Bahá’í Quotes

Profit Sharing

Also, every factory that has ten thousand shares will give two thousand shares of these ten thousand to its employees and will write the shares in their names, so that they may have them, and the rest will belong to the capitalists. Then at the end of the month or year whatever they may earn after the expenses and wages are paid, according to the number of shares, should be divided among both.

- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Foundations of World Unity, p. 43

For instance, the owners of properties, mines and factories should share their incomes with their employees and give a fairly certain percentage of their products to their workingmen in order that the employees may receive, beside their wages, some of the general income of the factory so that the employee may strive with his soul in the work.

- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Foundations of World Unity, p. 43

Quote of the Day

Istiqlal 19 Kalimat 183 B.E.

When criticism and harsh words arise within a Bahá’í community there is no remedy except to put the past behind one and persuade all concerned to turn over a new leaf, and, for the sake of God and His Faith, refrain from mentioning the subjects which have led to misunderstanding and inharmony.

Shoghi Effendi – Directives of the Guardian, pp. 17-18