Quotes About Employment

States get to improve transportation infrastructure; that creates economic development, puts people back to work and, most important, enhances safety and improves local communities.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

A man has only so much knowledge as he puts to work.

People will always work harder if they're getting well paid and if they're afraid of losing a job which they know will be hard to equal. As is well known, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

How I wish everyone had decent work! It is essential for human dignity.

I don't see any easy way of disqualifying people on the basis that they decide not to work.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

A business owner can become rich exponentially and people who work for wages become rich incrementally.

If you are not happy in your work, you are a slave.

Don't worry kids, you'll find work. After all, my machine will need strong chess player-programmers. You will be the first.

What kind of moron would go to work for half the amount of money, when they could sit at home and collect what's written in a contract?

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.

Unpaid work never commands respect; it is the paid worker who has brought to the public mind conviction of woman's worth.

I do my podcast on Mondays for a specific reason. A lot of people go to work and don't like their jobs. If you give people something to laugh about, it's good.

Critics should find meaningful work.

I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.

Looking for work sounds almost as bad as finding it.

In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like teaching and computer programming.

The greatest challenge of the next 50 years, I believe, will be to create dignified work for everyone... not through handouts and charity, but through market forces.

I could not work for a long time. I don't spend very much money. Basically I spend money on food and DVDs.

A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted.