Quotes About Labor

Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money.

Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.

Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity.

When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal.

Money is the harvest of our production and service. We in turn use it to obtain the production and service of others.

What you do for money you do badly.

The world needs ditch diggers, too.

There were a zillion bad jobs. That doesn't exist any more. I mean, I could wake up one afternoon with zero money and know that by the end of the day, I would have money.

There's a pretty equitable distribution in the restaurant industry of how money gets paid, except for in the kitchen. The kitchen is the lowest-paid group of people.

Labor unions should study and read the Bible instead of asking for more money. When people get right with God, they are better workers.

The most popular labor-saving device today is still a husband with money.

Samuel Gompers has spent his life trying to keep labor from working too hard and has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.

g*d wept, but that mattered little to an unbelieving age ... for there began to rise in America in 1876 a new capitalism & a new enslavement of labor" --w.e.b. dubois

Only merchants have money to waste, and what are they but parasites who create nothing, grow nothing, make nothing but feed off another's labor?

Capitalism has turned human beings into commodities. To the owner of a restaurant: the cook and a bag of potatoes are equally important.

Be the business never so painful you may have it done for money.

We forget that money gives its value - that someone exchanged work for it.

No matter how much money you make, no matter how famous you are, you're not above going outside and cutting trees. I do it all the time.

I'm an active participation guy. No matter how much money you make, no matter how famous you are, you're not above going outside and cutting trees. I do it all the time.

Finance is not merely about making money. It's about achieving our deep goals and protecting the fruits of our labor. It's about stewardship and, therefore, about achieving the good society.

To get up in the morning & do the monumental tasks that face us, our labor is best fueled by love.

The fact that I still find so much beauty in a handicraft is because my mother taught us to see not just the craft as a product but the craft as an embodiment of human creativity and human labor.

My father was a member of the Teamsters Union in California, where he helped to organize better health care for workers. My mother worked for more than 20 years on an assembly line.

The one thing that matters is the effort.