Top 100 Quotes About Employment
#1. Keynes declared capitalism the best system ever devised to achieve a civilized economic society. But he recognized in it two major faults - its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.
Robert B. Reich
#2. Let your holidays be associated with great public events, and they may be the life of patriotism as well as a source of relaxation and personal employment.
Tryon Edwards
#3. If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already.
Paul Ryan
#4. A productive employee who is kept busy working at his or her job is far more likely to be happy at that job and less likely to look for employment elsewhere.
Zig Ziglar
#5. I love employment, and it's never, ever guaranteed. As much as I love doing animated voices, I just love working.
Anne Hathaway
#6. Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past.
John Thorn
#7. Her next solicitude was to furnish herself with a well-chosen collection of books: and this employment, which to a lover of literature, young and ardent in its pursuit, is perhaps the mind's first luxury, proved a source of entertainment so fertile and delightful that it left her nothing to wish.
Fanny Burney
#8. All of us live by the employment of countless untested assumptions, the truth of falsehood of which we can determine only through the hazard of our lives. Since most of us value our lives more than the truth, we leave such drastic tests for the fanatics.
Robert Sheckley
#9. I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.
Dan Gilroy
#10. In our industry today only a strong company with a global reach can ensure long-term employment and provide acceptable returns for shareholders.
Lakshmi
#11. Snohetta promotes a more democratic workplace atmosphere than most other architectural offices. This may merely reflect prevalent employment practices in Scandinavia, but Snohetta places a stronger emphasis on group participation in the design process than typical high-style firms.
Martin Filler
#12. An ethical, high quality, student centered, outcomes driven, affordable education for the benefit of our fellow citizens seeking a better life by means of gainful employment from career focused education and training.
David J. Waldron
#13. Reconciliation will not work if it puts a higher value on symbolic gestures and overblown promises rather than the practical needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in areas like health, housing, education and employment.
Warren Mundine
#14. Were crimes respected? Well, yes. In a sense they were. They gave employment, do you see, to a vast number of people -- policemen, judges, lawyers and such like, who would otherwise have had no place in society.
Frank Baker
#15. Yes. We do think that the stimulus package is raising GDP and raising employment relative to what would have happened otherwise.
Doug Elmendorf
#16. Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever
Edmund Burke
#17. Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#18. Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment.
Bob Black
#19. Vicinity to the sea is desirable, because it is easier to do nothing by the sea than anywhere else, and because bathing and basking on the shore cannot be considered an employment but only an apotheosis of loafing. ("Expiation")
E.F. Benson
#20. Founded on the principles of private initiative, entrepreneurship and self-employment, underpinned by the values of democracy, equality and solidarity, the co-operative movement can help pave the way to a more just and inclusive economic order.
Kofi Annan
#21. Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment; and I have known a man come home in high spirits from a funeral, merely because he has had the management of it.
William Cornelius Van Horne
#22. The real and essential question is one of our employment by other human beings and their employment by us.
Saul Bellow
#23. Developing skills is as important as training. A larger effort is needed to create a skilled workforce with employment potential.
Pallam Raju
#24. Germany cannot get out of the euro. What it has to do, therefore, is make the economy more flexible - to eliminate the restrictions on prices, on wages and on employment; in short, the regulations that keep 10 percent of the German workforce unemployed.
Milton Friedman
#25. Reopening an Employment Door to the Young
Anonymous
#26. But a mind of usefulness and ingenuity seemed to furnish him with constant employment within.
Jane Austen
#27. The difference between mind and brain is that brain deals only with memorized, subjective, special-case experiences and objective experiments, while mind extracts and employs the
generalized principles and integrates and interrelates their effective employment.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#28. There is no existence so content as that whose present is engrossed by employment, and whose future is filled by some strong hope, the truth of which is never proved. Toil and illusion are the only secrets to make life tolerable ...
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#29. One might also ask why we should develop energy-intensive robots to work in one of the few areas - care for children or elderly people - in which people with little education can find employment.
Peter Singer
#31. As education and employment secretary in 1997, I inherited hundreds of schools where the roofs leaked, the windows rattled, and they relied entirely on outside toilets.
David Blunkett
#32. New technologies are wreaking havoc on employment figures - from EZpasses ousting toll collectors to Google-controlled self-driving automobiles rendering taxicab drivers obsolete.
Douglas Rushkoff
#33. Oh, that I had a thousand lives and a thousand bodies! All of them should be devoted to no other employment but to preach Christ to these degraded, despised, yet beloved mortals.
Robert Moffat
#34. Workmen's compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.
Calvin Coolidge
#35. What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#36. Employment is the exploitation of the employer's courage, and, the employed's fear of failure.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#37. Favouring employment versus the financial markets is a decent policy; certainly not beneficial for the currency or the gilt market, but beneficial for the people.
