Workman Quotes

“Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are.”

“Keep encouraging yourself that you are good enough as a workman of God created for every good work one earth prepared for you before the world begun.”

“When a workman is unceasingly and exclusively engaged in the fabrication of one thing, he ultimately does his work with singular dexterity; but, at the same time, he loses the general faculty of applying his mind to the direction of the work. His every day becomes more of adroit and less industrious; so that it may be said of him, that, in proportion as the workman improves, the man is degraded. Alexis de Tocqueville”

“By the work one knows the workman.”

“You can't act like a skunk without someone's getting wind of it.”

“Common sense is in medicine the master workman.”

“The manager cannot share his power with division superintendent or foreman or workman but he can give them opportunities for developing their power.”

“The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.”

“By buying the power of the workman, the capitalist has, therefore, acquired the right to use of make that labouring power during the whole day or week.”