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Quotes About Employment

In the Information Age and the age of the Internet, millions of people under the age of 30 are getting rich using their imaginations to create apps that change the world—from Facebook to Uber to Snapchat and others. Those with imaginations thrive while those without it are still looking for a job… a job that may soon be replaced by robots and technology.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
The problem was that he couldn't find an equivalent job that recognized his seniority from the old company.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
The richest people in the world build networks. Everyone else is trained to look for work.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
I think I'd rather get a job. Why? Why not? Jobs are for people who need them. You don't need one. You'd be taking it from somebody else who did.
~ Robertson Davies
Drudgery means doing an ungrateful task for an ungrateful person – and anyone employed at the bottom of the labour market knows what that means. The
~ Roger Scruton
He describes a particular faculty, reason, in its illegitimate employment; he also demolishes all the claims to knowledge that this faculty tempts us to make.
~ Roger Scruton
People sleeping on pavements gives industry a bad name. My friend was saying last week—he's the director of a multinational, mind you, not some small, two-paisa business—he was saying that at least two hundred million people are surplus to requirements, they should be eliminated.
~ Rohinton Mistry
Having prospered as a merchant, Jesse was now worth $100,000—equivalent to nearly $3 million today—and employed about fifty people. When he reached sixty in 1854, he had begun to withdraw from active management of his business interests. His holdings included several tanneries near Portsmouth, Ohio, and leather goods stores in Wisconsin, Iowa, and Galena, Illinois.
~ Ron Chernow
But Perkins had left the bank on bad terms
~ Ron Chernow
Politely firing the man, he took charge of financial matters and pored over stacks of incomprehensible bills.
~ Ron Chernow
Having often hired people based on general ability, not specific skills—Gates himself being a prime example—Rockefeller acceded to the choice.
~ Ron Chernow
When he doubled the length of trains without expanding their crews, trainmen walked off the job in protest.
~ Ron Chernow
one of the dumbest academic decisions ever made (and that is a tough list to top), Maxwell was unceremoniously laid off.
~ Lawrence M. Krauss
You tell a lot of lies, Ms. Berenson," he said. Berenson said nothing. Neagley said, "She's Human Resources. It's what they do.
~ Lee Child
There are four types of people who join the military. For some, it's a family trade. Others are patriots, eager to serve. Next, you have those who just need a job. Than there's the kind who want a legal means of killing other people.
~ Lee Child
Right there. Stan Reacher, nem con. Which was short for the Latin nemine contradicente, which meant no one spoke against, which meant no one else wanted the job.
~ Lee Child
an extra fifty cents a week. Leave your clothes in the
~ Leigh Greenwood
The Puritan divine Richard Steele wrote, God doth call every man and woman…to serve him in some peculiar employment in this world, both for their own and the common good.…The Great Governor of the world hath appointed to every man his proper post and province.
~ Leland Ryken
In the capitalist society there is a place and bread for all. Its ability to expand provides sustenance for every worker. Permanent unemployment is not a feature of free capitalism.
~ Ludwig von Mises
The interventionist policy (big government) provides thousands and thousands of people with safe, placid, and not too strenuous jobs at the expense of the rest of society.
~ Ludwig von Mises
I'm crafting a vision of my life that involves creativity. And Cuban society allows me to do this. I know it's harder in the U.S. where so many people are just grateful to have a job.
~ Assata Shakur
What makes for the good society is a sound economy. Without it, all the rest falls apart.
~ Llewellyn Rockwell
The rich don't have to kill to eat. They employ people, as they call it. The rich don't do evil themselves. They pay. People do all they can to please them, and everybody's happy.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Donald Trump says he'll cut taxes and that will make the more productive members of our society more productive still and that he'd create more jobs.
~ Paul Solman