Quotes About Employment

People move up here pretty reliably, and as you know we hire almost exclusively from within.

Which of you are doing only what you were hired to do?

Businesses don't give a crap about creating jobs. They care about making money. With robots, you'll just need some tech guys to maintain and repair them.

To attract and retain the very best, we also paid the best people what they would command at other companies for a bigger job. Why wait until someone else tried to steal them away before paying them what the market said they were worth?

Who owns a man, Durnik?" the blond young man asked sadly. "The one who rules him, or the one who pays him?

It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure.

The Federal Reserve promises to reverse field to contain inflationary pressures, but that commitment is suspect, with the memory of recession still fresh, unless Congress and the president agree to a balanced budget at full employment. Reckless fiscal policy threatens the dollar's status as a reliable international store of value and the exorbitant privilege that confers on American consumers.

Around Whitehall, a sacking from Churchill was known as the 'awarding of the Order of the Boot.

And therefore, a Man who should neglect to render himself capable of such an employment, and yet pretend to it, ought to be severely punished.

The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.

If I didn't have a job, I might have stayed in bed until I rotted.

People are not being paid enough, and we have not increased the minimum wage -- and we should be incentivizing the people who go to work. We should make working full-time something that will pay a living wage.

A job is a home to a homeless man.

All people work for money. Principled people work for life.

Fair play is always expected in any game. Any job you work in is a game too.

No one ever listened themselves out of a job.

There is no economic failure so terrible in its import as that of a country possessing a surplus of every necessity of life in which numbers willing and anxious to work, are deprived of dire necessities. It simply cannot be if our moral and economic system is to survive.

The world had never experienced anything like the growth of the American economy in the 1920s. Manufacturing was at an all-time high, and so were profits. Employment, already burgeoning, was on the rise.

England needs roads, forts, harbours, bridges. Men need work. It's a shame to see them begging their bread, when honest labour could keep the realm secure. Can we not put them together, the hands and the task?

We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.

That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away.

Except that I have no marketable skills other than swinging around a sword and making up riddles, neither of which probably pay all that well.

Les jeunes gens, qui ne savaient à quoi employer leurs forces, ne les jetaient pas seulement dans le journalisme, dans les conspirations, dans la littérature et dans l'art, ils les dissipaient dans les plus étranges excès, tant

why do we waste ourselves at twenty scrambling for positions just so we can work for someone else?