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Quotes About Employment

I doubt very seriously whether anyone will hire me.' What do you mean, babe? You a fine boy with a good education.' Employers sense in me a denial of their values.' He rolled over onto his back. 'They fear me. I suspect that they can see that I am forced to function in a century I loathe. This was true even when I worked for the New Orleans Public Library.
~ John Kennedy Toole
It is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish which lies in the way to knowledge.
~ John Locke
What you choose to do in your life, how you choose it, and how you deal with Work-domain difficulties (including being out of work or having to work two jobs to make ends meet) are also revealing of your personality style.
~ John M. Oldham
If we want to deliver opportunity for all, we need an economy that delivers jobs for the future.
~ John Major
between 2007 and 2012 the U.S. workforce gained 387,000 managers while losing almost two million clerical jobs.
~ John Markoff
A monetary economy, we shall find, is essentially one in which changing views about the future are capable of influencing the quantity of employment and not merely its direction.
~ John Maynard Keynes
Obviously consumption-goods, taken as a whole, have in this sense the longest period of production, since of every productive process they constitute the last stage. Thus if the first impulse towards the increase in effective demand comes from an increase in consumption, the initial elasticity of employment will be further below its eventual equilibrium-level than if the impulse comes from an increase in investment. Moreover,
~ John Maynard Keynes
As a general rule, if you're holding down a job it's best to lie low and keep your mouth shut.
~ John McManamy
The problem in today's economy is that people are typically starting a family at the very time they are also supposed to be doing their best work. They are trying to be productive at some of the most stressful times of their lives. What if companies took this unhappy collision of life events seriously? They could offer Gottman's intervention as a benefit for every newly married, or newly pregnant, employee.
~ John Medina
It turned out that they already had enough ESL teachers and what they needed was people to teach high school equivalency math. I wasn't particularly interested in high school math acquisition, but nobody ever said we were put on this earth for our own entertainment.
~ Elif Batuman
Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here.
~ Elizabeth Arden
You're going to get fired by the Synarche before they even really hire you, if you keep up this line of thinking." He laughed his light machine laugh. "This line of thinking is why they want me, Haimey.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Tourism cannot be outsourced." Philippe Maud'hui of ATOUT France made that declaration in his crowded office on the Place de Catalogne, surrounded by stacks of documents and data showing how much tourism contributes to the economy and how. It is so obvious it was startling.
~ Elizabeth Becker
Charity knew she had to begin looking for a job soon. Definitely tomorrow, or the next day. Or perhaps the day after that. Charity didn't believe in procrastination. She just needed to plan her strategy. She was sound asleep on the sofa when Lady Margaret got back from London.
~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
Total economic production in the United States had doubled;* wages rose by 70 percent.
~ Arthur Herman
If business profits rose during the war, labor's wages rose much more—an average of 70 percent.
~ Arthur Herman
Just the Human Genome Project alone is the Full Employment Act for bioethicists.
~ Arthur L Caplan
We recruit for attitude and train for skill
~ Atul Gawande
Anyone who is willing to work and is serious about it will certainly find a job. Only you must not go to the man who tells you this, for he has no job to offer and doesn't know anyone who knows of a vacancy. This is exactly the reason why he gives you such generous advice, out of brotherly love, and to demonstrate how little he knows the world.
~ B. Traven
Anyone who is willing to work and is serious about it will certainly find a job. Only you must not go to the man who tells you this, for he has no job to offer and doesn't know anyone who knows of a vacancy. This is exactly the reason why he gives you such generous advice, out of brotherly love, and to demonstrate how little he knows the world. Dobbs
~ B. Traven
Can the skipper sail his bucket without sailors? Or can the engineer, no matter how clever he is, build a locomotive without workers? Nevertheless, the worker has to stand with his cap in hand and beg for a job. He has to stand there like a dog about to be beaten.
~ B. Traven
We know that a college degree is rapidly becoming the price of admission to the global economy.
~ Evan Bayh
For an actor, to go to work every day is a really rare occurrence. You may work on a film for three months max, and then you're off, so you have to find another job and then work another three months.
~ Boyd Holbrook
Except for teachers, who are 'controlled' as far as his militancy is concerned, good jobs are rare for Negroes.
~ Medgar Evers