You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.
It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.
And my one prayer to God, the miracle worker, was that I would wake up lighter-skinned.
Any team I go to will get an extremely hard worker, someone who never wants to take a day off, loves to play the game and is dedicated to winning.
I kind of try to resist working a lot. I'm not a very disciplined worker.
Leadership comes by the example you set through your work. It begins from the way you are perceived as a worker and the respect that comes with it.
In a nutshell, the ability of American companies to compete in world markets depends on creating conditions in which workers can add sufficient value to justify their higher wages and benefits, much the Japanese auto manufacturers have done in this country. Until unions and mangers understand the necessity of effectively employing the nation's most important resource, the American worker, we are destined to have more Detroits.
Some day some one will write a book about that frantic search of the creative worker for silence and freedom, not only from interruption but from the fear of interruption.
I think of the Catholic worker movement and Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin and others.
I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.
It's a terrible thing to be a worker exploited in the capitalist system. The only worse thing is to be a worker unable to find anyone to exploit you.
I want to make sure that the American worker has an opportunity to see their wages rise and their incomes increase.
Nothing will make me change my principles. Even with the knife at my neck I shall still declare, up to this day, the poor have done everything; it is time for the rich to take their turn. . . The selfish people, the young idlers, must be made useful, whether they like it or not, and some respite be procured for the useful and respectable worker.
Ability for stupendous toil is lodged in every human spirit, a grand gift from the God of nature; but only the persevering worker knows what this latent power is able to achieve.
I am also a hard worker and people are sometimes surprised to see that as well.
I address a strong appeal from my heart that the dignity and safety of the worker always be protected.
We want a system in which the worker shall get what he produces and the capitalist shall produce what he gets.
So, if you're doing good longform with talented people than you can step out and you can be the president or a construction worker and people accept that. It's really the roles you give yourself.
I'm pro-trade, but I'm pro-sensible trade, not pro-trade that is to the disadvantage of the American worker.
A grandmother's special calling is to pray and to be a fellow worker in the battle in which her children or her grandchildren are engaged.