Quotes About Labor

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an 'ethic.'

Two-point-seven percent unemployment equates to -- everybody who wants to work is working. It equates to full employment.

Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put three man-years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product, and distributing it for free?

Industry cannot flourish if labor languish.

The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work.

Playing golf is not hot work. Cutting sugar cane for a dollar a day - that's hot work. Hotter than my first wrist watch.

My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat

Get work, get work; Be sure 'tis better than what you work to get.

The Moor has done his work, the Moor may go.

Painting is manual labor, no different from any other; it can be done well or poorly.

Work is valued by the social value of the worker.

No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer.

For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchenthan witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.

I wish my brother would learn a trade, so I would know what kind of work he's out of.

Every man is better for a period of work under the open sky.

The value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor.

When you can't create you can work

The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.

Contemporary industrial society is now characterised more than ever by "the need for stupefying work where it is no longer a real necessity."

It seemed pathetic and terrible to me and it still does, that men and women work eight hours a day at jobs that bring them no joy, no reward save a few dollars.

From borrowing one gets poorer and from work one gets richer.

The first to come and the last to go, working for that minimum wage.

It felt good doing a physical job, and going home each evening feeling like I had really done a day's work.

In order to keep pace with the influx of work I had to take on fresh hands.