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Charles E. Wilson

"Our thinking behind these agreements is that we want all jobs in General Motors to be good jobs."

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Asa Don Brown

"Jobs should be offered on the basis of merit and not 'Seefarish'"

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Asa Don Brown

"We have drastically reduced leakages in the Employment Guarantee scheme and ensured that money reaches those for whom it is intended. We have focused on creating durable assets that benefit the population, rather than the touts."

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Asa Don Brown

"Most people sort of enjoy going to work because of the socialisation, a chance to flirt with co-workers and so on, but actually hate the job they do."

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Asa Don Brown

"The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite."

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Asa Don Brown

"Employment frees man from the nightmare of unemployment, while it chains him to his employer's dream."

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Asa Don Brown

"To some people, employment is a distraction. To all entertainers, distraction is employment."

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Asa Don Brown

"A job is a temporary need."

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Asa Don Brown

"Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States' oil reserves by nearly 50 percent, but it will create thousands of good U.S. jobs."

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Asa Don Brown

"Since President Bush took office, we have lost 3 million more good jobs."

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Asa Don Brown

"Producing fuel cells and solar panels requires high tech facilities and produces high paying jobs. The industry is booming in Arizona. The state already has about 100 firms in the solar industry and has grown 20% since 2003."

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Charles E. Wilson
"That it is logical, fair and reasonable to maintain the purchasing power of an hour's work in terms of goods and services the employee must purchase in his daily living."

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Charles E. Wilson
"For more than 150 years free men in our countries have had the opportunities to educate themselves, choose their own religions, select their own occupations, accumulate capital and invent better ways of doing things."

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Charles E. Wilson
"In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a people ever achieved anywhere in the world. This is why I am so sure that our system of free competition and industrial development is sound and must be preserved."

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Charles E. Wilson
"There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations."

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Charles E. Wilson
"That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization."

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Charles E. Wilson
"Furthermore, the spirit of enterprise which had its first intellectual development in England has especially flourished here as well as throughout all of Canada, while the same spirit has become less virile in the land of its origin."

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Charles E. Wilson
"No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time - but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming."

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Charles E. Wilson
"Unfortunately, in collective bargaining one party or the other too often tries to gain an advantage - a bargain, like buying something in a store for less than it is worth."

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Charles E. Wilson
"Our recent 5-year labour agreements, in Canada as well as the United States, are based upon experience, logic and principle rather than on pressure, propaganda and force."

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Charles E. Wilson
"No one should be so naive as to think that wages among organized groups will not be increased, under pressure if necessary, to make up for increases in the cost-of-living, nor should anyone ordinarily object to such adjustments."

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