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Quotes About Employment

Back there I could fly a gunship, I could drive a tank, I was in charge of million dollar equipment, back here I can't even hold a job PARKING CARS!
~ Sylvester Stallone
To cut 1930s jobless, FDR taxed corps and rich. Govt used money to hire many millions. Worked then; would now again. Why no debate on that?
~ Richard D. Wolff
Financial struggle is often the direct result of people working all their lives for someone else.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
The fundamental law of capitalism is: when workers have more money, businesses have more customers, and need more workers. The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.
~ Nick Hanauer
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I hated having to go out on the block and scramble - that's the worst job in the world, especially if you ain't making any real money.
~ Method Man
The poor need jobs and money, not psychoanalysis. The uneducated need knowledge and skills, not psychoanalysis.
~ Thomas Szasz
It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.
~ Ron Livingston
As for money - when I have it, it's great. When I don't, I go get some. I've been a dishwasher, a gardener, a cleaner.
~ Gil Scott-Heron
The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make money by their work.
~ Nevil Shute
The dream of having one's dream job turned into "Oh my God, I'll take any job. I've been out of work for two years now. I don't care what I do. I'll do anything because I don't have any money".
~ Suze Orman
I never wanted to have to take a job because I didn't have any money.
~ Michelle Pfeiffer
I have always said that if I were a rich man, I would employ a professional praiser.
~ Osbert Sitwell
'Get a Job' is about all the rich kids we knew when we were younger, kids who never had jobs but always had money for partying or getting their hair done.
~ Beth Ditto
I get paid by the year, and I try to earn my money.
~ Chuck Grassley
There were a zillion bad jobs. That doesn't exist any more. I mean, I could wake up one afternoon with zero money and know that by the end of the day, I would have money.
~ Fran Lebowitz
Every new computer program is basically doing some task that a person used to do. But the computer usually does it faster, more accurately, for less money, and without any health insurance costs.
~ Douglas Rushkoff
Let's not only provide a jumpstart to the economy and immediately or save 3 million jobs, but let's also put a down payment on some of the structural problems that we have in our economy.
~ Barack Obama
We have to create jobs, put money into the taxpayer's pocket and Hillary Clinton has not shown that she is competent to be President of the United States.
~ Doug Ford, Jr.
That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington.
~ Paul Ryan
People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and it's the machines that'll get good.
~ Jaron Lanier
If thou need money, get it in an honest way by keeping books, if thou wilt, but not by writing books.
~ John Lancaster Spalding
For every three machines, you lose two jobs out of the surrounding economy because people are dumping their money on gambling
~ John Warren Kindt
I've got people handling the media. I employ at the moment two people. No-one is paying income tax on the money they use to employ people.
~ Ken Livingstone