Quotes About Employment

The rich did well under Obama's policies; it was the working class that got creamed. This was because the economy just wouldn't grow as it usually does.

After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.

It's not going to be technology. It's not going to be globalization. It's going to be policy decisions and policy settings that will form the future of work.

Obstacles to job creation in America are a result of policy, not of motivation.

The question of whether one has one's own political power or goes to work for someone else is not only a feminist question.

When you interview at Google, they don't tell you what the job is. You get hired for a pool and the reason they do it that way is they don't want outsiders learning their secrets in the interview process.

Businesses want to be in places where there is a deep talent pool.

The globalization that has rescued so many in poor countries has harmed some people in rich countries, as factories and jobs migrated to where labor is cheaper.

I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?

Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?

The more time I spent in developing countries, and the more time I spent talking to poor people, I realized what they want more than anything is a good job.

I've had two callers ask, 'Did you ever work for someone who is poorer than you are?' Their idea is it takes a rich person to give you a job because jobs are something that are given to you, an inferior, from on high.

Poorly negotiated and lazily enforced trade deals have caused jobs to flee the heartland.

Starting at 11, I was a movie-theater popcorn girl, a babysitter, a sales clerk - in the Midwest, they start them early!

Our great history has been that people came to Michigan because you didn't have to have a college degree to get a good-paying job. Consequently, we have got a larger number of our population that right now are facing outsourcing, et cetera, without higher or advanced degrees.

Population is a strong driver of the economy as well as the quality of the labor force.

The debate around the ageing population should, in my view, focus much more on how we grow the active, working population.

We need to create jobs across Africa and provide its growing population with a route out of poverty where they are.

Our country needs to produce 250,000 net new jobs every month just to keep even with population growth.

You tell people that all the time, 'Jail's the worst place ever and you don't want to go there,' which is true but at the same time you see it's filled with a bunch of people like guy is drinking on a porch somewhere and he gets arrested for public intoxication. He's going to miss work. He's not a bad guy per se.

We should work to de-link health insurance from employment so if you lose your job, your health insurance goes with you and it is personal, portable and affordable.

You never want to be in a position where you can't make payroll.

By and large, small companies don't want to settle for part-time employees over full-time positions.

I've been an employee all my life. Would I wish, if I could rewind it, to have gone down a different route? Possibly, but I've had a great time. Anyway I'm not ruling it out; I could still buy a business.