Quotes About Employment

Workers work hard enough to not be fired, and owners pay just enough so that workers won't quit.

If you, reader, had been one of the hands, would you have slogged? Or would you have preferred to starve and see your family starve? If you had been in Crass's place, would you have resigned rather than do such dirty work?

This is my last communique from the planet of the monsters. Never again will I immerse myself in literature's bottomless cesspools. I will go back to writing my poems, such as they are, find a job to keep body and soul together, and make no attempt to be published.

She said. I actually had my butt torn a few weeks ago. But it's like any job. You have good days and bad days.

for he had plenty of money and nothing to do, and Satan is proverbially fond of providing employment for full and idle hands. The poor fellow had temptations enough from without and from within, but he withstood them pretty well, for much as he valued liberty, he valued good faith and confidence more

He will willingly fill the more menial positions, and do the heavy work, at less wages, than the American white man

Reasonably generous in wages, salaries, and pensions, he paid somewhat above the industry average.

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

It is true that I opposed quotas in employment, education, and other areas. I consider quotas, whether they favor blacks or whites, men or women, to be a new form of discrimination as bad as the old ones.

If men had not this delusion as to the ultra-importance of their own particular employments, I suppose that they would sit down and kill themselves. But their weakness is wearisome, particularly when the listener knows that he himself commits exactly the same sin.

He had a reasonable job as an actuary (whatever that was)

When he resigned his boss thought he was asking for more money. 'No,' he said. 'I'm just going to try to be a full-time writer.' Oh, his boss said, you want a lot more money. 'No, really,' he said. 'This isn't a negotiation. I'm just giving you my thirty days' notice. Thirty-one days from now, I won't be coming in.' Hmm, his boss replied. I don't think we can give you as much money as that .

I'll be a president that will turn our inner cities around and will give strength to people and will give economics to people and will bring jobs back.

I pay low wages. I can take advantage of that. We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage, low-benefit model of employment.

Only those who constantly retool themselves stand a chance of staying employed in the years ahead.

Well, yes, I've fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. But I have fired many people.

Once, a union job at GM or AT&T was a bridge to success. Now, a nonunion Wal-Mart job is a bridge to nowhere.

Hey, if I don't have a job, I don't know why I bother to get up. Any time the phone rings, I'm ready to go. What else am I going to do? See, I've never retired. I don't even know what it means.

For some constitutions work is the cure for all ills.

Under wage labor, the art advances, the artisan declines.

A man so slimy he would have found employment as axle grease.

Then, I would guess, they are largely, if not entirely, expended. So it always is with mercenaries. Easily hired, even more easily discharged and never missed once they are gone.

Akkora csúszómászó volt, hogy munkát vállalhatott volna egy terráriumban.