Workers Quotes - Page 2

If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.

If people can't make ends meet at home with food, benefits, health, and health care in particular, how can they be present, engaged, knowledge workers when they come to work?

The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object.

There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.

Worker ownership is only one form of democratizing ownership.

I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.

A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly.

I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers.

I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know.

I'm not an extraordinary worker, I'm an extraordinary daydreamer. I exceed all my fantasies-even that of writing.

They see me as an ordinary guy, like a construction worker or the guy who delivers your piano.

I've spent my whole working life standing up for workers. Didn't matter if it was the two trapped miners at Beaconsfield or professional netballers or indeed factory workers or construction workers.

About Mike the construction worker, friend of Roark: "He worshipped expertness of any kind. He loved his work passionately and had no tolerance for anything save for other single-track devotions. He was a master in his own filed and felt no sympathy except for mastery. His view of the world was simple: there were the able and there were the incompetent; he was not concerned with the latter."

There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.

The bourgeoisie incites the workers of one nation against those of another in the endeavour to keep them disunited.

If you take care of your workers they'll take care of your business.

A worker without genius is better than a genius who won't work.

The better shaped his product, the more misshapen the worker.

All workers want is a fair shake.

Work should be personal. For all of us. Not just for the artist and entrepreneur. Work should have meaning for the accountant, the construction worker, the technologist, the manager and the clerk.

We're here to be worshipers first and workers only second

The workers spend what they get, and capitalists get what they spend.

Nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century exponents of prefabrication were certain it would supplant age-old traditions of individualized design and handcrafted construction. The building art would be revolutionized by freeing designers and construction workers from repetitive tasks, and democratized by making high-style architecture more affordable.

Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.