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Quotes About Employment

Our party's economic policy will be people-oriented. But our government will neither give doles to the poor and unemployed, nor distribute saris. We will give permanent employment.
~ Mayawati
Although labor income is by far the largest component of gross national product, a job is not just a commodity. For many, work is an important reason for living. Even for those who are less fortunate in their allocation of work, being unemployed is a miserable state.
~ Dale T. Mortensen
Our course, then, is clear; if we desire to put an end to pauperism, or to lessen it, we should import everything we can use or sell, in order that we may employ our unemployed hands, in making the goods by which we pay for these imports.
~ Joseph Hume
While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.
~ Jerry Costello
I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.
~ Bobby Knight
Millions of Americans are either underemployed or unemployed.
~ Mario Diaz-Balart
When you're unemployed for six months or a year, it is hard to qualify for a lease, so even the option of relocating to find a job is often off the table.
~ Janet Yellen
Boys are lacking in female skills, dropping out of schools and ending up in jails and unemployed because they lack these skills.
~ Gillian Armstrong
I'm constantly paranoid that I'll be unemployed for the rest of my life... and have to go back folding shirts at the Gap, which you know... you gotta do what you gotta do.
~ Constance Wu
Investment in jobs at a time when millions are unemployed can only be a good thing: all the better if the jobs help us shift from a high-carbon to a low-carbon economy.
~ Sharan Burrow
I definitely have had my down times and also have had my times of being very, very unemployed.
~ Vincent Rodriguez III
I was always about working. I like working. I don't like being unemployed. I love acting.
~ Nicola Walker
Help to Work' always felt like a singularly inappropriate name for a scheme which had the express intention of 'stepping up the pressure' on the long-term unemployed, rather than actually helping them into work.
~ Emily Thornberry
Americans underemployed or unemployed and a President Trump will put them back to work.
~ Jack Kingston
Tim Pigott-Smith once told me to never get off the carousel, i.e., just keep working. It's much harder to get back on and get a job when you're unemployed. But from my own experience, my advice would be keep the faith, be yourself, and don't be afraid to say 'no.' It's the only power we have!
~ Harry Hadden-Paton
With acting, if you audition terribly, at least you know, 'I messed that up. I was horrible. That's why I didn't get the job.' With modeling, it's like, 'I'm not cool this year; therefore, I'm unemployed for a while.' With modeling, it's just, either you're liked, or you're not.
~ Brooklyn Decker
Unemployed people should be treated as potential to be realised, not a problem to be solved.
~ David Lammy
If we discover niche services that have been overlooked in our society, we can create many jobs for the unemployed, retired and young people.
~ Park Won-soon
In fact, black students with college degrees are twice as likely to be unemployed as white students with college degrees. So, to say there there is not an issue for black Americans and Latinos in terms of the opportunity that college is supposed to create would be wrong.
~ Maya Wiley
We Conservatives hate unemployment.
~ Margaret Thatcher
Programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and job retraining help Americans get back on their feet when they are down and out and laid off through no fault of their own.
~ Hank Johnson
Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.
~ Danny Glover
For us, overseas employment addresses two major problems: unemployment and the balance of payments position.
~ Ferdinand Marcos
There's a belief... in the country that we can cure unemployment by creating opportunity. The skills gap proves that opportunity along is not enough to get people employed.
~ Mike Rowe