“As a young man, I lived through the Great Depression, when banks failed and so many lost their jobs and homes and went hungry. I was fortunate to have a job at a canning factory that paid 25 cents an hour.” MenHomeJobsYoungLostHoursPaidHungryFortunateYoung ManFactoriesCentsGreat DepressionCanning Author:James E. Faust
“When I was 16 I got a school holiday job at Minton's pottery factory in Staffordshire, packing plates. For a month's work, I was paid £44. Everything I now know about the birds and the bees, I learnt there.” KnowsSchoolJobsMonthsBirdPaidHolidayFactoriesBeesPlatesPackingPottery Author:Anthea Turner
“Beginning in the 1800s with the Industrial Revolution, when women started to go into the formal workforce, leaving working at home to working in factories, countries realized they needed to do something. And they started to pass paid maternity leave.” CountryHomeRevolutionNeededPaidLeavingFactoriesFormalWorkforceIndustrial RevolutionMaternityMaternity Leave Author:Jody Heymann
“I often get the question from people, "well how can you sell luxury at that price?" What I'm explaining to everyone is I'm still paying the same factory cost as I paid when they were $800. I pay the same as my competitors who are in the luxury space pay, I just don't mark them up as much because I haven't put them in a wholesale channel. I don't have to put that extra margin on them.” PeopleWellsStillsSpacePayHavensCostMarkPaidSellsLuxuryExtrasFactoriesCompetitorsExplainingMarginsWholesale Author:Tamara Mellon
“The size of the U.S. middle class has been shrinking. Wages have been stagnant. We don't have those factory jobs that paid a living wage and enabled a family to have a home where the wife did not have to work. But we sent our factories abroad and there is no likelihood of getting them back. Equally worrisome is that some managerial jobs and professional jobs (such as lawyers) which support middle class life are threatened by automation.” Has BeensHomeJobsClassSupportWifeMiddlePaidSizeLawyerMiddle ClassFactoriesThreatenedWagesStagnantLikelihoodShrinkingAutomationLiving WageMiddle Class Life Author:Philip Kotler
“You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.” WantForceClearFireSafePercentBuiltPaidPoliceMovedWorkersGoodsEducateFactoriesSocial ContractPolice ForceOccupy Movement Author:Elizabeth Warren
“Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea, God Bless, keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and paid forward for the next kid who comes along.” LooksIdeasBigsKidsNextSocialBuiltPaidBlessContractsFactoriesTerrificGreat IdeaGod BlessSocial ContractHunk Book:A Fighting Chance Source: A Fighting Chance
“Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” IfsWorldLifeInspirationalMadeDreamEyeStuffWonderThis WorldAdventureTenTravelPaidEnthusiasmFantasticConformityTake MeSecondsFactoriesTime TravelTraveledAdventurousSlothGreat TravelInspiring TravelTravel The WorldTravel AdventureAdventure And TravelSeeing The WorldLife Is An AdventureSolo TravelRoads TraveledLife AdventureAdventure And LifeTravel And TourismNext AdventureChallenging Status QuoWonder Of The WorldRoad LifeWonder Of LifeAdventurous SoulsWorld And LifeMartian ChroniclesFantastic Life Book:Fahrenheit 451 Source: Fahrenheit 451
“Grandfather's been dead all these years, but if you lifted my skull, by God, in the convolutions of my brain you'd find the big ridges of his thumbprint. He touched me. As I said earlier, he was a sculptor. 'I hate a Roman named Status Quo!' he said to me. 'Stuff your eyes with wonder,' he said, 'live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” IfsWorldYearsMadeSaidDreamBigsEyeHateStuffBrainWonderTenI HatePaidFantasticTouchedSecondsFactoriesGrandfatherStatus QuoSkullsSculptorsRidgesThumbprints Book:Fahrenheit 451: A Novel Source: Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
“Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories, in tax-sold farms, and in hordes of hungry people, tramping the streets and seeking jobs in vain. Our workers may never see a tax bill, but they pay. They pay in deductions from wages, in increased cost of what they buy, or - as now - in broad unemployment throughout the land.” PeopleIfsMenMayJobsPayLibertyStreetsLandCostTaxesLaborPaidBillsWorkersSeekingEvery ManHungryVainFarmsSweatFactoriesIdleUnemploymentWagesDeductionsHorde Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt