Phil Gingrey Quotes

The 35-hour week has from the moment of its inception been a massive mistake. We need to return to people the joy of work.

Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.

America's work ethic is non-stop; it's not even enshrined in law that workers have to get their two weeks holiday money. But Americans work harder than everyone else I can think of.

We must have modern conditions to meet modern machinery. As labor-saving devices are installed and used for production we must necessarily shorten the number of hours per day, and we are now at the state where we will necessarily have to come to a five day week because, gentlemen, you cannot have prosperity unless you have employment.

If I'm going to work for twelve hours a day, I want twelve hours of awesomeness!

People who work 44 hours per week make 50 percent more than people who work 34 hours a week.

If employees need to stay late in order to curry favor with the boss, what motivation do they have to get work done during normal business hours? After all, they can put in the requisite 'face time' whether they are surfing the Internet or analyzing customer data.

The French 35 hour work week is a bribe given to the French people by a grateful government

Japan has a philosophy that the harder we work, the better life will be .... Other countries don't put the same value on work.

Nobody works harder than American workers. We are the hardest working people in the world.

We’ve got to end the 3 day work week.

Eight hours daily labor is enough for any human being

Full employment means not only jobs--but productive jobs. Americans do not regard jobs that pay substandard wages as productive jobs.

We have lost the old love of work.

You know, here in America we only work half a day—12 hours.

I'm the first secretary of labor in the 21st century, and the competitiveness of the American work force and the modernization of decades-old regulations have been among our top priorities.

At the risk of being glib, I would say if you really want to make America great again, you have to make work cool again.

I think all of us want to work and get paid what we are worth.

Americans want to work. We want to take care of our families. It's in our DNA, the American work ethic.

Americans like workers, people who slog. I love working.

I have long been puzzled by the entrenched mentality, and often enforced practice, of longer work hours and less sleep. Innumerable policies exist within the workplace regarding smoking, substance abuse, ethical behaviour, and injury and disease prevention.

I don't work more than 8 hours a day. At times, people get angry with me because of this, but I can't work more than that.

The U.S. is one of the hardest-working cultures in the world.

People want to work, but they don't want to necessarily want to do labour.

Allowing our staff to mix their life with work only makes them more productive and in love with the work that they're doing.