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Quotes About Employment

You know, piloting really isn't my hobby. And, it's probably not something I'd do in my spare time if I could do whatever I wanted to do. But, I'll tell you: if you've got to make a living, it's a great way to make a living!
~ Duane G. Carey
We are the only species on the planet without full employment. Brilliant.
~ Paul Hawken
A boy or girl who has gone through the eight grades should possess a complete, practical education and should have received special training in some specific line of work, fitting him or her to earn a livelihood.
~ Arthur Capper
Jobs have to be created on the ground, one at a time. This requires detailed plans and specific policies.
~ Stephen Pagliuca
If someone is a known spectacular quantity, then they're probably working in a job and very happy with that.
~ John Collison
Free speech is against governments, not against the NBA. So the players and coaches and indeed owners have been fined for their speech, which is costly rather than free. I sort of acknowledge that there is not free speech when you agree to work in the NBA.
~ David Stern
If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already.
~ Paul Ryan
If you factor in not just who's doing what at home, but how much more time working fathers are spending on work outside the home, on average they spend two hours more per day outside the home.
~ James Levine
Under the administration of George W. Bush, you will recall, federal spending grew pretty significantly. At the same time, the number of people directly employed by the federal government shrank. One of the factors that explained the difference was contracting.
~ Thomas Frank
Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
After college, I spent a decade working the kinds of jobs that I write about - bartender, shoe salesman, kitchen man - while voraciously reading novels.
~ George Pelecanos
We have free agents getting signed based on having a higher spin rate than another guy. If I can put pine tar on my hand and increase my spin rate 200 RPM and then get a job over another guy who isn't breaking the rules, how is that fair?
~ Trevor Bauer
Once you made that decision to split New Order up, you were like, 'Woo-hoo! I better get out there and get a job.'
~ Peter Hook
Jindal's record in Louisiana is controversial, in part because, in a state which has historically favored patronage culture and a bureaucracy that offered uninterrupted employment for those who backed the right horse, he aimed to destroy the old spoils system.
~ Ben Domenech
There are schoolteachers around the country that work second jobs after their teaching duties are done: one woman in North Dakota I spoke to was heading off to clean houses after the final bell in order to pay her rent.
~ Alissa Quart
You are educated equally to boys. You're expected to go into equal employment with boys. In a marriage, you are legally equal. So, you know, you cannot deny we live in a feminist world.
~ Caitlin Moran
...the influence of the factory upon the physiological and mental state of the workers has been completely neglected.
~ Alexis Carrel
A healthy person that uses medical oxygen to perform their job on a daily basis should expect to eventually become a sick person.
~ Steven Magee, Health Forensics
I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
~ John D. Rockefeller
It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man's thought must always follow his employment.
~ Demosthenes
Society is responsible for its social organization, and if it can't provide the wherewithal for men to be gainfully employed then it should pay the penalty and give them welfare.
~ Pierre Trudeau
A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.
~ John F. Kennedy
By 1985, machines will be capable of doing any work Man can do.
~ Herbert Simon
The only difference between me and a homeless man is this job. I will do whatever it takes to survive…like I did when I was a homeless man.
~ Creed Bratton