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Quotes About Employment

First create jobs, and then provide skills to people.
~ Kumar Mangalam Birla
The employer is not going to choose the gang member who's just been released from prison: they're going to choose the person with the skills.
~ Greg Boyle
Our machines increasingly do our work for us. Why doesn't this make our labor redundant and our skills obsolete? Why are there still so many jobs?
~ David Autor
Everyone, young and old, must have access to the knowledge and skills to participate in the evolving economy.
~ James H. Douglas, Jr.
The Bush administration is the most diverse in history because the president fills jobs on the basis of a person's capabilities and qualifications, not on the color of his or her skin.
~ Alphonso Jackson
We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
~ Valentina Zelyaeva
Real holiness has love for its essence, humility for its clothing, the good of others as its employment, and the honor of God as its end.
~ Nathanael Emmons
I love what I do, so I don't mind working.
~ Amos Lee
I love being an actor and a job is a job, and I'm always happy to have a job.
~ Toks Olagundoye
People say get a job doing something you love. So far no one has offered to hire me to eat Whoppers with a switchblade.
~ Greg Behrendt
I love everybody but I don't have to hire everybody.
~ Jeff Henderson
Every now and then I love to invest in a company that may not set the world on fire, but has the chance to establish itself, create jobs and have a positive impact.
~ Mark Cuban
where other conditions are equal, the children of mothers who work because they want to are less likely to be disturbed, have problems in school, or to "lack a sense of personal worth" than housewives' children. The early studies of children of working mothers were done in an era when few married women worked, at day nurseries which served working mothers who were without husbands due to death, divorce or desertion.
~ Betty Friedan
But maybe when he has worked at ShopRite longer, he will like it better. New jobs take getting used to.
~ Beverly Cleary
Only 3 percent of executives, senior-level officials, and managers in the US are Black. Only 4 percent of doctors and 5 percent of attorneys are Black.6 Additionally, a 2016 analysis of federal government data by the Pew Research Center finds that Blacks are, on average, at least twice as likely as Whites to be poor or to be unemployed; in 2014 the median White household income was $71,300 while the median Black household income was $43,300.
~ Beverly Daniel Tatum
From almost nothing, France in four years built up an aircraft industry that employed nearly 200,000 people and produced some 70,000 planes. Britain built 55,000 planes, Germany 48,000, and Italy 20,000 – quite an advance bearing in mind that only a few years earlier the entire world aviation industry consisted of two brothers in a bicycle shop in Ohio.
~ Bill Bryson
The Statute of Artificers of 1563 laid down that all artificers (craftsmen) and laborers "must be and continue at their work, at or before five of the clock in the morning, and continue at work, and not depart, until between seven and eight of the clock at night"—giving an eighty-four-hour workweek.
~ Bill Bryson
When the company was finally broken up in the 1980s to satisfy antitrust regulators, it was worth more than the combined worth of General Electric, General Motors, Ford, IBM, Xerox, and Coca-Cola, and employed a million people.) Bell moved to Washington, D.C., became
~ Bill Bryson
La chose la plus importante à toute vie est le choix d'un métier : le hasard en dispose.
~ Blaise Pascal
if you're a capitalist, you don't buy people—you buy their ability to work.
~ Bob Avakian
He [Ray] was working in a tool-and-die factory in Brooklyn, but before that had drifted around, had been employed at the Studebaker plant in South Bend and also at an Omaha slaughterhouse on the kill floor. Once I asked him what that was like. You ever heard of Auschwitz?
~ Bob Dylan
Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, called JOLTS, conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
~ Bob Woodward
The employment picture was so favorable that the United States would run out of workers soon.
~ Bob Woodward
There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
~ Booker T. Washington