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Quotes About Employment

The benefits of freer trade, such as job creation, lower inflation, and greater consumer choice, are often invisible or only partly visible.
~ Richard N. Haass
That is now my mission: to provide a European vision of growth, employment, prosperity - in one word, our future.
~ Francois Hollande
After recently acquiring a position as a seamstress at Damsels in Dis Dress,
~ Lorraine Heath
I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.
~ Louis C.K.
Maria Elena, the nanny Noelle known since birth, had headed off to a new job in Calgary.
~ Unknown
What do you do for a living?' 'I'm unemployed. I was an astronaut, but I got laid off.' And Andre roared at his own cleverness, a putrid laugh that seemed to deaden the room even further. 'Yeah, they hired a one-armed black lesbian to replace me.
~ Louise Penny
A reduction of the hours of labor to the point where all can have employment is worth a General Strike, because upon this point all efforts can be focused, and if carried, its beneficial effects would be felt immediately by the whole working class, men, women and children.
~ Unknown
With all production, employment, and distribution of output completely under the monopoly control of the State, the fate and fortune of every individual would be at the mercy of the political authority.
~ Ludwig von Mises
The distribution of sadness . . . by this I mean the overrepresentation of Mexican-origin populations in the bilges of poverty, and among the undereducated, underemployed, and underrepresented who suffer from poor mental and physical health and lack protection. They are also overrepresented in penal institutions and as war casualties. —Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez, "Regions of Refuge in the U.S.
~ Unknown
Employment does not necessarily protect people from precarious living.
~ Unknown
Tolerably good workmen in any of those mechanic arts are sure to find employ, and to be well paid for their work, there being no restraints preventing strangers from exercising any art they understand, nor any permission necessary. If they are poor, they begin first as servants or journeymen; and if they are sober, industrious, and frugal, they soon become masters, establish themselves in business, marry, raise families, and become respectable citizens.
~ Joel Salatin
because it's my job. It's how I make my living. And I'll tell you somethin' else: It's damn hard work bein' a girl full
~ John Berendt
All right for someone earning a hundred thousand a year. For most of us even contract rates are crippling; I should know.
~ John Brunner
Decent work is at the heart of the search for dignity for the individual, stability for the family and peace in the community.
~ Unknown
The dignity is in the worker, not in the job.
~ Howard Fast
You can take somebody's job, you have to take their job, but you don't have to take their dignity.
~ Ben Horowitz
The concept of dignity of labour took people off the street.
~ Sunday Adelaja
Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
~ John Maynard Keynes
a college education I would never propose - a bachelor's degree won't even keep you in clothes
~ Cole Porter
Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I expect my next job to be outside government.
~ John Engler
Most of us got jobs right after 'The Larry Sanders Show' because of 'The Larry Sanders Show.' I know that for a fact for myself.
~ Penny Johnson Jerald
I've never, ever had a job that lasted for more than a few months.
~ Amy Landecker
It's hard to get a job. There are more lawyers within a five-mile radius of wherever you're sitting than there are Division I jobs.
~ Ben Howland