Quotes About Employment

My vision is to hire qualified employees that may have not yet had the opportunity to create a better life for themselves, or did have one but might have came down on hard times and need a hand.

I'm not qualified for anything. I've had lots of little jobs, like picking grapes and being a tax man. I can't imagine not writing, because I've done it since I was five or six. Maybe I'd work in academia. That's always what the plan was.

People can't work and have the quality of life they deserve if they aren't healthy.

I believe that a limited quantity of immigrants, possibly through an Australian-style program on the basis of work qualifications, can be let in.

Quotas are often about quantity and not quality. I think people should get jobs because they are qualified and they can prove they are good at the job.

At The Body Shop we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that.

It's a question of not so much pushing the boys out of the picture, but making the whole frame bigger so that both men and women access the labor market, contribute to the economy, generate growth, have jobs, and so on.

That is why people have jobs and pay checks... it helps keep you from unanswerable questions.

When I was born, the economy wasn't in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick to try and find work.

I've fired quite a few, but I've never had an employee quit on me.

I've always had service-industry jobs, because those were the easiest to quit or take time off from.

Quite frankly, I'm running a campaign on the economy and jobs and economic opportunities for the American people.

If I had to choose Reaganomics or 13 staffers quitting, I think for the average working American, Reaganomics was a much better deal.

I want creators quitting their part-time jobs and being creative for a living.

It's really interesting because I'm a Quaker... so it's been radical to me to be hired by the Department of Defense under contract.

Unless things change radically, President Bush will be the first President since Herbert Hoover to have presided over a net loss of jobs during his administration.

Efficiency, connectivity and productivity are all economic buzzwords that people have said high-speed rail will deliver. But at the heart of it what high-speed rail will deliver is growth and jobs.

I could go back to the railroad. I liked that job.

I had a great job with the railroad, a good salary.

They were both academics, but my dad had to get a job on the railway, and my mum had to get a job in the Post Office. It was pretty hard in terms of the racism they had to endure.

No woman who works full time and plays by the rules should have to raise her family in poverty.

Hiking taxes on businesses hurts workers and raises costs for consumers.

We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.

Obsession with the market seem to prevent ministers looking at the huge problem and all its ramifications in health, education and employment that come from the housing insecurity that too many face.