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Caterpillar exported $20 billion of goods in 2011, all by American hands and American workers, to all over the world. In order to do that, we have to create jobs in all those countries that we export to, to be able to sell there.

~Douglas R. Oberhelman

Topics: Able American American Workers Billion Caterpillar Countries Create Export Goods Hands Jobs Order Over Sell Those Workers World

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Inflation was driven by higher labor costs, not higher goods costs. Frankly, I'd love to see a little bit of that. Because I'd love to pay people more. I'd love to see rising wages for everybody.

~Douglas R. Oberhelman

Topics: Because Bit Costs Driven Everybody Frankly Goods Higher Inflation Labor Little Little Bit Love More Pay People Rising See Wages

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Jobs, as such, are a relatively new concept. People may have always worked, but until the advent of the corporation in the early Renaissance, most people just worked for themselves. They made shoes, plucked chickens, or created value in some way for other people, who then traded or paid for those goods and services.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Advent Always Chickens Concept Corporation Created Early Goods Jobs Just Made May Most New Other Paid People Relatively Renaissance Services Shoes Some Themselves Then Those Traded Until Value Way Who Worked

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Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for the benefit of the country.

~Eamon De Valera

Topics: Benefit Britain Countries Country Due Goods Government Import Large Other Other Countries Powers Unemployment Used Which

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While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant.

~Ed Pastor

Topics: American Continue Goods Prices Remain Rise Stagnant Wages While Worker

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Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls.

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: Capital Developing Disappear Goods Innovation Intensive Jobs Labour Make Needed New New Products Producing Products Them

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Use and beauty - these should be the ends of all human effort. But the competitive struggle swings us away from this high ground and plunges us into a quagmire fight for cheap goods and cheap labor.

~Edwin Markham

Topics: Away Beauty Cheap Competitive Effort Ends Fight Goods Ground High High Ground Human Labor Quagmire Should Struggle Swings Us Use

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I know that sometimes it happens that a novelist is embarrassed about their early works. For me, it's the opposite: I believe 'Durable Goods' is the best thing I've written.

~Elizabeth Berg

Topics: About Believe Best Durable Early Embarrassed Goods Happens Know Me Novelist Opposite Sometimes Thing Works Written I Believe

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With 'Durable Goods,' I meant only to write about being an army brat. What emerged was a story about compassion - the need for it, the expression of it.

~Elizabeth Berg

Topics: About Army Being Brat Compassion Durable Emerged Expression Goods Meant Need Only Story Write

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You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.

~Elizabeth Warren

Topics: Because Built Clear Educate Factory Fire Forces Good Goods Hired Market Moved Out Paid Police Rest Roads Safe Us Want Were Workers You Your

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