. January 14, 2015.

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• I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers.

  Hugh Masekela

  Struggle, Community, March

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• I had to run away from home in order to be a musician. Because I came from a family of... my father was a health inspector; my mother was a social worker. And I was pretty smart in school. So they expected me to be some kind of academic - schoolteacher, or doctor, lawyer - and they were very disappointed when I told them I wanted to be a musician.

  Hugh Masekela

  Mother, Running, Smart

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• Workers must participate in progress to enjoy their work and take pride in its product.

  George W. Romney

  Pride, Progress, Enjoy

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• If we aim to act in harmony with the laws of Good, we rise above all other laws and become a law unto ourselves; co-workers with God and helpers in nature. Ours is the privilege, ours the loss, if we fail to live up to our highest possibilities.

  Max Heindel

  Loss, Law, Privilege

  Max Heindel (2016). “Simplified Scientific Astrology”, p.11, Max Heindel

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• Johnny Cash was a rebel, not only just in the musical sense, but he was somebody who was for the people, and an advocate for labor, for workers, for prisoners, people who have been trapped by the criminal justice system.

  Michael Franti

  People, Justice, Musical

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• The way we eat has changed more in the last 50 years than in the previous 10,000…. Now our food is coming from enormous assembly lines where the animals and the workers are being abused, and the food has become much more dangerous in ways that are deliberately hidden from us. This isn’t just about what we’re eating. It’s about what we’re allowed to say. What we’re allowed to know.

  Eric Schlosser

  Animal, Years, Lines

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• Let me go out on a limb and suggest that those who see hints of a new class ideology developing around information technology are not necessarily wild-eyed. "Bit-twiddlers" are neither exactly proletariat nor bourgeoisie. They may not own the means of production in the sense that Marx argued, but they certainly do have significantly control over those means, in a more profound way than the term "symbols analysts" or "knowledge workers" captures. As a rough generalization, they value science and technological problem-solving elegance equally at least with profit.

  Steven Weber

  Mean, Technology, Class

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• To confine soldiers to purely military functions while urgent and vital tasks have to be done, and nobody else is available to undertake them, would be senseless. The soldier must then be prepared to become a propagandist, a social worker, a civil engineer, a schoolteacher, a nurse, a boy scout. But only for as long as he cannot be replaced, for it is better to entrust civilian tasks to civilians.

  David Galula

  Military, Boys, Nurse

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• My research clearly reveals that if we want to put inner-city workers to work immediately, we just can't rely on the private sector. They don't want to touch them; they don't want to hire them.

  William Julius Wilson

  Cities, Research, Want

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• Black employers are just as negative as the white employers concerning inner-city workers.

  William Julius Wilson

  Cities, White, Black

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• Im a hard worker, and everything with me is, if I work hard, I should get paid for it. Everything with me, I try to symbolize something flashy like jewelry or a car. The rubbing hands is a symbol of hustling, so it goes back to the money.

  Birdman

  Hard Work, Hands, Car

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• All workers want is a fair shake.

  James P. Hoffa

  Want, Shakes, Fairs

  "Corporate America: 'Have You No Sense of Decency?'" by James P. Hoffa, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2013.

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• More retirees, longer life expectancy, larger benefits, and fewer workers - these trends have meant substantial increases in the payroll tax. Since the social security program began, the payroll tax has increased more than 500 percent.

  Alex Tabarrok

  Payroll Tax, Benefits, Trends

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• I suppose the White House thinks it's doing what Big Business wants, but it will lead to vastly increased taxes, because all these guest workers are to be allowed to bring their children.

  Peter Brimelow

  Children, Thinking, White

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• We need to reduce military budgets; raise living standards; engender respect for learning; support science, scholarship, invention, and industry; promote free inquiry; reduce domestic coercion; involve the workers more in managerial decisions; and promote genuine respect and understanding derived from an acknowledgement of our common humanity and our common jeopardy.

  Carl Sagan

  Military, Common Humanity, Decision

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium”, p.178, Ballantine Books

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• I was shy and a hard worker, so acting was a way to focus whatever nervous energy I was experiencing onto a goal.

  Deborah Ann Woll

  Hard Work, Goal, Focus

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

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• The best thing workers can bring to their jobs is a lifelong thirst for learning.

  Jack Welch

  Jobs, Lifelong, Thirst

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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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• When work is not going well, it's useful to remember that our identities stretch beyond what is on the business card, that we were people long before we became workers - and will continue to be human once we have put our tools down forever.

  Alain de Botton

  Long, People, Forever

  AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• For today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology. Where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. Our Unification of Thought is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people. With one will. One resolve. One cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death. And we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fear, Powerful, Army

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• The worker who knows the cause of his misery, who understands the make-up of our iniquitous social and industrial system can do more for himself and his kind than Christ and the followers of Christ have ever done for humanity; certainly more than meek patience, ignorance, and submission have done.

  Emma Goldman

  Ignorance, Humanity, Atheism

  Emma Goldman (1913). “Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature”

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• Every doer of the law and every moral worker is accursed, for he walketh in the presumption of his own righteousness.

  Martin Luther

  Law, Scary, Doers

  Martin Luther, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Tischer, Samuel Simon Schmucker (1860). “A Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians”, p.349

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• The American worker is more productive than he's ever been. We've got more people to do it. We've got all the ingredients for a sensational future. It's just that right now the athlete's on the floor. This is a super athlete.

  Howard Warren Buffett

  Athlete, People, Ingredients

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime - Charlie Rose Interview". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• When you see people that lived their purpose and sacrificed, who are everyday people - teachers, sanitation workers, and just people from all walks of life - that said, "I'm standing up for what I believe in. I'm standing up for my community." That reaffirms what you can do.

  Common

  Teacher, Believe, People

  Source: collider.com

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