Simon Sinek Quotes

Ten cents a day is adequate pay for a workingman.

I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.

You destroy the initiative of the working people if they don't feel they have a fighting chance to be a part of the American Dream.

What's going on in this country? Unions stand against those trends. We've got to somehow insulate the robust American economy from this global economy that seems to want to devour our standard of living.

America's leaders need to put their feet in the shoes of working Americans.

People who work make the world live better and to reward these people well is normal. Yet they are not the people who are the wealthiest.

I'm not running from the left; I'm running from the bottom. I'm running in fierce advocacy for working-class New Yorkers.

Working class men and women deserve a champion. They're tired of people just telling them what they want to hear to get elected and they don't necessarily follow through.

The truth is that we have got to make America work for working people again.

I stand with the working-class citizens.

Very few restaurant workers could even dream of eating in the restaurants they work in. Many do not make a living wage.

We have to expose Republicans for the frauds that they are when it comes to what they want to do for working men and women.

I've said we need to look at things from the perspective of working people and taxpayers, not from the perspective of government and government officials.

More people work at Walmart than anywhere else in the United States, but you wouldn't know that from our literature. I'm trying to get at the reality of this country by portraying the lives of many of my friends who I left behind in Pittsburgh.

Walmart isn't your average mom-and-pop operation. It's the largest employer in America. As such, it's the trendsetter for millions of other employers of low-wage workers.

My sympathies have always been for working-class people.

Wage theft, worker rights and workplace discrimination should not be swept under the rug. The United States cannot have a functional economy where all the gains go to the corporate class while all the pain goes to regular workers.

Because the truth is, today's immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay, jobs that are just about impossible to fill.

If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.

The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues, and that's not their concern.

True Americanism recognizes the enormous gravity of the social and labor problems which confront us.

The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet.

The inequality of bargaining power between employees who do not possess full freedom of association or actual liberty of contract, and employers who are organized in the corporate or other forms of ownership association substantially burdens and affects the flow of commerce, and tends to aggravate recurrent business depressions, by depressing wage rates and the purchasing power of wage earners.

An industry that can not pay its workers a decent living wage has no right to exist.

If class warfare isn’t the richest of the rich fighting tooth and nail against unions and any tax increases while record numbers of people lose their homes, what is?