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"I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well when the factory burned down, destroying all our machines - 150 of them. This was very hard on the girls who had paid for their machines."
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"We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass."
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"Regarding quality, the following rule is very important: do each activity right at the first time with the aim of saving money and time. Regardless of the process under consideration, the activities that were carried out badly may cause repetitions with considerable additional costs."
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"The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production."
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"Consumers care less about your brand's vision statement, they want value delivered."
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"Business, to be successful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathematics, not guesswork."
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"I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin."
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"Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person."
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"Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession."
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"Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request."
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"We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?"
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"Our people were very restive, saying that they could not sit under that notice, and that if the National Board did not call them out soon they would go out of themselves."
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"Of course, we knew that this meant an attack on the union. The bosses intended gradually to get rid of us, employing in our place child labor and raw immigrant girls who would work for next to nothing."
Work


"But every time the workers come out in the only way they know to protest against conditions which are unbearable the strong hand of the law is allowed to press down heavily upon us."
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"After I had been working as a cap maker for three years it began to dawn on me that we girls needed an organization. The men had organized already, and had gained some advantages, but the bosses had lost nothing, as they took it out on us."
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"So we must stand together to resist, for we will get what we can take - just that and no more."
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"I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship."
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"We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift."
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"The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with."
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"I read upon the subject and grew more and more interested, and after a time I became a member of the National Board, and had duties and responsibilities that kept me busy after my day's work was done."
Time


"We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting."
People
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