Quotes About Employment

In economic terms, we've always thought of work as a disutility - as something you do to get something else. Now it's increasingly a utility - something that's valuable and worthy in its own right.

People that work at the White House, they stay forever and love the job. Someone asked me, "Was there really a butler that was there for 40 years?" I said, "No, they're all there for 40 years."

There is no right to work in a think tank, and these are very privileged positions.

Look at labor policy. What's the point of making everybody work too much? It's not very useful. It is destroying the planet, actually. But it's great at keeping people off the streets.

Rick Perry has now accused Mitt Romney of hiring illegal aliens to work on his hair.

I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library.

Film people are coming into TV, because they can't get any work.

I could never hold a job for more than three months, which works out well because that's how long a movie shoots.

I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because then there's no work and no potential of work.

If people work for me over the years, I expect them to be paid what they're owed, but I don't expect them to be paid more than they earn.

We will ensure that E-Verify is used to the fullest extent possible under existing law, and will work with Congress to strengthen and expand its use across the country.

Let's get unemployed Americans off the welfare and back to work in their own country.

I'm a great believer in all forms of energy, but we're putting a lot of people out of work. Our energy policies are a disaster.

We ought to recognise the profound gulf between the work to which we are 'called' and the work we are forced into as a means of livelihood.

If all men and women were kept at some useful employment there would be less sorrow and wickedness in the world.

I don't know if it's the economy, but finding work as a spiritual guru is really hard. Maybe I should grow my hair out.

If you work for a man, in Heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply your bread and butter, work for him, stand by him, and stand by the institution he represents.

I didn't like not having work and not having people return my calls.

People don't work in factories, [they aren't] big muscular guys. The working class is flabby because they're sitting in front of a computer all day, but it's still their labor being extracted.

Work could cure almost anything

To the worker, God himself lends aid.

I used to work at UPS I got fired for unloading packages into my car.

It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others.

I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.