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Quotes About Employment

The job market refined the beauty myth as a way to legitimize employment discrimination against women.
~ Naomi Wolf
How can a woman believe in merit in a reality like this? A job market that rewards her indirectly as if she were selling her body is simply perpetuating the traditional main employment options for women—compulsory marriage or prostitution—more politely and for half the pay.
~ Naomi Wolf
How can woman believe in merit in a reality like this? A job market that rewards her indirectly as if she were selling her body is simply perpetuating the traditional main employment options for women—compulsory marriage or prostitution—more politely and for half the pay.
~ Naomi Wolf
The man who works as carefully and conscientiously when his employer is away as when his eye is upon him, will not long remain in an inferior position. Such integrity in duty, in performing the details of his work, will quickly lead him into the fertile regions of prosperity.
~ Napoleon Hill
It should be recognised as a crime (in reality it is a crime of the worst nature) for any parent to build inferiority complexes in the mind of a child through unnecessary criticism. Employers who understand human nature get the best there is out of people not by criticism but by constructive suggestion. Parents may accomplish the same results with their children. Criticism will plant fear or resentment in the human heart but it will not build love or affection.
~ Napoleon Hill
The critics had a field day writing Carax off in a few lines, advising him not to leave his employment as a pianist
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I smiled as only someone who has spent many hours behind a counter can do.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I'm not against having to work for someone; we're all working for someone really. We here, in this business, have our masters, but we do seem to have a greater amount of freedom allowed us than in some others, and I've always been against the hold one human being has over another, whether it's in employment or in the family.
~ Catherine Cookson
Rosie: I know, I'm working on it but I can't quit until I get another job and that's proving to be rather difficult. Apparently no one really cares about whether or not you work as a secretary in a paper-clip factory. Ruby: Hmm… how odd… And it sounds so glamorous, you would think… Honestly, some people… Ahern, Cecelia (2005-02-01). Love, Rosie (p. 87). Hachette Books. Kindle Edition.
~ Cecelia Ahern
We need to be doing a better job preparing our teens and young adults for employment during their high school and college years. But just as importantly, we need to be educating workplaces, job coaches, corporations, and business leaders about the benefits of hiring a person on the spectrum.
~ Chantal Sicile-Kira
Obviously you've got the aptitude for the job." Gullibility and poor judgment must be prerequisites.
~ Charlaine Harris
If we create enough new companies, there will be additional opportunities for people at every rung of the educational ladder.
~ Andrew Yang
Not many people leave a job where they have fallen short and land another one higher up the ladder. Nice work if you can get it.
~ Robbie Savage
It's really hard to go put mascara on a lady in the mall, and people recognize you and ask you what you're doing there, and all you can think of saying is, 'I'm trying to make a living.'
~ Ivory
First National Bank laid off 1,000 people; where do they go? There are no jobs for them. So we are having serious economic problems in this country. We are in a real economic crisis.
~ Richard M. Daley
Like so many families, we were dealing with limited means. We weren't poor at all, but we had some challenging times financially. When my stepdad got laid off... we were really trying to find our footing for a couple of years.
~ Mahershala Ali
And for myself, I think for the present He is calling me to another land; but how long shall be my abode, or what employment He has for me there, I know not, for I cannot think He is taking me there to live and lurk only.
~ Donald Cargill
Never again should Ghanaians have to resort to dubious means to get to, or live in, foreign lands, simply to make a living.
~ John Agyekum Kufuor
Union membership should not be a condition for employment, and workers should have the freedom to exercise their right to determine how their hard-earned money is spent.
~ Cindy Hyde-Smith
I'm a mercenary. That's what people hire me for, and I don't apologize for it.
~ Michael Avenatti
The largest number of jobs likely to be created by the JOBS Act will be for lawyers needed to clean up the mess that it will create.
~ Steven Rattner
Corporations are not employment agencies, and judging them by that metric is a mistake.
~ Chrystia Freeland
I've closed factories in Mexico and brought those jobs back to the United States. I've closed factories in Canada and brought those jobs back to the United States.
~ Paul Nehlen
For the longest time we looked at the career as a ladder, right, that there was one way up. I want to make sure that in Michigan we think of skills as rock climbing, that there's a different path for everyone. And each has dignity and each has the ability to make a good living here.
~ Gretchen Whitmer