Division Of Labour Quotes

#1. The celebrated Adam Smith was the first to point out the immense increase of production, and the superior perfection of products referable to this division of labour.

Jean-Baptiste Say

#2. But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.

G.K. Chesterton

#3. When war becomes a trade, it benefits, like all other trades, from the division of labour.

Jean-Baptiste Say

#4. Nothing tends to materialise man, and to deprive his work of the faintest trace of mind, more than extreme division of labour.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#5. There are some with brains and some without. It makes for a better division of labour.

Bertolt Brecht

#6. Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers.

B.R. Ambedkar

#7. The division of labour, however, so far as it can be introduced, occasions, in every art, a proportionable increase of the productive powers of labour.

Adam Smith

#8. We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name. It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men.

John Ruskin

#9. This is how capitalism enslaves its workers. Through machinery and the division of labour, capitalism greatly increases the productivity of human labour; but this increased productivity does not benefit the producers.

Anonymous

#10. The division of labour was limited by the extent of the market

Adam Smith

#11. As the chosen people bore in their features the sign manual of Jehovah , so the division of labour brands the manufacturing workman as the property of capital .

Karl Marx

#12. Perhaps the most important principle on which the economy of a manufacture depends, is the division of labour amongst the persons who perform the work.

Charles Babbage

#13. This increases the division of labour. This puts more self-employed workers out of business.

Anonymous

#14. In general, if any branch of trade, or any division of labour, be advantageous to the public, the freer and more general the competition, it will always be the more so.

Adam Smith

#15. Once it has been perceived that the division of labour is the essence of society, nothing remains of the antithesis between individual and society. The contradiction between individual principle and social principle disappears.

Ludwig Von Mises

#16. Specialisation encouraged innovation, because it encouraged the investment of time in a tool-making tool. That saved time, and prosperity is simply time saved, which is proportional to the division of labour.

Matt Ridley

#17. The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is anywhere directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.

Adam Smith

#18. I thought I could get to greatness, to my greatness, by plugging on, cleaning up each mess as it came, the way you're taught to eat your greens before you have dessert.

Claire Messud

#19. I will love you all the days of my life and beyond.

Amanda Quick

#20. Social life comes from a double source, the likeness of consciences and the division of social labour.

Emile Durkheim

#21. She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse.

Jonathan Swift

#22. What, did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus dines with Lucullus?

Plutarch

#23. Bang goes another kanga on the bonnet of the van

Kate Bush

#24. Because Christ's life-story tells us about God and His complete work, let us learn the meaning of God's appearance "in the flesh" so that we could know Him better (1 Timothy 3:16).

Tim Liwanag

#25. When you divide the process, you harmonize the product

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#26. Divorce of the intellect from body-labour has made of us the shortest-lived, most resourceless and most exploited nation on earth.(This is about Indians - due to caste division).

Shiva Naipaul

#27. You'll find out that nothing that comes easy is worth a dime. As a matter of fact, I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face. Never.

Woody Hayes

#28. Necessity may not be the opposite of freedom, and perhaps a man is most free when, instead of producing motives, he could only say, I am what I do.

C.S. Lewis