Workmen Quotes - Page 2

• Cuanto más me muevo entre los trabajadores y las fábricas y otras plantas, más me convenzo de que es aconsejable tener como presidente [de una empresa] a un hombre práctico, preferiblemente uno que haya ascendido desde lo más bajo de la escala. He comprobado que los trabajadores respetan mucho más a esos hombres que a los ejecutivos de cuello y corbata que saben poco o nada sobre los diferentes tipos de trabajo que tienen que realizar los trabajadores. Siempre que las circunstancias exijan colocar a un financiero, a un abogado o a un hijo de papá a la cabeza de una gran organización, se le debe nombrar presidente u otro título, pero no presidente.

  B. C. Forbes

  Mudanza, Hijo, Hombres

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• My idea of the real aristocrat is the master workman, no matter what his line of work may be.

  Henry Latham Doherty

  Real, Work, Ideas

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• Mi suerte en la mesa de juego era variada; a veces llevaba entre cincuenta y cien dólares de ventaja, y otras tenía que pedir dinero prestado a mis compañeros de trabajo para pagar el alquiler de mi habitación y mis comidas.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Gambling, Luck, Meals

  James Weldon Johnson (2012). "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man", p.67, Courier Corporation.

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• 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.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Believe, Men, Worst Enemy

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• 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.

  Leland Stanford

  Spurs, Would Be, Reason

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• Music, also, the architect ought to understand so that he may have knowledge of the canonical and mathematical theory, and besides be able to tune ballistae , catapultae, and scorpiones to the proper key. For to the right and left in the beams are the holes in the frames through which the strings of twisted sinew are stretched by means of windlasses and bars, and these strings must not be clamped and made fast until they give the same correct note to the ear of the skilled workman.

  Marco Vitruvio Polio

  Mean, Keys, Giving

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter I, Section 8,

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• The principal, the only, thing a man makes, is his condition of fate. Though commonly he does not know it, nor put up a sign to this effect, "My own destiny made and mended here." (Not yours.) He is a master workman in the business. He works twenty-four hours a day at it, and gets it done. Whatever else he neglects or botches, no man was ever known to neglect this work. A great many pretend to make shoes chiefly, and would scout the idea that they make the hard times which they experience.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fate, Hard Times, Destiny

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Collected Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated): Philosophical and Autobiographical Books, Essays, Poetry, Translations, Biographies & Letters: Walden, Civil Disobedience, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, Slavery in Massachusetts, Walking…”, p.1797, e-artnow

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• The difference between "machines" and "engines" is obviously this, that machines need more workmen and greater power to make them take effect, as for instance ballistae and the beams of presses. Engines, on the other hand, accomplish their purpose at the intelligent touch of a single workman...

  Marco Vitruvio Polio

  Intelligent, Hands, Differences

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book X, Chapter I, Section 3), circa 15 BC.

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• Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Growth, Age

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.69, Penguin

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• No man, however benevolent, liberal, and wise, can use a large fortune so that it will do half as much good in the world as it would if it were divided into moderate sums and in the hands of workmen who had earned it by industry and frugality. The piling up of estates often does great and conspicuous good.... But no man does with accumulated wealth so much good as the same amount would do in many hands.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Sabios, Hombres, Manos

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• The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession; like the honor of a soldier, dearer to him than life.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Work, Soldier

  Thomas Carlyle (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle: Volume 30, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays V”, p.35, Cambridge University Press

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• I believe in the honest craft of workmen.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Believe, Crafts, Honest

  "This I Believe", 1952.

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• Todo obrero sabio aparta de vez en cuando sus herramientas de la obra para afilarlas y afilarlas; así el único sabio Jehová aparta a menudo a sus ministros a la oscuridad, a la soledad y a los problemas, para afilarlos y prepararlos para un trabajo más duro en su servicio.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Sabio, Soledad, Oscuridad

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1874). "Memorias y restos del reverendo Robert Murray M'Cheyne, ministro de la iglesia de San Pedro, Dundee".

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• Where the material is, that's where you go. I'm a workman: I go to work. I've done movies for nothing, literally nothing; I did 'Last I Heard' for next to nothing.

  Paul Sorvino

  Done, Lasts, Next

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• Even the finest workman needs to inspect his work critically.

  Robert Fulghum

  Needs, Finest

  Robert Fulghum (2011). “Maybe (Maybe Not): Second Thoughts from a Secret Life”, p.29, Ballantine Books

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• ¿Por qué, tonto? Es al lector culto al que se le puede engañar. Todas nuestras dificultades vienen con los demás. ¿Cuándo has conocido a un obrero que se crea los periódicos? Da por sentado que todo es propaganda y se salta los artículos principales.Pero el público culto, la gente que lee los semanarios de alto nivel, no necesita reacondicionamiento. Ya están bien. Creen cualquier cosa.

  C. S. Lewis

  Educación, Creer, Gente

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• When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Book, Reading, Inspire

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• We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations [that is, unions or colluding organizations] of masters, though frequently of those of workmen. But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject. Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor above their actual price.

  Adam Smith

  Organization, Ignorant, World

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• Whenever the legislature attempts to regulate differences between masters and their workmen, its counsellors are always the masters. When the regulation, therefore, is in favor of the workmen, it is always just and equitable; but it is sometimes otherwise when in favor of the masters.

  Adam Smith

  Differences, Favors, Regulation

  Adam Smith (2016). “The Wealth of Nations: the Great Master”, p.167, VM eBooks

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• Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it.

  Meg Whitman

  Names, Government, Suffering

  "The Kudlow Report", www.cnbc.com. July 16, 2010.

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• Lo más cercano a todas las cosas es ese poder que moldea su ser. Junto a nosotros se ejecutan constantemente las leyes más grandiosas. Junto a nosotros no está el obrero que hemos contratado, con el que tanto nos gusta hablar, sino el obrero cuya obra somos nosotros.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fashion, Power, Law

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.97, Xist Publishing

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• The disorganisers are those who want to level everything: property, comforts, the price of commodities, the various services rendered to the State... who want the workmen in the camp to receive the salary of the legislator... who want to level even talents, knowledge, the virtues, because they themselves have none of these things.

  Jacques Pierre Brissot

  Knowledge, Equality, Political

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• Por lo tanto, tanto la pobreza como la riqueza repercuten negativamente en la calidad del trabajo y en el propio trabajador. Riqueza y pobreza, respondí. Una produce lujo y ociosidad y pasión por la novedad; la otra, mezquindad y mala mano de obra, y revolución por añadidura.

  Plato

  Passion, Luxury, Political

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• Hay algo en mi alma que no comprendo. Soy prácticamente laborioso - meticuloso, un obrero que ejecuta con perseverancia y trabajo - pero además de esto hay un amor por lo maravilloso, una creencia en lo maravilloso, entrelazada en todos mis proyectos, que me empuja fuera de los caminos comunes de los hombres, incluso hasta el mar salvaje y las regiones no visitadas que estoy a punto de explorar.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Perseverance, Men, Sea

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.18, Wordsworth Editions

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• Amo todo lo que compone un entorno, el rodar de los carruajes y el ruido de los obreros en París, los gritos de mil pájaros en el campo, el movimiento de los barcos sobre las aguas. Amo también el silencio absoluto y profundo y, en resumen, amo todo lo que me rodea, esté donde esté.

  George Sand

  País, París, Profundo

  George Sand (2009). "Las cartas de George Sand y Flaubert: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition", p.201, ReadHowYouWant.com

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