“The whole time I was a union leader, we had to put up with John Howard and Tony Abbott attacking workers' conditions. I'm proud of being a moderate trade union official, working co-operatively between employees and employers. I'm interested in better wages for workers, better safety, job security, and, profitable companies, because I understand that if you get co-operation in the workplace, everyone wins.” IfsWholeJobsWinningCompanyLeaderConditionsSecurityProudSafetyTradeUnionsWorkersOperationsOfficialsEmployeeWorkplaceWagesModeratesEmployersAttackingProfitableTrade UnionsEmployees And Employers Author:Bill Shorten
“When the mass of families in a State are without property, then those who were once citizens become virtually slaves. The more the State steps in to enforce conditions of security and sufficiency; the more it regulates wages, provides compulsory insurance, doctoring, education, and in general takes over the lives of the wage-earners, for the benefit of the companies and men employing the wage-earners, the more is this condition of semi-slavery accentuated.” MenStatesWisdomPoliticsCompanyStepsEconomyConditionsSecurityCitizensBenefitsMassSlaveryPropertySlaveLiberalismWagesSufficiencyCompulsoryEmployingDoctoring Author:Hilaire Belloc
“Food imaginatively and lovingly prepared, and eaten in good company, warms the being with something more than the mere intake of calories. I cannot conceive of cooking for friends or family, under reasonable conditions, as being a chore.” CompanyConditionsCookingMerePreparedReasonableCaloriesChoresGood Company Book:Cross Creek Cookery Source: Cross Creek Cookery
“[On gender-rating by insurance companies:] They say the reason they get to charge more is we have children. I would say having children is a socially useful act. Being female is not a preexisting condition.” ChildrenReasonCompanyConditionsFemaleGenderRatingHaving ChildrenInsurance Companies Author:Gloria Steinem
“We have to recognise, that the gin-palace, like many other evils, although as poisonous, is still a natural outgrowth of our social conditions. The tap-room in many cases is the poor man's only parlour. Many a man takes to beer, not from the love of beer, but from a natural craving for the light, warmth, company, and comfort which is thrown in along with the beer, and which he cannot get excepting by buying beer. Reformers will never get rid of the drink shop until they can outbid it in the subsidiary attractions which it offers to its customers.” MenStillsLightEvilSocialNaturalPoorRoomsCompanyCasesConditionsDrinkComfortOffersCustomersAttractionBeerBuyingShopsThrownWarmthCravingPalacesRecognisePoor ManPoisonousReformersGinSocial Conditions Book:In Darkest England and the Way Out Source: In Darkest England and the Way Out
“In the new conditions created by the global economy, the information revolution and the growth of smart technologies, it is more necessary than ever for all companies to be guided by their rich spiritual inheritance, as spiritual enterprises.” SpiritualGrowthCompanyTechnologyEconomyRichConditionsInformationRevolutionSmartEnterpriseInheritanceGlobal Economy Author:Ted Malloch
“The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.” ChangeCompanyVisionSuccessfulConditionsRemainsCompetitionLandscapeStrategicAlteredSuccessful CompanyStrategic Vision Author:Ralph Abernathy
“My primary motivation for writing is to communicate my perceptions and insights into the human condition, in a way that may provide understanding, comfort, and company to others.” WayWritingHumansMayMotivationUnderstandingCompanyConditionsComfortPerceptionCommunicateInsightPrimariesHuman Condition Author:Vanna Bonta
“The de industrialization of the US. economy based on the migration of corporations into third world areas where labor is very cheap and thus more profitable for these companies creates on the one hand conditions in those countries that encourage people to emigrate to the US. in search of a better life. On the other hand, it creates conditions here that send more black people into the alternative economies, the drug economies, women into economies in sexual services, and sends them into the prison industrial complex.” PeopleWorldCountryHandsBlackCompanyEconomyConditionsDrugAreasLaborThirdsPrisonComplexesAlternativesCorporationsBlack PeopleBetter LifeProfitableThird WorldMigrationIndustrialization Author:Angela Davis
“In the economy we guarantee all market players the same conditions, and the private sector plays an increasingly important role. We are in the process of dissolving thousands of state-owned companies and converting them into stock corporations. We even plan to accelerate this development. In contrast, it is the party's responsibility to improve the lives of the people, and this is where our citizens have great confidence in us. Party members who commit crimes are severely punished.” PeopleImportantStatesPlayProcessPartyResponsibilityCompanyRolesEconomyPlayerPlansConditionsCrimeDevelopmentCitizensMembersCommitCorporationsGuaranteesContrastPrivate SectorConvertingAccelerateDissolvingGreat Confidence Author:Nguyen Minh Triet