Quotes About Employment

For most people, life would be boring without meaningful work.

So I do have to work, you know, and I find as many movies and TV shows that I can, because otherwise I wouldn't have an income.

You need somebody to support the retirees. You need to pay into the pension plans. You need people to work at the hospitals, at the nursing homes.

We may not realize it, but a crucial step in building a healthy economy is helping people move from welfare to work.

I'd rather work than not.

I don't work. I keep telling people I'm unemployed. And I don't wash dishes, and I don't wash clothes, and I don't clean my house. Somebody else does that.

After all, we are not promoting welfare. We are promoting work. We are not pushing for more entitlement programs. We are pushing for more enterprise. We are not trying re-distribute existing wealth.

If there'd been a better-balanced society, where there were other ways of making a decent living, I think it might have been different. That's not the way this setup work.

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

If women really earned fifty-nine cents to the dollar for the same work as men, what business could compete effectively by hiring men at any level?

If an employer had to pay a man one dollar for the same work a woman could do for 59 cents, why would anyone hire a man?

People who work 44 hours per week make 50 percent more than people who work 34 hours a week.

We have a moral obligation to make sure the people who are being required to work have the opportunity to work. We must make sure the jobs are there.

I do not believe we can repair the basic fabric of society until people who are willing to work have work. Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life.

We are moving people from welfare to work. On welfare, we launch a quiet revolution.

Employment was invented to make education seem useful.

Unionism seldom if ever uses such powers as it has to ensure better work almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguarding bad work.

Anyone who is honestly seeking a job and can't find it deserves the attention of the United States government and the people.

Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live.

Getting fired from work is not a death sentence

Getting fired from work is not a tragedy

Knowing what to do with time is the first step to take when you lose your job

You already have the most important tool which is work

In a job you trade your freedom and time for money.