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Quotes About Jobs

Businesses don't give a crap about creating jobs. They care about making money. With robots, you'll just need some tech guys to maintain and repair them.
~ David Baldacci
On a different front, everybody said that casinos in South Africa would create jobs. They've had precisely the opposite effect. Wherever they've been erected, they've drained the local economy of money as poor people – seduced by the dream of becoming instant millionaires – have frittered away their hard-earned, meagre incomes on the slot machines. Consequently, local businesses and shops have suffered and have had to lay off
~ Unknown
There was also more practical inquiry. How should I make a living? How do I get my relatives out of my house? Could you help me postpone payment of this loan? The dervishes had jobs in the workday world: mason, weaver, bookbinder, grocer, hatmaker, tailor, carpenter. They were craftsmen and -women, not renunciates of everyday life, but affirmative makers and ecstatics. Some people call them sufis, or mystics. I say they're on the way of the heart.
~ Coleman Barks
Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.
~ Herbert Hoover
Look how many millions of people are underemployed or have lost their jobs. The last thing I'm going to do is play politics with their future.
~ Lindsey Graham
Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease.
~ Lisa Alther
The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed jobs, hamstrung economic growth and led to sharp declines in the values of many homes and businesses.
~ Ben Bernanke
There aren't that many actors with hair like this. And Amazon are casting Aragorn and they're doing Interview with the Vampire' on Hulu, so there's all these good jobs.
~ Tom Payne
A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks what's best for all.
~ Cornel West
My life has been varied, involving many jobs, but I have always been impatient with injustice.
~ Winnie Byanyima
My grandfather, as I said, was industrious. He'd had a variety of jobs and decided sometime in the 1940s that he would never work for anyone. He was also a very independent man.
~ Clarence Thomas
Trump, who in his own history as a developer preferred mob concrete and Chinese steel to the variety produced in the Rust Belt, cannot bring back the steel and manufacturing jobs lost in Lorain, Ohio or western Pennsylvania.
~ Joy Reid
I'd had a variety of jobs - shop assistant, writer of children's magazines - but had found myself, funnily enough, as quite an uninformed sports journalist so I might have stuck with that, but I would never have been very good at it.
~ Josh Widdicombe
I think everybody in my government now understands and appreciates that people who work in a whole variety of traditional industries across our state have good, decent jobs.
~ Annastacia Palaszczuk
I've always been able to work as an actor and support my family and did great jobs, and more often than not, I got to turn down jobs that I didn't really want to do for various reasons or refuse to work with people I didn't like - and there are quite a few.
~ Christoph Waltz
We're a trading nation. We need to have trade, we rely on it, a vast proportion of our jobs in our country rely on trade agreements.
~ Jagmeet Singh
If I care about poverty, I have to care a lot about investments in the private sector. The private sector creates the vast majority of jobs in the world, and social protection only goes so far.
~ Jim Yong Kim
You can't create more jobs for an economy where the vast majority of people are hesitant and even afraid to spend and buy.
~ Mark Goulston
I had quite a few jobs in Paris before hitting the jackpot and writing cookbooks. One of them was peeling vegetables and prepping other veggie delights at Bob's Juice Bar.
~ Rachel Khoo
Green growth is one vehicle through which technology, globalisation and environmental challenges can be turned from obstacles to solutions for problems related to growth, jobs and competitiveness.
~ Chuka Umunna
If we can produce more ethanol and bio-diesel to help fuel our vehicles, we will create jobs, boost local economies and produce cleaner burning fuels. This will keep dollars here at home where they can have a positive impact on our economy.
~ Rick Renzi
You've got athletes who are politicians, venture capitalists, musicians, rappers, etcetera. It's becoming more of a popular thing to have other interests outside of basketball, and I think that's normal. Just like when people work day jobs, they have interest in sports, they do investments, they do all these other types of things.
~ Jaylen Brown
I've probably done more venture capital deals and expansion financings than I have done private equity deals. But both are the same. Private equity companies have also built jobs.
~ Stephen Pagliuca
Hartsfield Jackson plays a fundamental role in recruiting and retaining jobs. It should be known as an economic driver - not a venue for shady deals.
~ Brian Kemp