Quotes About 40 Hour Work Week

#1. I'm suggesting that, until America takes care of its debt, untangles the housing mess and gets unemployment under control, we all commit to working six days a week. Yep, move the standard 35-40 hour work week right up to 48 hours.

Jason Calacanis

#2. Working a 40 hour work week is a very shallow and unfulfilling experience for many people.

Steven Magee

#3. It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

Barack Obama

#4. I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano.

Ethel Merman

#5. I think my idea of retirement might be to one day work a 40-hour week.

Vince McMahon

#6. Doxology can help stabilize theology. It is very difficult to sing bad theology.

Douglas Bond

#7. From the moment we wake up each morning to the time we hit the pillow at night, we hear what people have to say, but are we really listening?

Mac Anderson

#8. Since it is proposed to regard chemical reactions as electrical transactions in which reagents act by reason of a constitutional affinity either for electrons or for atomic nuclei, it is important to be able to recognize which type of reactivity any given reagent exhibits.

Christopher Kelk Ingold

#9. I pranced around the room like a blind moose, but what I lacked in grace I made up for in effort.

Kiera Cass

#10. So, be slow if you must, but let
the heart still play its true part.
Love still as once you loved, deeply
and without patience. Let God and the world
know you are grateful.That the gift has been given.

Mary Oliver

#11. There's so much more to a book than just the reading.

Maurice Sendak

#12. You gotta be crazy to open your windows, invite the demons in.

Ellen Hopkins

#13. There are always far better things ahead than what we will leave behind.

Chris Vonada

#14. The greatest detriment to tomorrow's success, is today's success.

Rick Warren

#15. You see, we capitalists will never actually ask you to work overtime. I don't even track your hours. I just make it clear that I trust you to get your job done in the time allotted. And then I hand you twice as much work as you can reasonably do in a 40-hour week.

Nick Hanauer

#16. I'm a journalist and that's what I do.

Jim Lehrer

#17. What is required as we travel towards full unemployment is not new legislation but a gradual change of mental attitude, a shift in values. As our taste for idling grows, we will refuse to work for old-fashioned bosses who demand a five-day, 40-hour, nine-to-five type week, or worse.

Tom Hodgkinson

#18. Have you seen that magazine Barely Legal? That means when you look at it, you're almost a pedophile.

Dave Attell