Quotes About Employment

The purpose of going into business is to get free of a job so you can create jobs for other people.

If your business depends on you, you don't own a business—you have a job. And it's the worst job in the world because you're working for a lunatic! "And, besides, that's not the purpose of going into business. "The purpose of going into business is to get free of a job so you can create jobs for other people.

The purpose of going into business is to get free of a job so you can create jobs for other people. "The purpose of going into business is to expand beyond your existing horizons.

Don't you see? If your business depends on you, you don't own a business—you have a job.

when I ran mortgages, I religiously took people from the back office. At first I did it for moral reasons. But it worked. They appreciated it. They didn't feel like the world owed them a living. They were more loyal.

When, a few months later, Goldman Sachs announced it was setting aside $542,000 per employee for the 2006 bonus pool, he wrote again: "As a former gas station attendant, parking lot attendant, medical resident and current Goldman Sachs screwee, I am offended." In

Guys who can't get a job on Wall Street get a job at Moody's," as one Goldman Sachs trader-turned-hedge fund manager put it.

All these exquisitely schooled, sophisticated people, each and every one of whom feels special, are presented with two mainly horrible ways to earn a living: trawler fishing and aluminum smelting.

One of the distinctive traits about Iceland's disaster, and Wall Street's, is how little women had to do with it. Women worked in the banks, but not in the risk-taking jobs.

After all, the job market is a market.

From the point of view of a smart, talented person trying to decide whether to work for the U.S. government, the single most glaring defect was the absence of an upside. The jobs weren't well paid compared to their equivalents in the private sector. And the only time government employees were recognized was if they screwed up--in which case they often became the wrong kind of famous.

Whenever Thomas Edison was about to hire a new employee, he would invite the applicant over for a bowl of soup. If the person salted his soup before tasting it, Edison would not offer him the job. He did not hire people who had too many assumptions built into their everyday life. Edison wanted people who consistently challenged assumptions.

Sure, I hear about the new freedom that people are enjoying in Eastern Europe. But how do you define freedom? Millions of people in Eastern Europe are now free from employment, free from safe streets, free from health care, free from social security

Simply expanding Medicaid does not improve health care outcomes. In Louisiana, instead we're helping people getting better paying jobs so they can provide for their own health care.

In other restaurants you'll see employees signing to each other, since we also hire many deaf men and women.

It's just as well I can sing as I couldn't do a factory job with all these physical limitations.

I get it, it's a competitive sport and you're competing for jobs every single day.

It is my mission to spend every single day creating a climate where good careers are plentiful - with every Mississippian prepared to pursue them.

As founder of Eventbrite, I've interviewed almost every single person we've hired.

Working men, in particular, face a world they did not expect, jobs are hard to find and pay badly meaning they often can't provide single-handedly for their families, as their fathers and grandfathers did. That alone causes a loss of pride.

Those 3,000 jobs in Sioux Falls, based on our population back then in Sioux Falls, would have taken 300,000 jobs in New York City to equal it at Citibank.

My only after-school job before I got into acting was babysitting. I had younger brothers and sisters.

I was introduced to 7 Charming Sisters at an Emmy Award Show event. When they approached me to become a brand ambassador, I was over the moon about working with the brand. What impressed me even more as a disability advocate is the fact that the company is dedicated to employing people with disabilities.

Air America Radio was thinking of hiring me, but they discovered something in my past that didn't sit well with them: radio experience.