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“I encourage employers to permit their workers time off during the lunch hour to attend the noontime services to pray for our land.”

Humor Political Hours Land Praying Workers Permit Lunch Employers Political Humor Time Off

Author:George W. Bush

“No employer is going to hire robustly until they know what the health care cost is going to be.”

Knows Care Cost Health Care Employers Health Care Costs

Author:Lindsey Graham

“Retirement security is often compared to a three-legged stool supported by Social Security, employer-provided pension funds, and private savings.”

Three Social Security Saving Fund Retirement Social Security Employers Savings Pension Stools

Author:Sander Levin

“You cannot create employees without first creating employers.”

Firsts Money Creating Employee Employers

Book:Secretary Jack Kemp Addresses the National Alliance of Business: Getting America and the World Moving Again : Democractic Capitalism in a New Millennium of Freedom : Washington, D.C., October 7, 1991

Source: Secretary Jack Kemp Addresses the National Alliance of Business: Getting America and the World Moving Again : Democractic Capitalism in a New Millennium of Freedom : Washington, D.C., October 7, 1991

“Strike is always a form of direct action. With the strike, too, you are not asking government to make things easier for you by passing legislation, you are taking a direct action against the employer.”

Government Action Form Easier Direct Asking Strikes Passing Passings Legislation Employers Direct Action

Author:Howard Zinn

“If you ask who are the customers of education, the customers of education are the society at large, the employers who hire people, things like that. But ultimately I think the customers are the parents. Not even the students but the parents. The problem that we have in this country is that the customers went away. The customers stopped paying attention to their schools, for the most part.”

People Ifs Thinking Country Problem School Asks Parent Attention Students Customers Pay Attention Employers

Author:Steve Jobs

“Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.”

Men Believe Mother Can Do Challenges Convince Employers Legislators

Author:Karen DeCrow

“Employers should not be able to impose their religious beliefs on female employees, ignoring their individual health decisions and denying their right to reproductive care. Bosses belong in the boardroom, not in the bedroom.”

Should Care Able Individual Belief Religious Decision Female Employee Boss Bedroom Employers Religious Belief Reproductive Health

Author:Dina Titus

“Black employers are just as negative as the white employers concerning inner-city workers.”

Black White Cities Negative Workers Employers Inner City

Author:William Julius Wilson

“Even though there is rampant unemployment in many parts of the world, there are still large numbers of jobs that are going unfilled because employers are having a hard time identifying people with the right set of skills.”

People World Stills Hard Jobs Numbers Skills Hard Times Unemployment Employers Large Numbers Identifying Having A Hard Time

Author:Daphne Koller

“Every person has got the right to speak in public so long as it is their own point of view and it does not reflect badly on their employers, the game or other personalities in the game.”

Persons Long Doe Games Speak Views Personality Point Of View Employers

Author:Gordon Taylor

“We should abolish 'work.' By that I mean abolishing the distinction between work and leisure, one of the greatest mistakes of the last century, one that enables employers to keep workers in lousy jobs by granting them some leisure time.”

Should Mean Jobs Lasts Mistake Century Workers Distinction Leisure Employers Abolish Leisure Time

Author:Theodore Zeldin

“I don't think there are huge divergences between my personality and what they see on TV. And I think that's why I have been gainfully employed doing this. I'll always deliver what an employer wants.”

Thinking Want Has Beens Tvs Huge Personality Employed Employers Divergence

Author:Keith Olbermann

“With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem to accept the shibboleth of an unbridgeable gap between those who hire and those who are employed. We miserably fail to challenge the lie that what is good for management is necessarily bad for labor; that for one side to profit, the other must be depressed. Such distorted doctrine is false and foreign to the American scene where common ideals and purpose permit us a common approach toward the common good.”

“I think it is a wise course for laborers to unite to defend their interests.... I think the employer who declines to deal with organized labor and to recognize it as a proper element in the settlement of wage controversies is behind the times.... Of course, when organized labor permits itself to sympathize with violent methods or undue duress, it is not entitled to our sympathy.”

