Jacques Attali Quotes

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

Nearly all of us work, a lot: many people spend more waking hours working than doing all other things combined. And nearly all of us spend our lifetimes working for someone other than ourselves.

Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.

We're working people, and that's what we like to do, work.

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.

The physical lot of … workers had notably improved, with unemployment insurance, social security, and the new health services, while their children's school education was assured by the government-operated schools: in addition, they had, for intellectual or emotional stimulus and diversion, the radio and the television. But the work itself was no longer as various, as interesting, or as sustaining to the personality...

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

Work is not the curse, but drudgery is.

People want the dignity of work.

We have lost the old love of work.

I think the time has come when the American people understand that federal employees need to work an 8-hour day just like everybody else.

I just want to work.

The best thing for workers is work, not unemployment.

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

I'm lucky I get to work a lot.

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

I was a manual labourer. I figured out really early on that the value of my life could be determined by my hourly rate as a manual labourer digging holes.

I want to work and be happy.

Work is life. Work is opportunity.

I like being employed, you know. That's my favorite kind of acting.

I've never seen someone work for a salary.

Your Irish railways employ thousands of men, whose working hours average twelve per day. Were they restricted to a forty-eight-hour week of labor, employment would he provided for thousands of Irishmen who at present are driven exiles from their native land.

The great question will forever remain, who shall work?