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Quotes About Employment

It is of the highest importance to provide equal access to the labour market. Governments should act to establish equitable employment standards and penalise racial discrimination.
~ Tariq Ramadan
The Federal Reserve's objectives of maximum employment and price stability do not, by themselves, ensure a strong pace of economic growth or an improvement in living standards. The most important factor determining living standards is productivity growth, defined as increases in how much can be produced in an hour of work.
~ Janet Yellen
Our country needs people who are maybe a little less focused on themselves and on the flash and a little more focused on how do we actually create a better environment for success for our young people, how do we get people back to work, how do we regain our standing internationally.
~ Rob Portman
The Federal Reserve's monetary policy objective is to foster maximum employment and price stability. In this regard, a key challenge is to assess just how far the economy now stands from the attainment of its maximum employment goal.
~ Janet Yellen
I started out with comedy in college, but had my major in Recreation Administration - which meant I wasn't going to get a real job - so I started doing a little standup.
~ Carlos Alazraqui
I would love to employ a man, but how can I possibly give a man dictation from the bath?
~ Barbara Cartland
I'm a working man in my prime cleaning windows.
~ Van Morrison
As a man, there's a part of me that feels I should still be going out and doing a proper day's work.
~ Ray Winstone
Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.
~ Haruki Murakami
A generation ago there were a thousand men to every opportunity, while today there are a thousand opportunities to every man.
~ Henry Ford II
Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man
~ George Washington
If young men have jobs - or the prospects of jobs - they are less likely to take up arms, they are less likely to join the resistance.
~ Niall Ferguson
Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
Charlie Sheen called his boss on 'Two and a Half Men' a 'Jew ki**' and expected to go back to work. That's crazy. If you could do that and keep your job, then everybody would do it.
~ Anthony Jeselnik
Why is it that two-thirds of white, rural men voted Republican? Why? That's what we have to address. That's crazy. These people are working longer and longer hours.
~ Bernie Sanders
Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.
~ Honore de Balzac
Who owns a man, Durnik?" the blond young man asked sadly. "The one who rules him, or the one who pays him?
~ David Eddings
The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.
~ Owen D. Young
When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies.
~ Alice Hamilton
One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it.
~ Peter Drucker
The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.
~ Plautus
The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.
~ Henry George
Men and women of high professional standing were reduced to the status of vagrants, unable to find employment and forced to eat the bitter bread of public or private charity.
~ Elmer Rice