Quotes About Jobs

While America's infrastructure needs are substantial, there is no reason to delay completion of the highway bill. Every day of delay means jobs lost, investment opportunities missed and growth sacrificed.

We have been blessed with substantial opportunities to continue to expand our business globally. This ultimately will create more jobs for the state of Missouri, and I am choosing to make that my primary focus.

Our economy is creating jobs and giving businesses the conditions they need to invest and succeed.

We both find during interviews that "downtime-revealed preferences" are more interesting than "stories about your prior jobs.

You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances.

despite the decline in consumer spending brought on by the greatest economic downturn since World War II, the difference between jobs in manufacturing and in retail had reached nearly three million workers, a depressing reality of a failing economy where most new opportunities were low-paid, part-time positions to sell Chinese apparel and electronics bought on credit.

The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure.

meaning, creativity, flexibility, and a sort of rapid prototyping not just of jobs but of entire careers.

We take our identity and our self-worth from our jobs.

The dreams we had of finding meaning and fulfillment through our jobs have faded into the reality of professional politics, burnout, boredom and intense competition.

We're going to start making things again in America. As part of our plan to bring back our jobs, we're going to lower our business tax from 35 percent to 15 tax, the biggest since Ronald Reagan.

It is business that generates the jobs, income and taxes that keep a country going.

My aim is to integrate business connections into vulnerable communities thus creating jobs.

I want us to do more to help small business. That's where two- thirds of the new jobs are going to come from.

The United States cannot continue to lose vast amounts of business, vast amounts of companies, and millions and millions of people losing their jobs.

I think the big thing is to talk about getting people working again and addressing the issues that are keeping small business from being able to grow.

You see the unemployment rate is at a very, very low level. Job enthusiasm and manufacturing, business enthusiasm is at record levels; never been higher... We've got it going.

Estimates show that small businesses contribute 60-80 percent of the net new jobs annually.

When you raise taxes on small business, from 35% to 40%, you will kill jobs.

Small business is where jobs come from. Two-thirds of our jobs come from small businesses.

But in the business I had, we invested in over 100 different businesses and net-net, taking out the ones where we lost jobs and those that we added, those businesses have now added over 100,000 jobs.

Tourism is our second biggest industry in terms of the people it employs.

An excess of meetings indicates that jobs have not been defined clearly, have not been structured big enough, have not been made truly responsible. Also the need for meetings indicates that the decisions and relations analyses either have not been made at all or have not been applied. The rule should be to minimize the need for people to get together to accomplish anything.

Restructuring a job usually means restructuring a score of jobs, moving people around, and upsetting everybody. There is one exception: the exceedingly rare, truly exceptional man for whose sake the rule should be broken.