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Quotes About Employment

I was a pizza delivery man. I worked at a gas station. I worked a lot of jobs, man. A lot of jobs.
~ Joseph Bruce
Tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.
~ William Shakespeare
What ever happened to freak shows? Back in the twenties when elephant man was born at least he had a job waiting for him.
~ Doug Stanhope
It is easier for a man to be thought fit for an employment that he has not, than for one he stands already possessed of, and is exercising.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is observable that God has often called men to places of dignity and honor when they have been busy in the honest employment of their vocation.
~ Benjamin Franklin
We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Jimmy Lee Baylis was a wise man, and knew better than to talk back to the man who signed his paycheck.
~ Carl Hiaasen
When men cut jobs, they're seen as decisive. When women do, they're vindictive.
~ Carly Fiorina
Shaq is rich. The white man who signs his check... is wealthy. "Ah, here you go, Shaq. Go buy yourself a bouncing car. Bling, bling!"
~ Chris Rock
Men are more salary-sensitive when they're choosing a job.
~ Dana Goldstein
Men without jobs do not form families.
~ Eleanor Holmes Norton
You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
~ George Bernard Shaw
To deny a man a job is to say that a man has no right to exist.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
One man's fantasy is another man's job.
~ Richard Avedon
The only way that a government can provide for jobs for all citizens is by deciding what every man should do.
~ H. L. Mencken
It is remarkable that there are few men so well employed, so much to their minds, but that a little money or fame would commonly buy them off from their present pursuit.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Labor unions are the worst thing that ever struck the earth because they take away a man's independence.
~ Henry Ford
The ancient bitter opposition to improved methods [of production] on the ancient theory that it more than temporarily deprives men of employment... has no place in the gospel of American progress.
~ Herbert Hoover
Financial hardships were rough on us, even though Mom had a good job at G.M.
~ Ryan White
The vast majority (over 80 percent) of fast-food and similar low wage service jobs (<$9.24/hr) are held by adults. A quarter are adults over 40. Another quarter are moms raising kids.
~ David Rolf
My parents were workers. My mom, especially in my high school years, was a stock clerk at Kmart... My dad was a bartender that worked banquets.
~ Marco Rubio
We are lending money we don't have to kids who can't pay it back to train them for jobs that no longer exist. That's nuts.
~ Mike Rowe
Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.
~ George Carlin
I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.
~ Joseph Campbell