Thinking Courses Interest Deals Behinds Wise Elements Labor Method Violent Organized Permit Decline Entitled Controversy Employers Settlement Laborers Organized Labor Duress

Author:William Howard Taft

“In our nation there are two classes of nobility: the law-abiding workers and the law-abiding employers who sustain each other.”

Two Law Nations Work Class Workers Nobility Employers Abiding

Author:Cullen Hightower

“The more the specific feelings of being under obligation range themselves under a supreme principle of human dependence the clearer and more fertile will be the realization of the concept, indispensable to all true culture, of service; from the service of God down to the simple social relationship as between employer and employee.”

Humans Feelings Culture Social Simple Principles Concepts Supreme Obligation Realization Range Employee Dependence Indispensable Employers Fertile Social Relationships

Author:Johan Huizinga

“We're getting rid of the D [in PTSD]. PTS is an injury; it's not a disorder. The problem is when you call it a disorder, [veterans] don't think they can be treated. An employer says, 'I don't want to hire somebody with a disorder.”

Thinking Want Problem Reality Community Work Violence Policy Health Strategy Treated Ideology Injury Disorder Disability Veteran Ptsd Employers

Author:George W. Bush

“The history of work has been, in part, the history of the worker's body. Production depended on what the body could accomplish with strength and skill. Techniques that improve output have been driven by a general desire to decrease the pain of labor as well as by employers' intentions to escape dependency upon that knowledge which only the sentient laboring body could provide.”

Source: In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power

“What happens in a strike happens not to one person alone.... It is a crisis with meaning and potency for all and prophetic of a future. The elements in crisis are the same, there is a fermentation that is identical. The elements are these: a body of men, women and children, hungry; an organization of feudal employers out to break the back of unionization; and the government Labor Board sent to "negotiate" between this hunger and this greed.”

Source: Harvest song: collected essays and stories

“The intelligent employer encourages challenge, questioning--not blind acceptance and "our Leader knows best" acclaim.”

Knows Challenges Leadership Leader Acceptance Criticism Intelligent Blind Questioning Employers Acclaim Blind Acceptance

Author:Mary Barnett Gilson

“... until both employers' and workers' groups assume responsibility for chastising their own recalcitrant children, they can vainly bay the moon about "ignorant" and "unfair" public criticism. Moreover, their failure to impose voluntarily upon their own groups codes of decency and honor will result in more and more necessity for government control.”

Children Government Results Responsibility Groups Honor Moon Criticism Management Assuming Workers Ignorant Code Unfair Decency Employers Recalcitrant

Author:Mary Barnett Gilson

“The industrial world would be a more peaceful place if workers were called in as collaborators in the process of establishing standards and defining shop practices, matters which surely affect their interests and well-being fully as much as they affect those of employers and consumers.”

Ifs World Wells Matter Would Be Process Interest Practice Standards Workers Peaceful Well Being Consumers Shops Factories Defining Employers Collaborators Peaceful Places

Author:Mary Barnett Gilson

“I have long been profoundly convinced that in the very nature of things, employers and employees are partners, not enemies; that their interests are common not opposed; that in the long run the success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.”

Long Running Interest Common Enemy Convinced Partners Employee Dependent Long Runs Employers

Author:John D. Rockefeller

“Taking the politics out of setting the minimum wage provides fairness for workers and predictability for businesses. This legislation will also protect the most vulnerable workers and level the playing field for employers who play by the rules. These are the right steps to take; they will make Ontario a better place to work and run a business.”

Play Running Levels Steps Fields Protect Workers Setting Settings Vulnerable Fairness Minimum Legislation Better Place Employers Minimum Wage Playing Fields Predictability Ontario

Author:Kevin Flynn

“As the feudal system retained many of the elements of slavery, modified by the traditions, customs, and practices of the primitive communities, so capitalism retained the essential usurpations of feudalism, though professing to guard personal freedom, and to observe equity between the owner and the occupier of the land, the employer and the employed.”

