KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Leland Stanford Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Leland Stanford

Showing 21-30 of 32 Quotes by Leland Stanford

The right of each individual in any relation to secure to himself the full benefits of his intelligence, his capacity, his industry and skill are among the inalienable inheritances of humanity.

~Leland Stanford

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


There is no reason why the women of the country should not greatly advance themselves.

~Leland Stanford

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed.

~Leland Stanford

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily be rapid, and an unequal distribution of wealth is at once to be observed.

~Leland Stanford

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


In a very alert and bright state of society people learn co-operation by themselves, but in older and quieter conditions of laboring enterprise, such a bill as I propose will point out the way to mutual exertion.

~Leland Stanford

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


In the unrest of the masses I augur great good. It is by their realizing that their condition of life is not what it ought to be that vast improvements may be accomplished.

~Leland Stanford

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none.

~Leland Stanford

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor.

~Leland Stanford

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years.

~Leland Stanford

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The only distribution of wealth which is the product of labor, which will be honest, will come through a more equal distribution of the productive capacity of men.

~Leland Stanford

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: March 9th, 1824

Died: June 21st, 1893

Links

Find Leland Stanford on Amazon

Related Authors

Les Brown
Warren Buffett
Stephen Covey
Peter Drucker
Henry Ford
Bill Gates
Steve Jobs
Jim Rohn

Popular Authors

Saint Teresa Of Avila Calvin Coolidge H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Audre Lorde Barack Obama Henry Rollins Franklin D. Roosevelt Louis Xiv

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1888 - Dale Carnegie

1632 - Baruch Spinoza

1713 - Junipero Serra

1713 - Laurence Sterne

1740 - John Bacon

1784 - Zachary Taylor

1808 - Alphonse Karr

1826 - Carlo Collodi

1864 - Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec

1876 - Ameen Rihani

Birthdays on November 24th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Business Funny Government Men Nature New Year's Peace Technology