More than ten million women march to work every morning side by side with the men. Steadily the importance of women is gaining not... only in the routine tasks of industry but in executive responsibility. I include also the woman who stays at home as the guardian of the welfare of the family. She is a partner in the job and wages. Women constitute a part of our industrial achievement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Avarice, the spur of industry, is so obstinate a passion, and works its way through so many real dangers and difficulties, that it... is not likely to be scared by an imaginary danger, which is so small that it scarcely admits of calculation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. The fortune of our lives there...fore depends on employing well the short period of our youth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. ...I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of i...ndustry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the townlets wither a time and die.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man, robs him of his strength, wit, and versatility, to make a pin- poli...sher, and buckle-maker, or any other specialty; and presently, in a change of industry, whole towns are sacrificed like ant-hills, when cotton takes the place of linen, or railways of turnpikes, or when commons are inclosed by landlords.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What more is necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people? Still one thing more ... Ma wise and frugal government, which sha...ll restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from labor the bread it has earned.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excell...ent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »