Workers Quotes

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

Nothing, Lose, Unite

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
Henry David Thoreau

Time, Working, Water

My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving; I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can't figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don't deserve to be an owner.
Michael Symon

Family, Time, Money

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Men, Business, Mean

I'm no longer just a candidate. I'm the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn't return. I've shared the pain of families who've lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who've lost their jobs.
Barack Obama

Pain, Lost, Battle

Now you have a choice: we can give more tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, or we can start rewarding companies that open new plants and train new workers and create new jobs here, in the United States of America.
Barack Obama

Give, America, Here

Now workers should have the right to join unions. But unions should not be forced upon workers. And unions should not have the power to take money our of their members' paychecks to buy the support of politicians that are favored by the union bosses.
Mitt Romney

Money, Power, Support

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

Important, Jobs, Fellow

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
George Orwell

Language, Creation, Poets

Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.
Bo Bennett

Leadership, Leaders, Simply

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.
Karl Marx

Nothing, Lose, Worker

We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.
Andy Rooney

Few, Actually, Bosses

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Time, Great, Off

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

Success, Leadership, Good

The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.
Samora Machel

Medical, Care, Rich

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.
Karl Marx

Together, Labor, Among

Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
Angela Davis

Work, Black, Racism

You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.
Elizabeth Warren

Good, Fire, Rest

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.
Heraclitus

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
John Cleese

Time, Give, Enough

Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America.
John L. Lewis

Future, America, Thoughtful

Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.
E. O. Wilson

Tell, Dominant, Ants

Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered.
Deepak Chopra

Creative, Less, Mature

This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.
John D. Rockefeller

Life, Great, School

Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied.
John L. Lewis

Faith, Live, American

In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.
Deepak Chopra

Health, Wisdom, Live

Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!
Mother Jones

Child, City, Profit

Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.
Matthew Lesko

Government, Bad, Often

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

Free, Ideas, Labor

No one ever said that fighting the war against terrorism and defending our homeland would be easy. So let's support our troops, law enforcement workers, and our mission to keep our nation and our children safe in the days and years to come.
Judy Biggert

War, Children, Law

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