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Quotes About Employment

My dad didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work
~ Norman Tebbit
So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle rejection.
~ Patricia Velasquez
I only work every couple of years. I go into retirement between films.
~ Paul Hogan
Employers must make far-reaching changes to employment terms and conditions for women: Equal pay for equal, decent work.
~ Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
Work is fundamental to the dignity of a person. . . . It gives one the ability to maintain oneself, one's family, to contribute to the growth of one's own nation.
~ Pope Francis
How many young people, how many young people of our Europe, whom we have left empty of ideals, who do not have work... they take drugs, alcohol, or go there to enlist in fundamentalist groups.
~ Pope Francis
I've had a year out of work, more, and just toughed it out. There are those who think that all actors are overpaid. I beg to differ.
~ Richard Griffiths
People who say the system works work for the system.
~ Russell Brand
It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. The fortune of our lives therefore depends on employing well the short period of our youth.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Oh yeah, our first tour in Europe they wouldn't give me the time off from work.
~ Tom Araya
Sexual harassment at work... is it a problem for the self-employed?
~ Victoria Wood
I am actually retired - yes, I am retired. But I like to work. So I'm retired until someone calls me up to work.
~ Vilmos Zsigmond
I only know that all is lost, and that nothing can help me unless I inherit money, strike oil or go to work.
~ Will Cuppy
Most people spend their whole lives looking for the right job. There are others who never get an opportunity to do work that fulfils them.
~ Zhang Ziyi
I don't think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.
~ Katharine Hepburn
There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.
~ Ken Livingstone
Work needs to be the single biggest requirements. No more waivers as this administration has done. There should be real work eligibility.
~ Jeb Bush
Get back to work you slacker or you're fired.
~ Michael O'Leary
It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.
~ Sherrod Brown
Ethics and religion must not stay at home when we go to work.
~ Unknown
I run a business. People want to work for less money, I pay them less money. ... Women shouldn't be so grateful. Know what you're worth. Walk away.
~ Amy Pascal
Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out something about the science of money while I am at it; it is an extraordinarily interesting subject.
~ T. S. Eliot
I have had hundreds of people work for me over the years, and I don't think I ever fired anybody.
~ Tom T. Hall
We want work and we want honest jobs. Our minds and our hands will be our keep!
~ Viktor Yushchenko