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Quotes About Employment

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
~ Alexandre Dumas
He that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honor.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I can count on one hand the number of people who wrote me a thank you letter after having an interview, and I gave almost all of them a job.
~ Kate Reardon
Taking employment out of the country - now that's taking away jobs. These shows employ a lot of people: production, post-production, music supervisors, camera people. A hundred people or more.
~ Corbin Bernsen
People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage and got a job. And so the music became my ticket to education.
~ David Soul
It is inherent in the nature of the capitalistic economy that, in the final analysis, the employment of the factors of production is aimed only toward serving the wishes of consumers.
~ Ludwig von Mises
If I was a freak of nature... Hell yeah I wanna do freak shows! I don't wanna be applying for jobs at the mall.
~ Doug Stanhope
If you need to conceal your true nature to get in the door, understand that you'll probably have to conceal your true nature to keep that job.
~ Seth Godin
One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Employment, which Galen calls 'Nature's Physician,' is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery.
~ Robert A. Burton
There are always, of course, job losses of a cyclical nature in a recession.
~ Tim Bishop
There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
I know no better way to show true patriotism and love for one's country, than investing to create wealth and employment.
~ Strive Masiyiwa
There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.
~ Robert Reich
Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
~ Alan Greenspan
There is no more certain way to deter employment than to harass and penalize employers.
~ Henry Hazlitt
There are no dead-end jobs. There are no dead-end jobs. There are only dead-end people. Our current social philosophy, and the welfare state apparatus based on it, are creating more dead-end people.
~ Thomas Sowell
In the mid-1960s, as hard to believe as it may be now, choosing to go into academic philosophy was not an imprudent career choice. There were lots of academic jobs in philosophy then.
~ Allen W. Wood
An educated person would know that holding a degree will not make you entitled to a better job nor a better salary than someone who has no degree.
~ J.B.
The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.
~ Philip Levine
Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged
~ John Maynard Keynes
Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows she still has a job next year.
~ Dan Quayle
The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better.
~ Harry Truman
You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work.
~ Lewis Black