Quotes About Employment

We're willing to spend countless dollars putting people who need help in cages, and then when they get out we say you can't have a job, and you can't have housing, and because you don't have either, we're going to take your kids, too.

Employers are as sensitive to housing costs as their employees, which is why, when we build more houses, we create more jobs.

I was a convicted felon. No one wanted to give me a job, I couldn't get any government assistance, and I couldn't get any housing assistance.

You would be amazed how many people call my office looking for work every day.

I couldn't believe I was homeless and working in Harrods. How many people must be going through this in London?

I always ask candidates two things: 'How many times have you been fired?' and, 'Do you watch your clock when it's time to go? Do you look at your phone? Do you look at your watch?'

Think of how much time is spent looking and applying for jobs. Some of those who have read my book on the precariat have told me they have applied for thousands of jobs. This is scarcely leisure; it is work.

Work is at the core of human dignity.

Work is at the heart of human dignity.

I look for people who have drive, who have ambition, who are humble. I've hired many people at very strange places.

The best part of my life is I've been hired to work for the people of the state of Maine, and I'm very humble and very proud.

A guy who gets fired and humiliated in the press can lose a lot of confidence.

Self depreciating humour won't win over an employer; if you're not sure of yourself why should they be?

I've tried to apply for jobs and I've been hung up on because of how I speak.

If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry.

That's the way plants down here work: The Mexicans get the shittiest, most dangerous jobs, and the whites still complain.

The Mexicans get the shittiest, most dangerous jobs, and the whites still complain.

His nametag said Jose. I tried to see if he was missing any fingers. Mexicans don't get cushy box jobs unless they're owed. That's the way plants down here work: The Mexicans get the shittiest, most dangerous jobs, and the whites still complain.

There is no man so insecure as a bottom-level functionary in a sinecure he has held for a long time.

Perhaps to the soldier the civilian is the man who employs him to kill, who includes the guilt of murder in the pay-envelope and escapes responsibility.

he distrusted any man who showed so little sign of employment.

Divorced, they uniformly decried the size of their alimony checks and the injustice of their prenups while refusing to seek gainful employment. Instead

Eventually fired for good, a stay-at-home Shelly brought no benefits to the new household whatsoever. She didn't cook. She didn't clean. All she seemed to like to do was lie around and tell everyone in earshot what they should be doing, though she was never shy about telling others what she deserved, and how they should help her get whatever she wanted.

Stop exporting American jobs. Stop exporting American factories, and stop exporting American sovereignty and independence to global institutions like the World Trade Organization.