
Gardens are not made by singing "Oh, how beautiful," and sitting in the shade.

No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.

The only time it's ever like work is when you don't like what you've done.

I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.

It's better to burn out, then to fade away.

Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.

Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.

Everything in the world is purchased by labor.

Whatever happened to the good ole days, when children worked in factories?

Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.

Work is valued by the social value of the worker.

I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.

Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the globalization of capital.