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Quotes About Employment

By the end of the nineteenth century, India was Britain's biggest source of revenue, the world's biggest purchaser of British exports and the source of highly paid employment for British civil servants and soldiers all at India's own expense. We literally paid for our own oppression.
~ Shashi Tharoor
FDR and most of his closest advisers believed that the aim of the New Deal was to save the capitalist system from unreconstructed capitalists. Government regulation, instead of being the enemy of capitalism, was conceived as the means of saving it by promoting employment, decent wages, education, and a cushion against the cyclical swings endemic to capitalism.
~ Sheldon S. Wolin
In secrecy, in silence, a whole race may be destroyed without notice. Whole cultures and species have been destroyed while men smiled and spoke of economics, of employment, of progress, of the welfare of mankind. Is a threat less deadly because it does not scream and rage and threaten force of arms?
~ Sheri S. Tepper
But how can I get enough experience if they don't give me a chance to get experience?
~ Sherman Alexie
Jeez, how stupid was I? What kind of job can a reservation Indian boy get? I was too young to deal blackjack at the casino, there were only about fifteen green grass lawns on the reservation (and none of their owners outsourced the mowing jobs), and the only paper route was owned by a tribal elder named Wally. And he had to deliver only fifty papers, so his job was more like a hobby.
~ Sherman Alexie
I am still looking for a job. They keep telling me I don't have enough experience. But how can I get enough experience if they don't give me a chance to get experience? Oh, well.
~ Sherman Alexie
Yeah, well, he's still on Dark-Hunter payroll, so tell him to keep his phone turned on. (Talon) Ooo. Getting testy in your fierce nakedness. (Kyrian)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life.
~ David Hume
Ultimately, I think the movie's about working as a means of finding meaning in your life. It's about the lesson, the great lesson, of just working, working and being productive.
~ David Krumholtz
If I can get you to a point where you can lead a full life, sustain a job, earn money for your family - you can be completely engaged as a citizen.
~ Newt Gingrich
If I could live in New York the rest of my life, I absolutely would, but it's also prohibitively expensive and you have to be working. New York is a lot nicer when you have a job.
~ Samantha Bee
It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
~ Samantha Bee
Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely gives him comfortable subsistence.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Let your holidays be associated with great public events, and they may be the life of patriotism as well as a source of relaxation and personal employment.
~ Tryon Edwards
Without a job all there is to life is boredom and insecurity.
~ John Lennon
After that demonstration everybody was thinking, what's going to happen to these wonderful men who have been so useful to us? We have to give people something to do with life.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
It was a very good experience. It wasnt just to make a movie, it was my life. I was employed at The Lord of the Rings for a year and a half.
~ Liv Tyler
The pay is good and I can walk to work.
~ John F. Kennedy
We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
At last, in the year 2000, the report of an Independent Council proved it beyond refute that Hillary Clinton was very much a part of the incident and that she had provided factually false information. But as earlier there was insufficient evidence to indict her because of her claim that she hadn't known at that time that the information was false or that it would result in the loss of employment of many people. Filegate
~ John Foster
In 1999, Chad Daybell, now thirty-one, quit his sexton job to become regional sales manager for Access Computer Products. The Colorado-based company, which recycled electronic products, was looking to expand and needed someone to run their new Provo office. For Chad it would mean a big increase in salary from this growing company.
~ John Glatt
Critics should find meaningful work.
~ John Grisham
According to Robert S. McNamara, former president of the World Bank, without firm action to further reduce the population growth rate, world population will not stabilize below eleven billion. "At the national level," states McNamara, "rapid population growth translates into a steadily worsening employment future, massive city growth, pressure on food supplies, degradation of the environment, an increase in the number of 'absolute poor,' and a stimulus to authoritarian government.
~ John Jefferson Davis
Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking.
~ John Kennedy Toole