Best labor & values Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“What we need is political leadership which can give guidance to the development of global governance. We need business leadership which goes beyond shareholder value to understand the needs and fears of other stakeholders and their communities.”

Needs Giving Political Values Community Development Labor Guidance Governance Shareholders Business Leadership Stakeholder Political Leadership Shareholder Value Decent Work

Author:Juan Somavia

“Whatever he was-that robot in the Garden of Eden, who existed without mind, without values, without labor, without love-he was not man.”

Men Mind Values Garden Labor Robots Eden Without Love Garden Of Eden

Author:John Galt

“The value of assets often increases exponentially while the value of your labor only increases incrementally.”

Values Labor Increase Financial Assets

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.”

Needs Values Grows Class Virtue Rich Exercise Labor Dignity Importance Idle Eloquent Thrift Harps

Author:Oscar Wilde

“The values of commodities are directly as the times of labor employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labor employed.”

Values Labor Productions Productive Commodity Employed

Book:Value, Price and Profit

Source: Value, Price and Profit

“A commodity has a value because it is a crystallization of social labor. The greatness of its value, or its relative value, depends upon the greater or less amount of that social substance contained in it; that is to say, on the relative mass of labor necessary for its production.”

Values Social Greater Greatness Depends Amount Mass Labor Productions Substance Relative Commodity Relative Value

Book:Value, Price and Profit

Source: Value, Price and Profit

“The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently to exploit labor-power to the greatest possible extent.”

Ends Values Amount Labor Aim Productions Motive Capitalist Exploits Surplus

Book:Das Kapital: A Critique of Political Economy

Source: Das Kapital: A Critique of Political Economy

“Marx saw exploitation in terms of the rewards of human labor, but we can see it in terms of all the values of our society.”

Humans Values Term Saws Labor Rewards Our Society Exploitation

Book:The Greening of America

Source: The Greening of America

“It is to labor, and to labor only, that man owes everything possessed of exchangeable value. Labor is the talisman that has raised him from the condition of the savage: that has changed the desert and the forest into cultivated fields; that has covered the earth with cities, and the ocean with ships; that has given us plenty, comfort, and elegance, instead of want, misery, and barbarism.”

Men Want Earth Values Given Cities Conditions Fields Changed Comfort Ocean Labor Misery Raised Forests Ships Plenty Desert Covered Possessed Savages Elegance Barbarism Talismans

Author:John Ramsay McCulloch

“By putting the means of production into the hands of the masses but withholding from those same masses any ownership over the product of their work, Web 2.0 provides an incredibly efficient mechanism to harvest the economic value of the free labor provided by the very, very many and concentrate it into the hands of the very, very few.”

Mean Hands Values Economic Products Mass Labor Productions Mechanism Efficient Ownership Harvest Withholding Economic Value Web 2.0

Author:Nicholas G. Carr

“To the labor of man alone Smith ascribes the power of producing values. This is an error. A more exact analysis demonstrates... that all the values are derived from the operation of labor, or rather from the industry of man, combined with the operation of those agents which nature and capital furnish him.”

Men Values Politics Economy Industry Labor Errors Agents Operations Analysis Liberalism

Author:Jean-Baptiste Say

“Capitalism creates a huge community of producers who are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labor, and an oligarchy that cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized society....the subjugation is not by force but because the privileged class has long ago established a system of values by which the people were thenceforth, to a large extent unconsciously, guided in their social behavior.”

People Long Values Force Social Community Class Huge Behavior Capitalism Labor Fruit Strive Producers Organized Collectives Long Ago Privileged Oligarchy Subjugation Social Behavior

Author:Albert Einstein

“Synthetic Worlds is a surprisingly profound book about the social, political, and economic issues arising from the emergence of vast multiplayer games on the Internet. What Castronova has realized is that these games, where players contribute considerable labor in exchange for things they value, are not merely like real economies, they are real economies, displaying inflation, fraud, Chinese sweatshops, and some surprising in-game innovations.”

