(1958 quotes found)
“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
“If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.”
John Cleese
“Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.”
Bo Bennett
“Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose, but their chains. .Workers of the world unite!”
Karl Marx
“The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.”
W. Edwards Deming
“When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.”
“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
“During the whole period of written history, it is not the workers but the robbers who have been in control of the world”
Scott Nearing
“We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the right to choose - and justice belongs to everyone regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation.”
Senator John Kerry
“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