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Quotes About Employment

I've got my own businesses I run every day and I like to think I'm a nurturer rather than a firer, but the reality is, if somebody continues not to succeed and do the right thing for the business they lose the job because they are affecting the livelihoods of others.
~ Peter Jones
Even things like supermarket self-checkouts, they do mean people's jobs go. It's always worth thinking about the implications of things. Just because something's easier, it doesn't mean that it's the right thing to do.
~ Emily Berrington
Most households in the 21st century have two working parents juggling responsibilities, including caring for infants and elderly and their own health. If we can assist them with these critical responsibilities in a way that also considers the impact on employers, we'll have helped our future economic growth and done the right thing.
~ Ned Lamont
I absolutely hated 'Gattaca.' I left the theater shaking my head because the science in the film was just terrible. No genetic test will ever tell you how many heartbeats you have left. No genetic test will ever be more accurate in telling an employer how well you'll do at a job than your performance at a past job would be.
~ Ramez Naam
Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get.
~ Ed Asner
When I put something into motion, the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed. I'm just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I'll die. But, it really is about that shared experience with people. I'm from theater, and that's really what theater feels like.
~ Adam Shankman
I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
~ Magic Johnson
I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theatre, I didn't even know there was a show business!
~ David Geffen
'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip.
~ Scott Adams
I worked for this company that repossessed cars. Sure enough, the day after I quit, they repossessed my car, but that would probably be my strangest job to date. You have to work your way up to become a hardcore repo man.
~ Romany Malco
For the next few centuries, brahmans who migrated from Kanauj to seek employment elsewhere were highly respected for their knowledge of ritual and their learning.
~ Romila Thapar
It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.
~ Ron Livingston
Public servants in this Europe often do their best when they stop caring about whether they'll be fired.
~ Ron Suskind
Under the Healthy Americans Act, you're in charge of your health care - not your employer. If you lose your job, change jobs or just can't find a job, your health insurance is guaranteed to stick with you.
~ Ron Wyden
I believe that whether you love your job or hate your job, get laid off or are just in-between jobs, you deserve health care that can never be taken away.
~ Ron Wyden
I think the best possible social program is a job
~ Ronald Reagan
Poverty is a career for lot's of well paid people
~ Ronald Reagan
The best minds in government? If any were, business would hire them away
~ Ronald Reagan
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
~ Ronald Reagan
Moi aussi peut-être, en réfléchissant bien, j'aurais pu rechercher un emploi dans un de ces bureaux dont je lisais les pancartes éclatantes du dehors... Mais à la pensée d'avoir à pénétrer dans une de ces maisons je m'effarais et m'effondrais de timidité. Mon hôtel me suffisait. Tombe gigantesque et odieusement animée.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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.
~ Lous-Ferdinand Céline
Work?" Sixtus asked.
~ Luanne Rice
With sociology one can do anything and call it work.
~ Malcolm Bradbury
it is not possible to staff a large company without short people. There simply aren't enough tall people to go around.
~ Malcolm Gladwell