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Quotes About Employment

But my enthusiasm was checked by my anxiety, and I appeared rather like one doomed by slavery to toil in the mines, or any other unwholesome trade than an artist occupied by his favorite employment.
~ Mary Shelley
I knew well therefore what would be my father's feelings, but I could not tear my thoughts from my employment, loathsome in itself, but which had taken an irresistible hold of my imagination. I wished, as it were, to procrastinate all that related to my feelings of affection until the great object, which swallowed up every habit of my nature, should be completed.
~ Mary Shelley
In America, roughly 15 per cent of jobs are destroyed every year; and roughly 15 per cent created.
~ Matt Ridley
A recent survey found that 82 per cent of Americans think that over the next thirty years robots and computers will 'probably or definitely do most of the work done by humans' but that only 37 per cent think they will do 'the type of work I do': a big contradiction there.
~ Matt Ridley
Whatever (its) virtues, (the) writing explores the culture of work but marginalizes work itself.
~ Maureen Corrigan
She smiled. I know, this is a place where one employs nothing but aristocrats for the lousiest kinds of jobs. They're all aristocrats, that's true, said Wyatt, because they know that there's no such thing as a lousy job--only lousy men who don't care to do it.
~ Ayn Rand
Anyone else would have taken a job in an
~ Ayn Rand
Any man who's afraid of hiring the best ability he can find, is a cheat who's in a business where he doesn't belong. To me - the foulest man on earth, more contemptible than a criminal, is the employer who rejects men for being too good. That's what I've always thought...
~ Ayn Rand
Any man who's afraid of hiring the best ability he can find, is a cheat who's in a business where he doesn't belong. To me—the foulest man on earth, more contemptible than a criminal, is the employer who rejects men for being too good.
~ Ayn Rand
all work is creative work if done by a thinking mind
~ Ayn Rand
Semakin aku mengenal sistem, semakin aku yakin bahwa reformasi pendidikan adalah satu-satunya solusi bagi remaja bermasalah di luar sana. Tanpa keluarga yang stabil, tanpa prospek mendapatkan pekerjaan bergengsi yang akan membantu keuangan keluarga, pendidikan adalah harapan terbesar mereka.
~ Barack Obama
But they do expect that if they're willing to work, they should be able to find a job that supports a family.
~ Barack Obama
work is essential.
~ Barack Obama
An auto factory that had threatened to close was still open, while a mortgage refinancing was keeping someone out there from losing a home.
~ Barack Obama
work provides independence and income but also because work provides order, structure, dignity, and opportunities for growth in people's lives.
~ Barack Obama
According to a recent poll [...] 94% of Americans agree that people who work fulltime should be able to earn enough to keep their families out of poverty.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
You might discover that, nationwide, America's food banks are experiencing 'a torrent of need which [they] cannot meet' and that, according to a survey conducted by the U.S. Conference of Mayors, 67 percent of the adults requesting emergency food aid are people with jobs.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
This advice comes as a surprise: job searching is not joblessness; it is a job in itself and should be structured to resemble one, right down to the more regrettable features of employment, like having to follow orders--orders which are in this case self-generated.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
Some economists argue that the apparent paradox rests on an illusion: there is no real 'labor shortage,' only a shortage of people willing to work at the wages currently being offered. You might as well talk about a 'Lexus shortage' — which there is, in a sense, for anyone unwilling to pay $40,000 for a car.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
Something is wrong, very wrong, when a single person in good health, a person who in addition possesses a working car, can barely support herself by the sweat of her brow. You don't need a degree in economics to see that wages are too low and rents too high.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
job searching, properly undertaken, should be far more time-consuming than an actual job: "If you have a job, then you might have the luxury of working 9:00 to 5:00. If you're getting a job, then plan on twelve to sixteen hours a day."1
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
67 percent of the adults requesting emergency food aid are people with jobs.22
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
Nearly a third of the American workforce—41.7 million laborers—earn less than $12 an hour, according to a 2016 study.3
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
Por ahora, no puedes sino cambiar tu percepción de la realidad: que de negativa y amarga pase a positiva y afirmadora. Y este fue el gran regalo que le hizo el mundo de la empresa a sus empleados despedidos y a los que se quedaron trabajando el doble: el pensamiento positivo.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich