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Quotes About Employment

I don't really live the bohemian life. I come to work in Midtown everyday, along with all the work-a-day folk.
~ Wade Guyton
Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.
~ Warren Farrell
Technocracy wants to do everything by machinery. Machinery is doing just fine. If it can't kill you, it will put you out of work.
~ Will Rogers
My research clearly reveals that if we want to put inner-city workers to work immediately, we just can't rely on the private sector. They don't want to touch them; they don't want to hire them.
~ William Julius Wilson
What is concerning is that work in the informal sector is characterised by vulnerability, low wages and no rights. So it is not the way that we lift people out of poverty in Africa.
~ Winnie Byanyima
I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.
~ Dean Acheson
My administration will put our coal miners and our steel workers back to work.
~ Donald Trump
There must be 15 shows about people's jobs: 'Ice Road Trucker,' 'Axe Men,' 'Dirty Jobs.' Unemployment is so high, we're watching people work.
~ Dov Davidoff
It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
The kind of job where you come in and work 9 to 5, and where someone tells you what to do all day is becoming scarcer and scarcer.
~ Erik Brynjolfsson
A wedding is the formality a man has to go through before going to work for a new boss.
~ Evan Esar
Formerly when a man worked ten hours a day, it was called economic slavery; nowadays it is called moonlighting.
~ Evan Esar
Usually, when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business.
~ Faith Ford
Never work for a company that says people are its most important asset. If you wanted to get a mortgage and you said that your only asset was people you would end up living in a tent.
~ Guy Browning
My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
~ Iain Duncan Smith
The work my mum does, a lot of it is re-housing homeless people, that's a real job. I play make-believe and dressing up for a living!
~ Jeremy Irvine
Advertising was fairly simple work, and I really just wanted a job where I could sit and write every day and not get fired for it like I had at other jobs, but it was fun.
~ John Hughes
Much of the world's work, it has been said, is done by men who do not feel quite well. Marx is a case in point.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Now as a former welfare recipient, I don't have a problem with expecting people to work to earn money. But where I come from we call that a job, not volunteerism.
~ LZ Granderson
We cannot tax the same people we expect to create jobs. That is a recipe for keeping people out of work.
~ Martha Roby
Hmm mmm I mean, work is work, I'll take whatever work I can get.
~ Matthew McGrory
The right to work is a slogan which should be accepted by every democracy.
~ Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook
I usually spend my free time worrying about when I'm going to work next.
~ Merritt Wever
Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it.
~ P. G. Wodehouse