Quotes About Employment

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

Each needs the other: capital cannot do without labor, nor labor without capital.

A man isn't a man until he has to meet a payroll.

To convert an hourly wage to an approximate yearly salary, double the wage and change the decimal to a comma.

After an eight-hour day, workers require three overtime hours to produce two regular hours of results.

China has no income tax, no unemployed and not a single soldier outside its own territory.

Employment... is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery.

Remember this: If you work for a man, in Heaven's name, work for him. If he pays you wages which supply you bread and butter, work for him; speak well of him; stand by the institution he represents. If put to a pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must vilify, condemn and eternally disparage - resign your position, and when you are on the outside, damn to your heart's content, but as long as you are part of the institution do not condemn it.

He is idle that might be better employed.

He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed.

I still have my agent back in Australia keeping an eye on things there, and we are trying to find the right job which will bring me home to shoot.

We live in an age of generational turmoil. Baby-boom parents are accused of clinging on to jobs and houses which they should be freeing up for their children. Twentysomethings who can't afford to leave home and can't get jobs are attacked as aimless and immature.

This idea you're going to take a 50-year-old coal miner and turn them into a software engineer is ridiculous.

Benefit sanctions have been applied in cases where a person has failed to turn up to the jobcentre because they are in hospital following a heart attack. A woman was sanctioned for attending cancer treatment. A man was sanctioned for attending a funeral.

Every American, whether Democrat or Republican, agrees that job creation and affordable energy will be crucial to our economic turnaround.

I hate tenure. Tenure allows teachers to put their feet up on the desk and possibly have a job forever. That's why I got turned on to charter schools. It's a business model. Every employee and every teacher will be monitored by performance.

I've actually been turned down for jobs because I was in Playboy.

You want to be paid. It is your job. It is like anyone else turning up at an office.

It turns out I'm not very good at working with a traditional boss.

It turns out that if you're a 24-year-old whose only line on their resume says CEO, you are totally unemployable.

As the economy turns, one of the most significant impediments to economic growth is going to be labor availability.

I've always worked in cinemas or cafes to make money because it turns out freelance journalism is quite hard to get into.

Aside from a brief stint as a writing tutor during graduate school, I have managed to avoid respectable employment all my adult life.

I am offered work all the time but not for TV series.