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Quotes About Employment

In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.
~ Alan Clark
I am the one person who can truthfully say, I got my job through the New York Times.
~ John F. Kennedy
The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits.
~ Dick Wolf
When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.
~ John F. Kennedy
I will continue to stay very focused on the economy.
~ Donald Evans
More people are working, lending is up and savings are up. These are all positive signs for a strengthening economy.
~ Jamie Dimon
It is better to deal with unemployment than allowing yourself to be employed and remain unpaid!
~ Lukhman Pambra
Your purpose has the capacity to employ and enrich you for a lifetime.
~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Providing employment is the best form of social service, as it serves you, others, your country, your world - the entire society.
~ Amit Kalantri
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
~ Will Rogers
We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get more for not working than you will for working, and more for not raising a hog than for raising it.
~ Will Rogers
There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.
~ will.i.am
in status, he became a plantation manager,
~ Willard Sterne Randall
Full employment does not mean literally no unemployment; that is to say, it does not mean that every man and woman in the country who is fit and free for work is employed productively every day of his or her working life ... Full employment means that unemployment is reduced to short intervals of standing by, with the certainty that very soon one will be wanted in one's old job again or will be wanted in a new job that is within one's powers.
~ William Beveridge
Whatever their many vices, wrote Shushtari, the English welcomed and rewarded talent: 'the English have no arbitrary dismissal,' he noted, 'and every competent person keeps his job until he writes his own request for retirement or resignation. More remarkable still is that they take part in most of the festivals and ceremonies of Muslims and Hindus, mixing with the people. They pay great respect to accomplished scholars of whatever sect.
~ William Dalrymple
One man said it was very wrong to kill the memsahib and the children, and how were they going to get rozgar [employment]? But another said that we were kafirs, and now the King of Delhi would provide for everyone.
~ William Dalrymple
Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.
~ William Feather
Hence it is not upon the masters nor upon the public that trades-unions exert the pressure by which they raise wages; it is upon other persons of the labor class who want to get into the trades, but, not being able to do so, are pushed down into the unskilled labor class. These
~ William Graham Sumner
Physicians, lawyers, and others paid by fees are workers by the piece. To
~ William Graham Sumner
In this country, where workmen move about frequently and with facility, the unions suffer in their harmony and stability. It
~ William Graham Sumner
keep me on the payroll, but I could not stay there, not as a charity case. Laurie might be able to go back to teaching, but we would not be able to pay the bills on her income alone. This is an aspect of crime stories I never fully appreciated until I became one: it is so ruinously expensive to mount a defense that, innocent or guilty, the accusation is itself a devastating punishment. Every defendant pays a price.
~ William Landay
I ride on the shoulder of a road that is lined with chain stores, none of them specific to this area. Everyone who works in them is therefore an employee hired by some anonymous distant corporation. They probably are only allowed to make small decisions and they have almost no stake or investment in the place where they work.
~ David Byrne
We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work.
~ David Cameron
While significant strides have been made in the pursuit of life expectancy, healthcare, educational opportunities, and constitutional protections for women, the Supreme Court, in particular, still wrestles with their status, as evidenced by their problems in pursuing equal opportunity in education and employment, reproductive freedom, the military, and violence against women.
~ David E. Wilkins