Quotes About Jobs

They're all aristocrats, that's true, said Wyatt, because they know that there's no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it.

The government was taking money, jobs, college slots, and status away from hardworking, deserving people like us and handing it all to people like them—those who didn't share our values, who didn't work as hard as we did, the kind of people whose problems were of their own making.

Marvin had held a variety of jobs, from golf caddy to bartender at a strip club, before landing work as John Kerry's body man four years earlier. It's a strange role, the body man: a personal assistant and jack-of-all-trades responsible for making sure that the candidate has everything he or she needs to function, whether a favorite snack or a couple of Advil, an umbrella when it's wet or a scarf when it's cold

the financial markets had helped accelerate the offshoring of jobs and the concentration of wealth in a handful of cities and economic sectors

The circumstances, I felt, demanded it. The October jobs report, released three days after the election, was dismal: 240,000 jobs lost (revisions would later reveal that the true number was 481,000).

Still, key Democratic interest groups—especially the big industrial unions—resisted any environmental measures that might threaten jobs for their members; and in polls we conducted at the start of my campaign, the average Democratic voter ranked climate change near the bottom of their list of concerns. Republican

It's humbling, this business of applying for low-wage jobs, consisting as it does of offering yourself--your energy, your smile, your real or faked lifetime of experience--to a series of people for whom this is just not a very interesting package.

Into the 1960s and even the '70s, players held offseason jobs not to fill the time but to feed their families. Yogi Berra worked at a Sears, Roebuck. Lou Brock became a florist. Players sold real estate and insurance, worked in mines and on ranches.

People who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary, consistent with correct principles, to get the job done.

Over the years, I have frequently counseled people who wanted better jobs to show more initiative—to take interest and aptitude tests, to study the industry, even the specific problems the organizations they are interested in are facing, and then to develop an effective presentation showing how their abilities can help solve the organization's problem. It's called "solution selling," and is a key paradigm in business success.

But people who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary, consistent with correct principles, to get the job done.

Good-paying jobs were shipped to Mexico or Asia where they could be downgraded to sweatshop wages while the president made empty gestures about job training and touted the benefits of the global economy. It didn't matter whether they were Republicans or Democrats, they all sang the same song.

Among college students, economics and philosophy majors have similar current incomes, but it's the economics students who drive cars, because it's the economics students who expect to have jobs someday.

You cannot be pro-jobs and anti-business at the same time. You cannot love employment and hate employers.

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and the answer to why they're mad about the shoes is because they should change jobs

What will we do in a globalised world? All human beings are equal, so they have the same right to have the same lifestyle-the same social security, jobs, education.

Immigration is not the top issue for Latinos. Latinos are like every other American - economy, jobs, healthcare, education.

What is needed is permanent jobs and the Centre has done everything to discriminate against the Dalits by not releasing funds for them.

I've said many times that people are policy. And to be truly successful in any big organization you need to put people into jobs where they have relevant experience, relevant subject-matter expertise and the capacity to actually perform.

Our communities must demand dignified housing, satisfying jobs, and proper labor conditions; our educational system must be culturally relevant, multi-lingual, and teach our histories. Our value should not be determined by legal records.

Reliable data on the outsourcing of American jobs is sorely missing from the debate on globalization.

Reliable and competitively priced electricity is fundamental to growing our economy and creating jobs. Our customers expect nothing less.

Hardworking Georgia families need reliable Internet access for their jobs, education, health care and so much more.