Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

Care about the product, not about the outcome.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.

If we are focused on making money only, a large slice of life will pass us by.

Forget the cliché that if it’s free, “You are the product.” You are not the product; you are the abandoned carcass. The “product” derives from the surplus that is ripped from your life.

It is too narrow an understanding of production which confines it merely to the making of things. Production includes not merely the making of things, but the bringing of them to the consumer. The merchant or storekeeper is thus as truly a producer as is the manufacturer, or farmer, and his stock or capital is as much devoted to production as is theirs.

Today, to live means merely to produce.

The producer. This is a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

The solution — the only possible one — consists in the producer receiving the full value of his product, or its equivalent. This involves the termination of capitalist production for profit, and the organization of cooperative social production for use.

If production is at the root of capitalist exploitation, to change the mode of production would merely change the mode of exploitation.

Work is done for work’s sake alone, forsaking any higher purpose,

The aim of our efficiency has not been to produce goods, but to harvest dollars... The production of goods was always secondary to the securing of dollars.

The capitalist is not driven by the desire to provide his fellow-men with the necessities of life; he is driven by the necessity of making money.

All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.