Community Practice Land Essentials Elements Capitalism Tradition Slavery Owners Customs Primitive Employed Equity Employers Personal Freedom Feudalism Usurpation Feudal System

Author:Joshua K. Ingalls

“My father was a journalist for 50 years in Leeds and Fleet Street. I thought about a career in business to show I could do something different, but the reaction among prospective employers was, shall we say, underwhelming.”

Years Different Shows Father Careers Streets Reactions Journalist Employers Leeds Fleet Street

Author:Lionel Barber

“There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen.”

Reason Would Be Industry Fellows Employers Spurs Workshops Workmen

Author:Leland Stanford

“A man who tries to make the workmen believe that their employers are their natural enemies is indeed the worst enemy of workmen. For the employees of yesterday are the employers of today, and the employees of today can and will partly be the employers of tomorrow.”

Men Trying Believe Today Natural Enemy Worst Tomorrow Yesterday Employee Employers Worst Enemy Workmen Natural Enemies

Author:William J. H. Boetcker

“New Year, the season for changes in positions and advances in salaries, approaches. If you have in your employ some who deserve more salary, do not compel them to go through the unpleasant ordeal of asking a raise, but, rather, voluntarily increase their remuneration. A raise that comes from the boss without asking is worth a lot more than one that has to be gouged out of him. Is it not true that a great many employers who would not dream of overcharging their customers have no qualms whatever about underpaying their employees if the latter will submit without protest?”

“Employers, have you ever stopped to reckon what the goodwill of your workers is worth? ... In most large concerns it would be worth more in dollars and cents to have the goodwill of the working force than of those on the outside. It has been repeatedly demonstrated that the average working force is capable of increasing its production 25% or more whenever the workers fell so inclined. Workers animated by ill will cannot possibly give results equal to those of workers animated by goodwill. The tragic fact appears to be that a tremendous number of working forces are not so animated.”

Giving Has Beens Facts Would Be Force Results Numbers Equal Capable Concern Dollars Workers Average Ill Productions Tragic Cents Employers Animated Goodwill Ill Will

Author:B. C. Forbes

“Many men who do creditable things refuse to let it be known. This is a mistake. While we all admire modesty, nevertheless there is a great national need to do everything possible to bring home to the rank and file of the people that all employers and all wealthy men are not grinding, mercenary, selfish skinflints, but that many of them take delight in doing helpful things for others ... Shortcomings of employers are constantly paraded. Why not let the public become acquainted with the better side which most present-day employers possess?”

People Men Needs Home Sides Mistake Known Delight Refuse Selfish Admire Helpful Wealthy Why Not Modesty Nevertheless Employers Files Shortcomings Present Day Mercenary

Author:B. C. Forbes

“Are soft-hearted people handicapped in business? You have heard a businessman say of someone else, He's all right, but he's too soft-hearted.... To be soft-hearted may be handicapping, in a sense. But on the whole, a soft heart is to be preferred to a hard heart. Hard-hearted, severe, dominating giants sometimes manage to get further and to amass more money. But they get less genuine joy out of life.... It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most to endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.”

“I don't feel myself that I Know it all, but I have enough conceit to be successful. That observation was made by a businessman in his 30s who was making notable headway, although his path bristled with difficulties. Business places no premiums on shrinking violets. Employers prefer men who have self-assurance, forcefulness, go-aheadness, men who know their jobs and know that they know it.”

“Vacations for wage earners have proved both popular with workers and profitable for employers. Unfortunately, the majority of large employers have not yet followed the example set by a number of progressive corporations. I don't know of a single company that has abandoned vacations for wage earners after having tried the experiment. But I do know many that are delighted with the fruits they have gathered. Under some of the plans vacations with pay must be earned by good behavior, punctuality, etc.... The best results have come where the treatment has been regarded as most liberal.”

