Quotes About Employment

The highest happiness is the feeling of wellbeing which comes to one who is actively employed in doing what he was made to do; carrying out the great life-purpose patterned in his individual bent.

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

H]e had come to work for what the fee could buy, and not for joy of the work itself.

Nadie sabe para quien trabaja.

The companies are multinational--why should labor still stick to borders?

No, I mean I'm sorry that you've inherited such a miserable, collapsing Old Country. A place where rich Bankers own everything, where you've got to be grateful for a part-time job with no benefits and no retirement plan, where the most health insurance you can afford is being careful and hoping you don't get sick, where --

there aren't any 'jobs' left. Just financial engineering and politics. I'm not qualified for either. For one thing, I can't say 'meritocracy' with a straight face.

A 'job creator' is someone who figures out how to threaten you with starvation unless you do something you don't want to do.

They'd only been here for a couple of years, only employed twenty people all told, their two-year tax holiday was ending. Place

the American worker's enemy isn't the Mexican worker, it's the auto manufacturer who screws both of them.

If a paycheck could change your life, do you think they'd let you have one?

it turned out she just made good money working for a law firm that did a lot of western business and didn't mind having a trans girl for a paralegal.

A day unemployed is like a bagel- even when it's bad, it's still pretty good...

United States has become essentially two economies: a first-world economy driven by technicians and their various entourages, and a third-world economy driven by immigrants and, increasingly, the forlorn folks who were formerly our pride, the salt of the earth, the hearty denizens of the American heartland. Americans in name, they have been priced out of the American economy. But from the perspective of techno-economists like

You, and rule!" she said. "You don't rule, don't flatter yourself. You have only got more than your share of the money, and make people work for you for two pounds a week, or threaten them with starvation.

Any man's a fool who lets himself be a wage-earning slave, today.

The point is not: take all thou hast and give to the poor, but use all thou hast to encourage the industry and give work to the poor.

How much better it would be if they weren't so damn understanding--if they kicked me out of the house. To find yourself out in the street with two dollars to your name, to catch the streetcar downtown and get a job, perhaps as an airline stewardess. Think how wonderful it would be to fly to Houston and back three times a week for the next twenty years. You think I'm kidding? I'm not. It would be wonderful.

I used to work at the unemployment office. I hated it, because when they fired me, I had to show up to work anyway.

What figure does the man of letters cut in a country where his employer is the proletariat ?

Advances in science when put to practical use mean more jobs, higher wages, shorter hours, more abundant crops, more leisure for recreation, for study, for learning how to live without the deadening drudgery which has been the burden of the common man for past ages."9

I said, 'My God,' and hired him on the spot," Jobs recalled.

Among the many surprising things about the life of Albert Einstein was the trouble he had getting an academic job.

In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.