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Quotes About Employment

Tens of millions of Americans are modern-day slaves - unable to retire early, or working in jobs they don't really want, just for the health insurance they need to take care of themselves, a spouse, or a child with a 'preexisting condition.'
~ Paul Zane Pilzer
While there have been news reports of recent college graduates living with their parents because they have been unable to find a job paying a salary sufficient to move out, their near and long-term career prospects remain far brighter than for those without a college degree.
~ Elaine Chao
Just getting paid for six months out of the year is unacceptable in any kind of job.
~ Jessica McDonald
Quite honestly, one of the unavoidable considerations in going exclusive with any company is being put on a company's medical insurance program.
~ George Perez
Monetary policy will, as always, respond to the economy's twists and turns so as to promote, as best as we can in an uncertain economic environment, the employment and inflation goals.
~ Janet Yellen
In hard times of severe crisis if you want to create new jobs, I recommend you to start killing some people. It's the old "topos" of war in time of peace.
~ William C. Brown
Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.
~ Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
~ Anton Chekhov
Give a man food, and he can eat for a day. Give a man a job, and he can only eat for 30 minutes on break.
~ Lev L. Spiro
The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.
~ Sun Tzu
The most important tool you have on a resume is language.
~ Jay Samit
Technology has no function except to save labor. Yet how often do we hear that the purpose of new capital formation is to create jobs?
~ Louis O. Kelso
keep looking at me like that," he warned, leaning casually into the counter and sipping his coffee. "see what happens." "i'm going to lose my job over you." "i'd give you another one." i snorted. "as what? your sex slave?" "what a provocative suggestion. let's discuss.
~ Sylvia Day
An unemployed court jester is nobody's fool.
~ Sylvia Fine Kaye
My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.
~ Tahar Ben Jelloun
You could say they got punished for what they did, but when you know the circumstances you can't help feeling sorry." "Mm . . . that's right." "Afterwards Yamagami couldn't make any kind of a living. This is a small place, and the dispute haunted him: wherever he went asking for work, no one would hire him. Up to now he seemed to be managing somehow with the money Yoshi brought in now and then.
~ Takiji Kobayashi
It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work -- the night watchman.
~ Tallulah Bankhead
Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'.
~ Tamora Pierce
She hated her job the same way I hated my jobs because she knew she was worth more, but she also hated herself so there wasn't much point in trying to do better.
~ Tawni O'Dell
he knows he has a reward map but has never thought about what it would mean to edit it. "Might be fun editing my reward map," says Polo. "You not able edit your reward map when you working for someone else," says Marco. "You only able do that when you corporation.
~ Ted Chiang
right now your digients, amazing as they are, have no marketable job skills, and you can't predict when they'll get any. How else are you going to raise the money you need?" How many women have asked themselves the same question, Ana wonders. "So it's the oldest profession.
~ Ted Chiang
My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
~ Ted Turner
I would like to know that I was still going to be employed as a woman well into my 60s. In acting terms, a career that spans a lifetime is a very hard thing to achieve, particularly as a woman.
~ Romola Garai
Please spare us the self-pity about how tough it is to look for a job while living with your parents.
~ Bret Stephens