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Quotes About Employment

Those who are excluded from meaningful work are, by an large, excluded from meaningful play.
~ David Riesman
If there is unemployment in America, it is because the unemployed do not want to work.
~ Henry Ford
Men are vain; but they won't mind women working so long as they get smaller wages for the same job.
~ Irvin S. Cobb
The fact that people who create are good workers tends to be lost.
~ Abraham Maslow
What kind of a society are we going to have if it consists of highly paid people doing high-value-added work - and masses of unemployed?
~ Andy Grove
There is a mass of immigrants, a million of them without work. We will stop this invasion.
~ Antonis Samaras
A day without work is a day without food.
~ Baizhang Huaihai
Since 2010, America has put more people back to work than Europe, Japan, and all advanced economies combined.
~ Barack Obama
no job, no matter how lowly, is truly 'unskilled.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
Two-point-seven percent unemployment equates to -- everybody who wants to work is working. It equates to full employment.
~ Betty Williams
I thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.
~ Biz Stone
But I'm thrilled to be employed, and to work with all my friends and people that I admire. You're just lucky to work - that's the bottom line.
~ Bonnie Hunt
Industry cannot flourish if labor languish.
~ Calvin Coolidge
Remember that work is not a place for self-fulfillment. If it were, you would know it.
~ Corinne Maier
Listen, here it is: Technically, I never quit. I'm seven years late for work.
~ Dave Chappelle
Work-get paid; don't work-don't get paid. Everybody is on commission
~ Dave Ramsey
Actors never retire, they just get less and less work.
~ Desmond Llewelyn
The question was not how to get a job, but how to live by such jobs as I could get.
~ Dorothy Richardson
I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.
~ Ed Asner
I deplored a system that made it more profitable not to work than to work. I wanted to help change all that.
~ Edward Brooke
I just am grateful for every opportunity to go to work. I don't really focus on celebrity status.
~ George Dzundza
I wish my brother would learn a trade, so I would know what kind of work he's out of.
~ Henny Youngman
Every man is better for a period of work under the open sky.
~ Henry Ford
It seemed pathetic and terrible to me and it still does, that men and women work eight hours a day at jobs that bring them no joy, no reward save a few dollars.
~ Hortense Odlum