Quotes About Employment

Hire people more for their judgment than for their talents.

I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living

Desperation is the secret to my steady employment. I am not interested in downtime. I really like to keep working all the time and I always feel like I'm in the mail room of life; working up.

I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life.

For myself, I can't understand a life without a job. I don't know what I would do without employment. Retirement is out of the question for me.

All my life, since I was 16, I've been wondering where that next job was gonna come from.

Everyone working 40 hrs a week should have a shot at a decent life.

I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.

When I came out of high school, my objective in life was to get a job selling used cars, but after trying for two weeks, nobody would hire me.

Public-sector employment — another way to be shielded from reality.

Twenty percent of the workforce is already at suboptimal productivity in the current nine-to-five model.

Notice how our economists still act as though replacing human labor with fossil fuel-derived energy is always a good idea, even at a time when unemployment is pandemic and the cost of energy is a rising burden on economies around the world.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

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.

Whereas in the past a worker lived in his or her work, he or she now works in order to live outside his or her work.

Language is evidently one of the principle instruments or helps of thought; and any imperfection in the instrument, or in the mode of employing it, is confessedly liable, still more than in almost any other art, to confuse and impede the process, and destroy all ground of confidence in the result.

lest the habit of work should be broken, and a taste for idleness acquired

The employment of the word Logic to denote the theory of Argumentation, is derived from the Aristotelian, or, as they are commonly termed, the scholastic, logicians.

How many schoolteachers were aware of what they actually were a part of? Surely a number close to zero. In schoolteaching, as in hamburger-flipping, the paycheck is the decisive ingredient. No insult is meant, at bottom this is what realpolitik means. We all have to eat.

Mexico has lost hundreds of thousands of jobs to China. U.S. Department of Commerce data reveal that from 2002 to 2003 Mexico lost market share in thirteen of its top twenty export industries, nearly always to China. With fewer jobs at home, Mexicans are finding it all the more compelling to cross the border into the United States in search of work. No fence is high enough to bar workers desperate to feed their families.

At a national level, the study found that thanks to Wal-Mart the total earnings of retail workers declined by $4.5 billion, with most of these losses concentrated in metropolitan areas.

these women and men were able to sustain work "outside of the employment context," to cobble together not only a better living but a more meaningful life.

Like you, I know people who drink, people who do drugs, and bosses who have tantrums and treat their subordinates like dirt. They all have good jobs. Were they to become homeless, some of them would surely also become 'alcoholics,' 'addicts,' or 'mentally ill.