Lamar Alexander 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.

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

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

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.

Eight hours daily labor is enough for any human being

As we manage our time I think we shall never get out of employment.

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

When men are employed, they are best contented.

I was barely 16 when I started working. And I worked extensively. But you can work extensively till a point.

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.

I probably get one or two days off every five or six weeks.

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

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 want to work and be happy.

I'll take as much work as I can get. You can always need more work.

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

Work is life. Work is opportunity.

Labor also wants shorter hours and a say in how work shall be done.

For me, Company is still the best way for me to work.

We want to encourage those who are able to work, no question.

Employment, which Galen calls "nature's physician," is so essential to human happiness, that Indolence is justly considered as the mother of Misery.

People want the dignity of work.

Either Men or Women that have a Trade, or are Labourers, can, if industrious, get near three times the Wages they commonly earn in EngIand.