“As to a thorough eradication of prostitution, nothing can accomplish that save a complete transvaluation of all accepted values--especially the moral ones--coupled with the abolition of industrial slavery.”

Values Moral Labor Slavery Accomplish Accepted Prostitution Thorough Abolition

Book:Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

“Value is the life-giving power of anything; cost, the quantity of labour required to produce it; its price, the quantity of labourwhich its possessor will take in exchange for it.”

Giving Values Produce Cost Labor Labour Quantity

Book:The Crown of Wild Olive

Source: The Crown of Wild Olive

“Women of a selected class, by the use of slaves and servants have become inactive, the mere recipients of values, no longer creators but "feeding on unearned wealth." This hurts their nature and debases the social fabric. If a woman does no labor in her home which could properly make her self-supporting outside that home she is in duty bound to do something outside her home to justify her claim to support.”

Ifs Doe Self Use Home Values Social Hurt Wealth Class Support Duty Labor Claims Slave Mere Bounds Creator Servant Justify Fabric Feeding Selected

Book:Woman's Share in Social Culture

Source: Woman's Share in Social Culture

“It is only by being exchanged that the products of labor acquire a socially uniform objectivity as values, which is distinct from their sensuously varied objectivity as articles of utility.”

Values Products Labor Acquire Articles Uniforms Utility Objectivity

Author:Juliet B. Schor

“Don't labor forever over the question of how or if you can do it. Studies have shown that the most successful people make decisions rapidly because they are clear on their values and what they really want for their lives.”

People Ifs Want Values Can Do Decision Forever Study Successful Clear Labor Successful People You Can Do It Decisiveness

Book:Awaken The Giant Within

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“Everyone should educate themselves in more wise and responsible consumption; promote personal responsibility, along with the social dimension of rural activities, which are based on perennial values, such as hospitality, solidarity, and the sharing of the toil of labor.”

Should Values Social Responsibility Wise Activity Labor Responsible Dimensions Educate Consumption Consumerism Solidarity Toil Hospitality Personal Responsibility Overconsumption

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“Some professional writers write everyday no matter what and perhaps that's the way it should be done, but it's not the way I do it. If I'm not pregnant with words and I'm not in labor with them, I don't even try to bring them forth because they won't be any good anyway. Once I'm ready to deliver, it's like being pregnant. I've got to find a typewriter or a piece of paper. The only words that have ever had any possible value to others seem to have been those words that just had to come out.”

Ifs Way Should Writing Trying Has Beens Matter Done Seems Values Pieces Ready Paper Labor No Matter What Everyday Pregnant Typewriters Being Pregnant

Author:Marianne Williamson

“Reengineering posits a radical new principle: that the design of work must be based not on hierarchical management and the specialization of labor but on end-to-end processes and the creation of value for the customer.”

Ends Values Process Principles Design Creation Labor Management Customers Radical Specialization

Author:Michael Martin Hammer

“Every time we choose action over ease or labor over rest, we develop an increasing level of self-worth, self-respect and self-confidence. In the final analysis, it is how we feel about ourselves that provides the greatest reward from any activity. It is not what we get that makes us valuable, it is what we become in the process of doing that brings value into our lives. It is activity that converts human dreams into human reality, and that conversion from idea into actuality gives us a personal value that can come from no other source.”

“Most of Marx's predictions have failed to materialize, and his labor theory of value and other ideas have been proven wrong. Marx failed to recognize the incentive system built into the capitalist model - consumer choice and the profit motive of the entrepreneur. The irony is that capitalism, not socialism or Marxism, that has liberated the worker from the chains of poverty, monopoly, war, and oppression, and has better achieved Marx's vision of a millennium of hope, peace, abundance, leisure, and aesthetic expression for the 'full' human being.”

“The key to happiness is not being rich; it's doing something arduous and creating something of value and then being able to reflect on the fruits of your labor.”

