Robin Leach Quotes

Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.

"What would you do with the lazy ones, who would not work?" "No one is lazy. They grow hopeless from the misery of their present existence, and give up. Under our order of things, every man would do the work he liked, and would have as much as his neighbor, so could not be unhappy and discouraged."

The more is given, the less the people will work for themselves

Reducing poverty is in our own interest.

Those who labour in this publick Service, must also be maintained in a proportionable splendour; and must withall have the means to allure men with some kinde of reward, even in this life; forasmuch, as many heretofore followed even Christ himself, but for the Loaves he gave them.

What I am interested in is to help this grand President of ours feed the hungry and clothe the naked and provide work for the idle of every race and creed

I have a reward-and-punishment system: If I have done this much work, then I can play video games this long. It gives my day structure.

Government is promoting bad behavior... Do we really want to subsidize the losers' mortgages? This is America!

I think that we're so generous in some of our social problems that people are unwilling to get a job outside in the heat. Rather than get 15 dollars to go get roofing, they'd rather get 9 or 10 dollars in benefits.

Racists seem obsessed by the idea that illegal workers - the hardest-working, poorest people in America - are somehow getting away with something, sneaking goodies that should be for Americans. You can always avoid this problem by having no social services. This is the refreshing Texas model, and it works a treat.

The benefits cap is right in principle because people don't pay their taxes so that families who could work don't work. People pay their taxes so we support people who really need to be supported.

If the Left really wants to preserve family structure and advance cultural values such as work, why do they oppose reforms to a welfare system that pays teenage girls to have babies out of wedlock and disparage conservative proposals that require able-bodied Americans to work for their welfare benefits like food stamps?

I think it's fair to set limits on housing benefit, so that people on welfare do not end up able to live in better areas than those doing the right thing by finding work.

An Arab who works and pays taxes is good for everyone. An Arab who doesn't work and receives social security stipends is bad for everyone.

No person should live in poverty after a life of hard work.

Just praise is not enough; you've got to get work to survive.

I define myself by my work, so I'd be a sad creature without working. I just wouldn't get up in the morning.

I really like doing good work and working with good people - that's the thing that drives me.

It would be better to incentivise people into work with secure jobs and decent wages, than to try to starve them into submission.

The promise of welfare and welfare regulation mean that there is no incentive to accept jobs that do not meet basic standards.

Ultimately, if you don't have an interest in what you do, it will be so much harder to make money from it.

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

Contract year or not a contract year, I'm playing the exact same way and focused on the exact same things.

Caring makes you want to work harder.

One becomes more interested in a job of work after the first impulse to drop it has been overcome.