"This relationship is the foundation for the argument, made by some trade unionists and labour advocates, that high wages can actually be "good for business". The precedent set by Henry Ford in 1914, who offered workers $5.00 per day (a very high wage at the time) so they could afford to buy the same cars they made, is often invoked."

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Source : "Economics For Everyone". Book by Jim Stanford, 2008.

Jim Stanford

#Car Quotes #Foundation Quotes #Wages Quotes

“Big business has no party and never shall have.”

Source : "Robert Novak: Bush's new salesmen". www.cnn.com. December 13, 2002.
“I treat business a bit like a computer game. I count money as points. I'm doing really well: making lots of money and lots of points.”
“The thing I do at the beginning is a "voice journal," a free form doc that is the character speaking to me. I just work on it until I start to hear different from my own, or the other characters.”

Source : Comment by James Scott Bell on "Five Key Ways to Create a Character’s Distinct Voice", killzoneblog.com. May 15, 2014.
“The inherent preferences of organizations are clarity, certainty and perfection. The inherent nature of human relationships involves ambiguity, uncertainty, and imperfection. How one honors, balances, and integrates the needs of both is the real trick of feedback.”
“I think true success is intrinsic... It's love. It's kindness. It's community.”
“Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. All systems of thought are guiding means; they are not absolute truth.”
“Theory attracts practice as the magnet attracts iron.”
“You may not believe in magic but something very strange is happening at this very moment. Your head has dissolved into thin air and I can see the rhododendrons through your stomach. It's not that you are dead or anything dramatic like that, it is simply that you are fading away and I can't even remember your name.”

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