“Management, in the sense of employer, is merely the agent for the public, the stockholders and the employees. It is management's job to preserve the balance fairly between all these interests, that each may have his fair share without imperiling the continuity of the effort upon which the whole depends.”

May Whole Jobs Interest Effort Share Depends Balance Fairs Management Agents Preserves Employee Employers Continuity Fair Share

Author:James F. Bell, III

“I don't ask employers, for example, to like blacks or Jews or native people; I ask employers to hire the qualified members of thesegroups whether they likethem or not.”

People Asks Example Members Jew Native Employers Qualified

Author:Alan Borovoy

“NELL. Because that's what an employer is going to have doubts about with a lady as I needn't tell you, whether she's got the guts to push through to a closing situation. They think we're too nice. They think we listen to the buyer's doubts. They think we consider his needs and his feelings.”

Thinking Needs Feelings Situation Doubt Nice Guts Dishes Employers Closing Buyers Too Nice

Book:Top Girls

Source: Top Girls

“For heaven's sake, this is 2015. I've run the largest technology company in the world. Let me assure you we know how to build an employer verification system that would work. We can solve this. We just need to do it.”

Knows World Needs Running Heaven Company Technology Know How Let Me Sake Solve Employers Verification

Author:John Kasich

“If you have free universal health care and free education supported by public school taxes, then you have more bargaining power with your bosses, but if everything is privatized, and ordinary Americans have to pay for everything through their wages, then they're at the mercy of their employers. If the workers know they'll be ruined if they lost their jobs, they're not going to be uppity. You want to break their spirit.”

“The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.”

Way Communicate Cents Employers

Author:Kate Reardon

“I would prefer to use a very inclusive definition of the working class. I'd like to include all of those people who are, if they're not exploited by an immediate employer over them, they're exploited by the system and therefore have a cause to want to change the system. Having a very inclusive definition of the working class creates a great opportunity for organizing people.”

People Ifs Want Use Opportunity Causes Class Definitions Working Class Employers Great Opportunity

Author:Howard Zinn

“60% of workers surveyed said if their employer took action to support the mental wellbeing of all staff, they would feel more loyal, motivated, committed and be likely to recommend their workplace as a good place to work.”

Ifs Feels Said Action Support Workers Committed Motivated Loyal Staff Workplace Employers Wellbeing Good Place

Author:Paul Farmer

“Employers ganging up against workers is like raising an army of elephants against ants.”

Army Workers Labour Elephants Employers Ants Ganging Up

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“I've always quit jobs without telling the employer that I was quitting; I just wouldn't show up one day.”

Shows Jobs One Day Quitting Employers

Author:Kurt Cobain

“There are a lot of little tricks you can do to inject a bit more time into the day. Most important is limiting yourself to a 40 hour week, not working 50 hours or 60 or 70. It's just crazy. It's actually irresponsible to you and irresponsible to your family and friends. Why should your employer's profits be more important than your own family? You're not even going to get any of the profits - all you get is not losing your job. It's a very negative system.”

Should Littles Important Jobs Bits Can Do Hours Week Crazy Losing Negative Profit Tricks Our Family More Time Family And Friends Employers Irresponsible Limiting Yourself

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“My personal view is that nobody should stand between an employer and employee when it comes to employment contract negations. Not the government and not meddlesome third parties. This includes the ability for individuals to bargain collectively with their employers.”

Should Government Individual Ability Views Party Thirds Employment Employee Contracts Employers Bargains Negation Third Parties Personal Views Meddlesome

Author:Mark Noble

“God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings.”

People God Wings Employee Refuge Employers Eagles

Author:John Piper

“It can feel like an invasion of privacy, involving an employer in a personal matter.”

Feels Matter Privacy Employers Invasion Involving Invasion Of Privacy Personal Matter

Author:Frank Murphy

“There was a time when the contractual relationship between the employer and the employee was supposed to be none of the public's business. That time has passed.”

Relationship Supposed To Be Employee Employers

Author:Frank Murphy