Quotes About Employment

I used to always work in, like, warehouses, because if my boss gave me a rough time, I could just get on a forklift and just, like, drive away from him.

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

In America, we tax work, investment, employment, savings, and production, while we subsidize non-work, consumption, and debt. It's time we reverse this trend.

I've always believed in God. I remember once a guy asked me what it was like to be self-employed. I said, I'm not self employed. I work for God. The pay is good; He works me hard.

I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.

The NAACP is a wonderful organization . . . But do you realize if tomorrow morning we had complete integration, all them cats would be outta work?

As long as the working-people fold hands and pray the gods in Washington to give them work, so long they will not get it.

I made nepotism an art form, so I get to work with a lot of relatives and they're part of it.

These teenagers [that drop out of school to take the higher wage jobs] take jobs that would go to unskilled adults, making it harder for those adults to make the transition from welfare to work.

If people can't make ends meet at home with food, benefits, health, and health care in particular, how can they be present, engaged, knowledge workers when they come to work?

I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work.

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

People would pay money to work at CNN

And I don't like to work. I only like working when I'm working.

You cannot solve the climate crisis if you are putting people out of work.

For too many, to work means having less income.

Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.

Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic?

America needs jobs and opportunity, not make-work and handouts.

My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed.

[M]ore Americans work for federal, state or local government than work in any form of manufacturing. We crossed that Rubicon about 10 years ago.

If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.

Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguard bad work.

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.