Quotes About Livelihood

The gig economy isn't taking over, but it has become a useful emblem of what it is like to work for a living in late-stage capitalism.

It would be wrong to say that the city of Berlin is not regulated. What I think is more interesting is to what extent a city creates a sort of safe haven for its users, so that people feel confident that the city works on their behalf.

It gives you great pleasure to know that millions of developers, day to day, make their living using the software that you created.

The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'

I'm a complete and utter busker.

I take my vacation on the combine and tractor.

We must well grow the valuable seeds, which the great Comrade Kim Jong Il sowed to build an economically powerful state and improve the people's livelihood, and lead them to bloom as a glorious reality.

Your prim faith in the True Sect's canon serves naught. The temple preaches a loveless morality that cares not one jot for the plight of our livelihood. The priests are fat parasites, theosophizing on their rumps while folk like us break our backs, milked dry by their tithes and their rote obligations. Where does their doctrine show the least concern for our chance to enjoy the fruits of our happiness?

It is too difficult to think nobly when one only thinks to get a living.

Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.

The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.

People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level.

At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere.

If I did not have my work, I would not have any life.

Cities are for people. A city is where people come to work and raise their families and to spend their money and to walk in the evening. It is not a traffic corridor.

I have done every job in the Theatre apart from wardrobe. I was out of work more times than I was in it.

Some people work for a living and some people twerk for a living.

I've never had to work out of the arts. I've always either been a writer or an editor, or something where I've made my living from doing what I love. You can't get any better than that.

It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters.

I got a cow that went dry and a hen that won't lay, a big stack of bills that gets bigger each day.

The average American salesmen keeps 33 men and women at work - 33 people producing the product he sells . . . and is responsible for the livelihood of 130 people.

There are so many ways of earning a living and most of them are failures.

I don't see myself as a moviemaker only, you know? When I can do a picture, I do. But I don't work like a business, in pictures. I am not obliged to make one picture after the other in order to live.

I'm grateful my teenaged daughter is healthy and well and for the work I do to make a living.