Quotes About Employment

Johnson's decision to employ these particular men was partly motivated by charity. He rotated them as his needs (or theirs) dictated, and offered accommodation to those who could not afford lodgings elsewhere. The amanuenses were his servants, but also his companions—dogsbodies with the status of intimates, hirelings who doubled as friends. Their presence in the background is a reminder

We are all brothers, and yet I live by receiving a salary for arraigning, judging and punishing a thief or a prostitute, whose existence is conditioned by the whole consumption of my life.

We must ensure that every worker has healthcare and is able to save for their retirement. We must ensure that our workers have safe and health working conditions.

You are employed by a suspicious number of douchebags!

I've been working for other people my whole life, and all they do is ignore my ideas. That's if I'm lucky. If I'm not lucky, they ruin my ideas and then make me

Murray observes further that we have entered a peculiar age, an age in which physicians and lawyers are more plentiful than good plumbers.

Computers are Janus-faced, helping to create jobs even as they destroy jobs.

Too many moderately skilled people are chasing too few moderately skilled jobs with a resulting downward pressure on wages.

You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work.

The state of perpetual emptiness is, of course, very good for business. The feasts of consumption sustain the economy, keep up the volume in the stock markets, employ the unemployable, excite the fevers of speculation and stimulate the passion for political and sexual novelty.

Most urgent is the good First Job Program, that Lula plans to implement, which hasn't got off the ground.

Home-health and personal-care work is one of the country's fastest-growing occupational sectors. But it is one marked by low pay and meager benefits, a problem that might become more urgent as the U.S.'s population continues to age.

The industrial revolution allowed us, for the first time, to start replacing human labour with machines.

The best route out of poverty, to avoid food bank usage, is to make sure more people get a job.

Use it or lose it.

We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again.

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, 'Joey, the guy in Olyphant's out of work, it's an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law's out of work, it's a recession. When you're out of work, it's a depression.'

It's a practical matter. If you're useful to others, you'll be hired.

The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.

The young are in great danger. Much evil results from their light and trifling reading. Much time is lost which should be spent in useful employment. Some would even deprive themselves of sleep that they might finish some ridiculous love story.

The gig economy isn't taking over, but it has become a useful emblem of what it is like to work for a living in late-stage capitalism.

College education is the great Filipino dream. But in a world of rapid technological change, getting a job or keeping it depends as much on how well one reasons as how well one uses his hands.

The Adversity Index was created by msnbc.com and Moody's Analytics to track the economic fortunes of states and metro areas. Each month, the Adversity Index uses government data on employment, industrial production, housing starts and home prices to label each area as expanding, at risk of recession, in recession or recovering.

The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'