Quotes About Employment

My ambition is to sit behind a desk and work.

I started trying to be a writer and failed for years. I tried novels, short stories, sitcoms, movies, plays, anything. And then, to support myself, I had millions of jobs on the fringes of show business.

We always look at the 'Fortune 500,' and we say, men in power, but we don't look at the glass cellar as opposed to the glass ceiling and say, men also are the homeless, men are also the ones that are the garbage collectors. Men are also the ones dying in construction sites that aren't properly supervised for safety hazards.

I finished school in 1981 when there was a recession on so there was not a lot of money around or work. I worked on building sites during that time and there were many people on the dole or always looking for work.

When you see that the head of human resources is sitting in the meeting you've been called into, it's not a good sign.

I was well-dressed and good at firing people because I really did care. I cared about giving them the opportunity to talk through the situation and was always sincere. I would explain that 'This was a bad match,' and they were probably meant to do other things if they weren't giving their all to this, which paid $10 a hour.

The reality is that the economic situation for millennials is not a good one.

Whatever my contract situation is, that will be going on in the background.

Dad worked in the same shop, behind the same counter, five or six days a week, for 38 years, and hated it.

My first job ever was working a ski lift when I was 16. I also worked at a garden center, which I loved. I did that for two and a half years.

We do send regular e-mail alerts to EI claimants to inform them of jobs available in their skill set, in their communities, so they are aware that these jobs exist and it's just a matter of the employers hiring them.

If you develop just one muscle, one skill, make it the ability to focus and just get on with it. It will not only make you desirably employable, but it will make you happy.

There's only one thing I know what to do, so I'm pretty much otherwise unemployable. The idea that you can make a living from exercising your only skill is wonderful. And it's wonderful to be read. It's a really exciting and happy thing to be read.

The dream of Bullfrog is that everybody is employed for their creativity rather than their particular skill.

When there's work to be done in Colorado, for Colorado, we should look to skilled Coloradans first.

Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers.

The ingenuity and creativity of the private sector is essential to meeting American's needs for a skilled work force.

There's a common problem: if a kid is not good at exams, they often think they are not skilled. Yet many of them do have the skills employers are looking for - but often we don't show them that, or teach them how to develop them, or celebrate them.

Running a business and need more skilled workers? If you're not considering apprenticeships, then you're behind the curve.

The way you deal with automation is by upgrading people's skills so they can get the jobs of the future.

Advanced technology changes the way we work and the skills we need, but it also boosts productivity and creates new jobs.

Canada sets aside 36 percent of their visas for people with skills they think their country needs. We set aside six percent. We educate the doctors, and then don't give 'em a green card.

I'm fascinated by the skills gap.

What are we going to do to make sure people get the skills they need if they are incarcerated so that when they are released to hit the ground running? And what are we all going to do to give people who've earned a second chance, a second chance?