Quotes About Employment

So many graduating seniors have this notion that they should be hired because of their creative brilliance. Too many are unhappy with the idea of starting at the bottom. My advice has always been: "You ought to be thrilled you get a job in the mailroom. And when you get there, here's what you do: Be really great at sorting mail.

A century ago 30 percent of the U.S. workforce was employed on farms, with another 30 percent in factories. Both of these figures are now under 3 percent.2 Many of today's job categories, ranging from flight controller to Web designer, simply didn't exist a century ago.

I had a job as a paralegal. I drove a cab.

I worked at Little Caesar's for about two days, bro. I was out. That's the only job I've ever had.

If it were up to me, every job would be somewhere in Canada.

Integrating is easier when you have a job in Canada.

We did not do a good enough job of taking care of the people who were losing their careers and retraining them into the new economy.

I fire very little because I try to be very careful when I select people. If you know how to select, you don't fire often.

I got my transferrable skills from working at entry-level, gauging what I wanted from my career, and making sure I had what it took to get the one I truly wanted. But now there's a Catch 22: school leavers need experience to get jobs, but they can't get experience without jobs.

I'm always cautious about where the next job is going to come from.

We should celebrate make-up. It's a lucrative industry; a massive employer.

Most Americans actually need to have both people working, and it's a luxury and something to celebrate if you can make a choice like this. And this choice isn't for everyone. But it's nice to not have to worry about what time does daycare close.

The government will not support a nine-week work year. That I can say with certainty.

If you are African, the more educated you are, the less chances you have of getting a job.

Jobs are the main channel through which people share in - or are left out of - economic growth.

I'll do something that brings me a check.

At the end of the day, you're loyal to the people writing your checks.

I know CEOs, and they get sick when they have to lay people off, especially around Christmas.

I find in most circumstances, people leave bosses, not companies.

I love just working. I love the idea of being a working class citizen.

When I was 16, I spent a year pushing trollies around a car park, and that wasn't fun. I didn't love working in a supermarket; it wasn't for me. It is for some people, and that's totally cool.

I have an enormously privileged position. I make a lot of money - a matter of public record - I have a huge amount of help, and I'm more in control of the day and what I do than someone working shifts on the checkout, or running the produce department in a supermarket.

I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap.

Our supporters can send the message that it's wrong for politically connected corporations to make millions while people doing an honest day's work are being cheated out of an honest day's pay.