Quotes About Employment

Brains were no good to a working man; they only made him discontented and saucy and lose his jobs. She'd seen it happen again and again.

the price of labor, like the price of everything else, is governed by the relation of supply to demand.

When two workmen run after one master, wages fall; they rise when two masters run after one workman.

The chain of events begins with the denial of full scale employment and advancement to Black males so that they cannot adequately support themselves, their wives and their children.

As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.

I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.

I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.

Worship leader George Beverly Shea kidded Billy Graham that the latter would be unemployed in Heaven -- while Shea would still have a job leading worship.

Our voices, our service, and our abilities are to be employed, primarily, for the glory of God.

Often volunteer work leads to employment.

The one surefire way to get me not to hire you is to send me your resume, especially if you've already got a good job. I won't be interested, because in a couple years, you'll be doing the same thing to me that you're doing to your current boss: looking for a better deal.

The only thing "free" about so-called free time is that it doesn't cost the boss anything. Free time is mostly devoted to getting ready for work, going to work, returning from work, and recovering from work. Free time is an euphemism for the peculiar way labor as a factor of production not only transports itself at its own expense to and from the workplace but assumes primary responsibility for its own maintenance and repair.

Looking for work sounds almost as bad as finding it.

La principale différence entre le travail et les loisirs est la suivante : au boulot, au moins, l'avachissement et l'aliénation sont rémunérés.

millennials are a median age of twenty-seven. There's seventy-five to eighty million of us. We are now the biggest group of employees in the workforce. There's more of us than boomers or gen X. We're also approaching peak spending years. And so as a foundational part of the economy, millennials are by far the most important group for the next forty years. And so, as a business, that's the group you want to build your audience around.

WORK IS NOT FUN! As the brilliant clinical psychologist Dr. Stan Martindale said, "Once they pay you for something you love doing, they kill it for you.

I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.

It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.

Un trabajo es un sitio donde haces algo que, en el fondo, no te gusta durante unas ocho horas al día cinco o seis días a la semana a cambio de dinero que te permita hacer el fin de semana las cosas que te gustaría hacer todo el tiempo.

There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well.

Most people assumed that the vast majority of destructive trolls harassing people were unemployed losers furiously posting from Mommy's basement, but more often than not, they were educated, employed, financially comfortable enough.

Executives trying to recognize high levels of achievement motivation in their people can look for one last piece of evidence: commitment to the organization. When people love their jobs for the work itself, they often feel committed to the organizations that make that work possible. Committed employees are likely to stay with an organization even when they are pursued by headhunters waving money.

I was actually sacked from my first job. It was at a workshop for a short film this poet had written, about when she used to work in a strip club. After the first week, I was told not to come back.

I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.