Workers Quotes

• The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Management
  • Damage
  • Workers

• I have noticed bakers with swelled hands, and painful, too; in fact the hands of all such workers become much thickened by the constant pressure of kneading the dough.

  

  Bernardino Ramazzini
  • Hands
  • Pressure
  • Bakers

• All the future of socialism resides in the autonomous development of workers’ syndicates.

  

  Georges Sorel
  • Future
  • Socialism
  • Workers

• We must first get over the myth that older workers can’t innovate.

  

  Vivek Wadhwa
  • Firsts
  • Workers
  • Myth

• DOE must expeditiously review records to determine which groups of workers who labored to make and test this country's huge nuclear arsenal were put at risk.

  

  Arjun Makhijani
  • Risk
  • Workers
  • Nuclear

• Of course it's difficult to know what the workers are really thinking because the capitalist press always only quotes mouthpieces like Vic Feather anyway.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Press
  • Capitalist
  • Quotes

• Socialism as such from its very origins is a workers' system, and when there occur deviations, it is workers that react first.

  

  Wojciech Jaruzelski
  • Socialism
  • Workers
  • React

• Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory!

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Victory
  • Countries
  • Workers

• The Social Security program is a pact between workers and their employers that they will contribute to a common fund to ensure that those who are no longer part of the work force will have a basic income on which to live. It represents our commitment as a society to the belief that workers should not live in dread that a disability, death, or old age could leave them or their families destitute.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Workers
  • Employers
  • Social Security program

• The highly skilled workers at Lima have enabled the plant to grow far beyond its original mission, now providing a wide variety of cutting-edge military vehicles and equipment to the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps.

  

  Michael Oxley
  • Army
  • Cutting
  • Equipment

• I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labour, for I have devoted to it almost all of my waking hours. But if work is interpreted to be a definite performance in a specified time according to a rigid rule, then I may be the worst of idlers.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Rule
  • Performance
  • Credited

• Workers must participate in progress to enjoy their work and take pride in its product.

  

  George W. Romney
  • Pride
  • Workers
  • Participate

• ‎The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Party
  • Workers
  • Grave

• God always works with workers and moves with movers, but He does not sit with sitters.

  

  Reinhard Bonnke
  • God
  • Workers
  • Movers

• What is a labour victory? I maintain that it is a twofold thing. Workers must gain economic advantage, but they must also gain revolutionary spirit, in order to achieve a complete victory. For workers to gain a few cents more a day, a few minutes less a day, and go back to work with the same psychology, the same attitude toward society is to achieve a temporary gain and not a lasting victory.

  

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
  • Attitude
  • Victory
  • Psychology

• Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Men
  • Workers
  • Reaping

• We might be workers, but we are not happy go-lucky jungle bunnies.

  

  Slick Rick
  • Lucky
  • Jungle
  • Bunnies

• The resettlement of populations scattered by war and by enemy occupation is one of the problems with which Europe will be most urgently faced when the occupied countries are set free. Since hostilities began, millions of people have left homes destroyed or threatened with destruction; millions more have been transplanted, deported, or expelled to make room for foreign newcomers who have taken over their property; millions of others again have been taken prisoner or individually recruited as workers and sent away from their countries to serve the occupying power.

  

  Eugene M. Kulischer
  • Enemy
  • Problems
  • Destroyed

• Fast food also has a uniquely difficult business structure for workers to achieve better wages and working conditions.

  

  David Rolf
  • Difficult
  • Achieve
  • Conditions

• We should be trying to reach the young workers because that's when you're most idealistic and have least fear.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Fear
  • Workers
  • Idealistic

• Virtually every company will be going out and empowering their workers with a certain set of tools, and the big difference in how much value is received from that will be how much the company steps back and really thinks through their business processes, thinking through how their business can change, how their project management, their customer feedback, their planning cycles can be quite different than they ever were before.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Company
  • Empowering
  • Tools

• Existing social conditions favour the production of an infinite number of acts of violence and there has been no hesitation in urging the workers not to refrain from brutality when this might do them service.

  

  Georges Sorel
  • Service
  • Workers
  • Brutality

• There's an unexpectedly high share of workers still in agriculture, .. That's like a fault line.

  

  Edward Taylor
  • Fault
  • Workers
  • Agriculture

• My biggest fear is that we Unilever company at one point in time will not be able to attract the best and brightest workers. I don't worry so much about the business, the strategy. If we can continue to attract the best, I know they will ultimately figure out how to run the company in a very tough environment.

  

  Paul Polman
  • Fear
  • Strategy
  • Enviroment

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