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Next Page »Adam Smith: Labor Wealth
on Saturday, January 9, 2021Adam Smith Money Quote saying It was work that bought the world, not money or precious metals, but labor that bought the wealth of the world. Adam Smith said:
“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” — Adam Smith
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Andrew Yang: Labor 1, Capital 364
on Monday, September 14, 2020Andrew Yang Money Quote saying We celebrate those who create capital for only a single day, while capital gets all the rest of the days. Andrew Yang said:
“Labor got one day. Capital got the other 364” — Andrew Yang
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Labor got one day. Capital got the other 364.
— Andrew Yang🧢🇺🇸 (@AndrewYang) September 15, 2020
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François de La Rochefoucauld: Pain
on Thursday, August 6, 2020François de La Rochefoucauld Money Quote saying hard physical labor distracts the poor with pain to keep them happy somehow. François de La Rochefoucauld said:
“Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor” — François de La Rochefoucauld
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Samuel Johnson: Recompense Labor
on Sunday, August 2, 2020Samuel Johnson Money Quote saying it’s better to pay for work than to give money away for charity. Samuel Johnson said:
“You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity” — Samuel Johnson
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Franklin Jones: Labor Saving Device
on Sunday, March 29, 2020Franklin P. Jones Money Quote saying money is the most effective labor as always. Franklin P. Jones said:
“The most efficient labor-saving device is still money” — Franklin P. Jones
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Catharine Beecher: Working Women
on Tuesday, August 6, 2019Catharine Beecher Money Quote saying women are taken advantage of by business owners when they pay little and profit greatly from the work. Catharine Beecher said:
“Work of all kinds is got from poor women, at prices that will not keep soul and body together, and then the articles thus made are sold for prices that give monstrous prices to the capitalist, who thus grows rich on the hard labor of our sex” — Catharine Beecher
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Abraham Lincoln: Reasonable Wage
on Tuesday, January 1, 2019Abraham Lincoln Money Quote saying in text from the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863 that all slaves were to be free and were encouraged to work for pay. Abraham Lincoln said:
“I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defence; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages” — Abraham Lincoln
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Thomas Jefferson: Common Stock Labor
on Thursday, September 13, 2018Thomas Jefferson Money Quote saying we are given land to labor over to produce food and shelter. Small plots and their owners are important to government. Thomas Jefferson said:
“The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state” — Thomas Jefferson
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