Quotes About Employment

My highest priority is to make sure we get Americans back to work. And that we have rising incomes again and that we have a deficit reduction program in place that convinces the world that we're on track to having a balanced budget.

As tough as it is for many college graduates to get their planned careers on track, it could be worse: They could be trying to find a job without a college degree.

We know that trade, NAFTA, the free and open trade between Canada and the U.S. creates millions of good jobs on both sides of the border.

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

The Bush Administration and the Congress have to stop ignoring this crisis in international trade. The longer we ignore it, the more American jobs will move overseas. It's just that simple.

If done correctly, strengthening our trade relationship with India will create jobs here in America.

Free trade should not mean free labor.

Privacy is relational. It depends on the audience. You don't want your employer to know you're job hunting. You don't spill all about your love life to your mom or your kids. You don't tell trade secrets to your rivals.

A carbon tax by itself would make driving more expensive, that's very true. But in exchange for that, there are going to be more jobs, more output, more employment, and more products available. So really, as long as you're going to collect the revenues you're going to collect, you're going to have to trade off one tax for the other.

People feel these job-killing trade agreements have really squeezed the middle class and caused lots of people to lose their middle-class status.

Jobs, as such, are a relatively new concept. People may have always worked, but until the advent of the corporation in the early Renaissance, most people just worked for themselves. They made shoes, plucked chickens, or created value in some way for other people, who then traded or paid for those goods and services.

It's time we recognize that going into the trades is just as impressive, and in fact can be just as lucrative, as a 4-year degree.

The marginal people on the trading desks, there's no skill set. If they don't trade derivatives, I don't know what they can do. The next stop is driving a cab.

At the extreme north, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment.

The art critics on some of Britain's newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for life.

I was a caddy. I also worked as a bouncer, selling Christmas trees at Frank's Nursery and before that, selling what they normally sell.

Increasing the minimum wagewill put billions annually into the Social Security trust fund.

He knew how dignity of work meant that a hard day's labor should provide a decent standard of living.

I had no idea Scotland Yard employed novelists these days," said Lord Bancroft coldly. "Of the penny dreadful variety, no less.

I've come across studies that show a fascinating tendency of white-collar workers to inflate their work hours.' This applied particularly to those employed in what she calls 'white-collar sweatshops', the traditionally punishing arenas of finance and tech.

Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.

If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe. [Lat., Qui finem quaeris amoris, (Cedit amor rebus) res age; tutus eris.]

Oh yeah, I'm still employed at Pixar and I love it here.

I'm getting paid to do what I got in trouble for in the 7th grade. I absolutely love what I do and thank my lucky stars for twenty-five years of full-time employment in this business.