January 12, inaugurate the greatest revolution in the matter of rewards for its workers ever known to the industrial world. "At one stroke it will reduce the hours of labor from nine to eight, and add to every man's pay a share of the profits of the house.

... I will build a motor car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one — and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God's great open spaces.

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Sivu 254 - The way to make automobiles is to make one automobile like another automobile, to make them all alike, to make them come through the factory just alike — just like one pin is like another pin, when it comes from a pin factory, or one match is like another match when it comes from a match factory. Näkyy 80 teoksessa alkaen 1939-2007

Sivu 55 Thinking men know that work is the salvation of the race, morally, physically, socially. Work does more than get us our living: it gets us our life. Näkyy 29 teoksessa alkaen 1926-2006

Sivu 224 - immigrant zone"; that industrial region bounded on the west by the Mississippi and on the south by the Potomac and Ohio rivers. By 1915, the "Y" had about 500 branches operating in this region with 300 of them engaged in educational work for immigrants. Näkyy 15 teoksessa alkaen 1860-2003

Sivu 112 - History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today. Näkyy 107 teoksessa alkaen 1918-2007

Sivu 197 - Without in any way attempting to qualify or modify, by interpretation, the foregoing requirements of the National Industrial Recovery Act, employers in this Industry may exercise their right to select, retain, or advance employees on the basis of individual merit, without regard to their membership or nonmembership in any organization.* SEC. Näkyy 81 teoksessa alkaen 1894-2003

Sivu 70 For all of his populism, he always took a dim view of the average employee. Men worked for two reasons, he said: "One is for wages, and one is for fear of losing their jobs." He thought of labor in the simplest terms — discipline. He once told a journalist named William Richards, "I have a thousand men who if I say 'Be at the northeast corner of the building at four AM' will be there at four AM That's what we want — obedience. Näkyy 11 teoksessa alkaen 1948-2006

Sivu 71 ... business. I built it and, as long as I live, I propose to run it the way I want it run. Mr. Knudsen wanted to run it his way. I woke up one morning to the realization that I was exhausting my energy fighting Mr. Knudsen to get things done the way I wanted them done, instead of fighting the opposition. I let him go, not because he wasn't good, but because he was too good — for me. Näkyy 8 teoksessa alkaen 1946-2003

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