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Quotes About Employment

As an actor you pull your socks up and look for the next job.
~ Ashley Walters
After you leave a show - any show, but for me especially after 'Breaking Bad' - you hope for a job to help soften the blow now that you don't have this amazing job anymore, and you hope that it's good.
~ Betsy Brandt
My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office.
~ Mike Myers
Top notch Indian employers such as Flipkart have hired Udacity Nanodegree graduates based solely on their performance in our programme, without any in-person interview.
~ Sebastian Thrun
My generation's parents told their children, 'Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in the middle class.' But these jobs are now being sent overseas. So in order to make it today, you have to do work that's hard to outsource, hard to automate.
~ Daniel H. Pink
Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.
~ Kathleen Blanco
Employers need to recognize that the world has changed and there are people who would like to help them provide solution in ways that are new, modern and that add value to companies.
~ Andy Stern
America's business leaders, large and small, must be a part of the solution to bridge America's skills gap.
~ Kevin Faulconer
What matters to me is to find rational solutions for those that are facing difficulties so that France preserves jobs and its ability to innovate.
~ Emmanuel Macron
Americans want real solutions and good jobs.
~ John Barrasso
In my real life, hard work, doing my job, working well with others and finding solutions without drama has never gotten me fired before.
~ Kate Gosselin
You cannot solve the economy in this country by creating government jobs.
~ Don Young
I think that one of the things that we have to recognize is that the longer somebody doesn't have a job, the harder it is to get a new job. You know, the reality is that if you're out of job, and you're looking for a job, then the new employer's going to say, 'Well, why, you know, don't you have a job now? What's wrong with you?'
~ Kevin Hassett
I will continue to find ways to help poor people find a job, get a job, and learn someday to own the job.
~ Newt Gingrich
Someday perhaps I'll have to get a grownup job... but for now I'm having too much fun being a reporter.
~ Andrea Mitchell
Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
Management don't really have any problem at all with firing people. It's a powerful idea that, If I'm not happy, I'll quit. I'll try something else!
~ Ron Livingston
We regard the minimum wage rate as one of the most, if not the most, antiblack laws on the statute books. The government first provides schools in which many young people, disproportionately black, are educated so poorly that they do not have the skills that would enable them to get good wages. It then penalizes them a second time by preventing them from offering to work for low wages as a means of inducing employers to give them on-the-job training. All this is in the name of helping the poor.
~ Milton Friedman
I find it amazing that suburban women work at all, but work they must. For a new factor has been added to the old suburban formula; the need for ever-increasing amounts of cash.
~ Nancy Rubin Stuart
Our economy takes endlessly from workers, asking more and more from them in ever-tighter time frames, even as employers offer less and less security and lower wages in return.
~ Naomi Klein
Job creation as part of the corporate mission, particularly the creation of fll time, decently paid, stable jobs, appears to have taken a back seat in many major corporations, regardless of company profits
~ Naomi Klein
losing one's job is much less frightening when getting it seemed an accident in the first place.
~ Naomi Klein
Economist Marvin Harris described women as a literate and docile labor pool, and therefore desirable candidates for the information- and people-processing jobs thrown up by modern service industries. The qualities that best serve employers in such a labor pool's workers are: low self-esteem, a tolerance for dull repetitive tasks, lack of ambition, high conformity, more respect for men (who manage them) than women (who work beside them), and little sense of control over their lives.
~ Naomi Wolf
Economist Marvin Harris described women as a 'literate and docile' labor pool, and 'therefore desirable candidates for the information- and people-processing jobs thrown up by modern service industries.' The qualities that best serve employers in such a labor pool's workers are: low self-esteem, a tolerance for dull repetitive tasks, lack of ambition, high conformity, more respect for men (who manage them) than women (who work beside them), and little sense of control over their lives.
~ Naomi Wolf