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Walter Reuther Quotes

There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.

There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.

Walter Reuther
Inspirational, Wisdom, Helping Others
Walter Reuther (1961). “Selected Papers”, New York : Macmillan

There's a direct relationship between the ballot box and the bread box, and what the union fights for and wins at the bargaining table can be taken away in the legislative halls.

Walter Reuther
Taken, Fighting, Winning
Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the United Auto Workers, Vol. 22, 1970.

There is no power in the world that can stop the forward march of free men and women when they are joined in the solidarity of human brotherhood.

Walter Reuther
Freedom, Power, Men

Labor is not fighting for a larger slice of the national pie-labor is fighting for a larger pie.

Walter Reuther
Struggle, Fighting, Pie
The New Republic, Vol. 114, 1946.

If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.

Walter Reuther
Inspirational, Failure, Winning

Profit sharing in the form of stock distributions to workers would help to democratize the ownership of America's vast corporate wealth which is today appallingly undemocratic and unhealthy.

Walter Reuther
America, Politics, Profit Sharing

Management has no divine rights.

Walter Reuther
Struggle, Divine Right, Rights

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quack like a duck, then it just may be a duck.

Walter Reuther
Ducks, May, Looks

We believe this approach (progress sharing) is a rational approach because you cooperate in creating the abundance that makes the progress possible, and then you share that progress after the fact, and not before the fact. Profit sharing would resolve the conflict between management apprehensions and worker expectations on the basis of solid economic facts as they materialize rather than on the basis of speculation as to what the future might hold.

Walter Reuther
Believe, Creating, Expectations

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