The only reason to have a 300-foot-long boat is because they're bigger than 200-foot-long boats.

The fundamental law of capitalism is: when workers have more money, businesses have more customers, and need more workers. The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.

When businesspeople take credit for creating jobs, it's a little like squirrels taking credit for creating evolution. In fact, it's the other way around.

If it was true that lower taxes for the rich and more wealth to the wealthy leat to job creation, today we would be drowning in jobs.

I was at the forefront of the effort to pass $15 minimum wage in Seattle, and have been collaborating with the people who are trying to make that happen across the country.

Raising the minimum wage allows business people to stop thinking about workers simply as costs to be cut and allows you to start thinking about workers as customers to be cultivated.

The most pro-business thing you can do is to help middle-class people thrive.

Raising the minimum wage a lot across the board would make a big difference. It's not the only thing, but it's an indispensable part of solving the problem.

The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.

Raising the overtime threshold - something that is about to happen. This is more complex so not as many people understand it, but it's equally consequential.

The overtime threshold is to the middle class as the minimum wage is to low-wage workers.

You have carried a branch of tomorrow into the room-its frangrance awakened me.

Passion Has No Paperwork

I just have to do the right thing, and recently I've realized that sometimes the right thing seems crazy to those who don't want change.

Moments – We all are made-up of moments

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

It is one thing to conceive a good plan, and another to execute it

Continents may break up, continents may emerge, but the human race is immortal in its origin and in its growth, and there is nothing to be afraid of, even if the foundations of the earth be moved.

There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.

I just kind of understood it, and I threw my love for others and love for life into the character, and was having a blast. I loved playing Dharma. I loved it!

The life of Liverpool is commerce; it is a city of warehouses and shops.