Able Values Rich Keys Creating Labor Fruit Being Rich Creating Something Key To Happiness

Author:Arthur C. Brooks

“And if any work that I have done should have value beyond my own lifetime, I believe it will be the happy labors of the decade 1869-1878.”

Ifs Should Believe Done Values I Believe My Own Labor Should Have Lifetime Decades

Author:William Henry Jackson

“Every people, in order to remain healthy and strong, has to have a grasp of its foundation story. Culture is a chrysalis - it is protective, it takes care of you. That's what cultures are for. You cannot rob a people of language, culture, mother, father, the value of their labor - all of that - without doing vast damage to those people.”

People Stories Care Mother Values Order Culture Father Language Strong Healthy Labor Foundation Take Care Damage Protective Language Culture Chrysalis

Author:Randall Robinson

“It's been years, but I still say that I went out with the same progressive values and liberal ideals that I went in with. I made a couple of mistakes, I will honestly admit. In retrospect, there are a few votes I wish I could take back. But, through it all, I kept my support for organized labor, I kept my support for income equality, I kept my support for making sure that kids that come from poor families have access to education. So, yes, I still believe that you don't have to give up your ideals and go along. One person can still stand up and make a difference.”

Giving Believe Kids Values Wish Poor Mistake Support Couple Giving Up Labor Vote Honestly Making A Difference Progressive I Still Believe

Author:Tom Harkin

“We can cooperate more easily with those who more easily intelligible to us, who are more familiar to us. But the advantages of specialization of labor often push us in the direction working with people who have different strengths and viewpoints than we do. I think that this is one major reason why moralities are always subject to change, because some of the people we cooperate with are going to be different from us in ways that often lead them to have different value orientations than we have; and interacting with them can change us.”

People Thinking Different Reason Values Morality Labor Familiar

Author:David Wong

“The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.”

Science Time Values Products Labor Scientist Relation Originals Productions

Author:Karl Marx

“Legislation has been and is still directed towards the protection of wealth, rather than towards the far more important interests of labor on which everything of value to mankind depends.”

Has Beens Stills Important Values Interest Wealth Mankind Depends Labor Protection Legislation

Author:Leland Stanford

“In the struggle between capital and labor, more often than not capital has won, because the real source of value for most companies has historically been the hard assets that they owned and controlled.”

Real Hard Values Company Struggle Source Labor Controlled Assets

Author:James Surowiecki

“The value of a currency is, ultimately, what someone will give you for it - whether in food, fuel, assets, or labor. And that's always and everywhere a subjective decision.”

Giving Values Decision Labor Fuel Assets Currency Subjective

Author:James Surowiecki

“... and we are not alone in this slavery. there are millions of others throughout the world, of all colors and races and creeds. this we must remember. there are many of our people who hate the poor of the white race, and they hate us. the people in this town living by the river who work in the mills. people who are almost as much in need as we are ourselves. this hatred is a great evil, and no good can ever come from it... the injustice of need must bring us all together and not separate us. we must remember that we all make the things of this earth of value because of labor.”

People World Needs Earth Together Remember Values Hate Evil White Poor Race Millions Color Labor Rivers Hatred Towns Slavery Injustice Creeds Not Alone Mills White Race

Book:The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Source: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“If we are going to solve the challenges we face, you need a President who will pursue genuine solutions day in and day out. And that is my commitment to you. We need immigration reform that will secure our borders, and punish employers who exploit immigrant labor; reform that finally brings the 12 million people who are here illegally out of the shadows by requiring them to take steps to become legal citizens. We must assert our values and reconcile our principles as a nation of immigrants and a nation of laws. That is a priority I will pursue from my very first day.”

“There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.”

Values Poor Money Comfort Lows Labor Gold Twenties Arise Silver Pounds Guinea Highs And Lows Intrinsic Value

Author:Bernard de Mandeville

“Labor is the true standard of value.”

Values Work Hard Work Standards Labor

Author:Abraham Lincoln

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