Quotes About Employment

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

My daughter, I'm proud to say, is senior vice president of ABC Family network. She could hire and fire me. She has hired me, but she has not fired me.

I know having a job can sometimes be very challenging, but not having one can be too.

My father values talent. He recognizes real knowledge and skill when he finds it. He is color blind and gender neutral. He hires the best person for the job, period.

My father had a couple of kids at the beginning of the Depression. There was not much employment. Not much welfare. People barely got by. People were tougher then.

We can no longer let the threat of an early frost send a chill of fear throughout a large portion of our workforce. Diversification is the only answer.

If you don't have a job, you don't have a fear of losing it. You fear having to get one.

One of the things that worry business men is the number of unemployed on the payroll.

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

Yo no era más que el instrumento de unos hábitos de no trabajar.

All the products of one period resemble one another; the artists who illustrate the poetry of their generation are the same artists who are employed by the big financial houses.

We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again.

Mitt Romney will stop the attacks on job creators, encourage entrepreneurs to chase their dreams, and bring good jobs and a better future to all Americans.

In his book Average Is Over, economist Tyler Cowen sees a future in which high earners are those who "get" computers and information technology. Low earners, he argues, will be those who don't—the less technologically adept who will be forced to work in jobs attending to the needs and wants of the high earners.

Als leven een baan is, wilde ik ontslag nemen. Maar ik kon het kantoor niet vinden dat over ontslagaanvragen ging.

The survey of the time spent in the home by most housewives established that, on average, they worked 75 hours a week, with overtime on Saturdays and Sundays. This did not take into account that a number of women were also doing part or full-time work outside the home.

LESSON 8: Forming families is serious business. It requires a measure of thoughtful planning, economic stability, and commitment, particularly with the downward spiral of wages and job opportunities for young families of all races and with the rising costs of good child care and housing, which often require more than one employed parent.

The lack of a husband was, for some applicants, a selling point. I imagine many of my readers are aware of the awkward position in which governesses often find themselves -- or, rather, the awkward position into which their male employers often put them, for it does no one any service to pretend this happens by some natural and inexorable process, devoid of connection with anyone's behaviour.

My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially because they didn't have a job that gave them a pension.

If you don't plan to have someone work for you, you will work for someone else. There is no in-between.

Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.

With rising incomes, the share of expenditures for food products declines. The resulting shift in expenditures affects demand patterns and employment structures.

I like working with the public, I like working with food, and I like making cash.

If you don't have children and you don't have a job, you have time for friendship ... People who have jobs are not the best friends to have. It's better to be friends with people who are unemployed.