Bill Gross
#38. Air control can be established by superiority in numbers, by better employment, by better equipment, or by a combination of these factors.
Carl Andrew Spaatz
#39. The employment of the word Logic to denote the theory of Argumentation, is derived from the Aristotelian, or, as they are commonly termed, the scholastic, logicians.
John Stuart Mill
#41. It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
Barbara Castle
#42. You should consider an employment change before you consider selling out.
Phil McGraw
#43. If I spoke no English, my world would be limited to the Japanese-speaking community, and no matter how talented I was, I could never do business, seek employment or take part in public affairs outside that community.
S.I. Hayakawa
#44. So, Mr. President, what is wrong with the fair employment practice bill?
Dennis Chavez
#45. Your great employment is to bring the individual souls of men to Christ.
Edward Norris Kirk
#46. If I run a time-limited test program, I'll never discover whether markets with additional employment truly exist. A solution in the low-wage sector cannot be a limited special program.
Angela Merkel
#47. The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment ... the European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
Noam Chomsky
#48. The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life.
David Hume
#49. Co-operative enterprises provide the organisational means whereby a significant proportion of humanity is able to take into its own hands the tasks of creating productive employment, overcoming poverty and achieving social integration.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
#50. Multimedia is not more media, but the employment of various kinds of media (and hybrid media) for what they each offer to advance the narrative.
Fred Ritchin
#51. What made me this way was watching my father go through bad employment experiences. When I was 17, and he was 65, I saw him go through the experiences working for a boss that was rude and obnoxious. I swore if I was ever had the capacity to run a company that I would do it in a different way.
Tom Golisano
#52. The main cause of Europe's deep fall - the losses of inclusion, job satisfaction and wage growth - is the devastating slowdown of productivity that began in the late 1990s and struck large swaths of the continent. It holds down the growth of wages rates, and it depresses employment.
Edmund Phelps
#53. Unskilled and inexperienced workers are the ones most often deprived of employment opportunities by increases in the minimum wage.
Ron Paul
#54. Second, there were the discussions and drafts leading up to the White Paper on Employment Policy of 1944 in which the UK government accepted the maintenance of employment as an obligation of governmental policy.
James Meade
#55. We've never had a decline in house prices on a nationwide basis. So, what I think what is more likely is that house prices will slow, maybe stabilize, might slow consumption spending a bit. I don't think it's going to drive the economy too far from its full employment path, though.
Ben Bernanke
#56. Charity itself consists in acting justly and faithfully in whatever office, business and employment a person is engaged in.
Emanuel Swedenborg
#57. The business case for diverse employment is not a matter we can ignore. When the business case merges with values and national objectives, this serves as a wake up call for us all. We cannot ignore the opportunity; we cannot ignore the commitment.
Ofra Strauss
#58. The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.
Henry George
#59. The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
Seneca The Younger
#60. Only a small rich fringe hates Social Security for disincentivizing 80-year-olds from seeking full-time employment.
Alex Pareene
#61. I consider it a degradation and a stain on my honor to submit to baptism in order to qualify myself for state employment in Prussia.
Heinrich Heine
#62. I just think that the Europeans are depriving themselves of a high-employment economy, and they are depriving themselves of intellectual stimulation in the workplace - and personal growth - by sticking to the stultifying, rigid system that I call corporatism.
Edmund Phelps
#63. In the course of carrying through our program for which we have calculated four years, two and one-quarter million out of six million unemployed have already received employment again within a period of eight short months.
Adolf Hitler
#64. Tenure in any department is serious business, because it means, essentially, employment for life.
Michael Shermer
#65. When you are calculating an hourly labor rate, add in an additional thirty percent to that rate cover employment taxes.
James Dillehay
#66. I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent.
William Vickrey
#67. The 2013/14 storms & floods show the UK needs to invest in a climate resilient, low carbon, food secure, full employment, positive future
Phil Harding
#68. The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.
Thomas Jefferson
#69. Employment was better than idleness for men, because it kept the enemy guessing.
H.W. Brands
#70. If there's unemployment, having the government help reduce that unemployment, increase employment directly is a pretty good idea. It's not driving out competition; it's not crowding out.
Jeremy Grantham
#71. There are a great number of Mexicans who live every day worried about the lack of employment and opportunities. Those conditions also damage the image of Mexico abroad, and that is the Mexico that must be transformed.
Enrique Pena Nieto
#72. The employment rates are in very bad shape. We vastly underestimate the unemployment
Immanuel Wallerstein
#74. To develope [sic] the powers of the Creator is our proper employment - and to imitate Creativeness by combination our most exalted and self-satisfying Delight.
Mark J.P. Wolf
#75. One of the great sources of employment for people with Ph.D.s in geometry is the animation industry.
Margaret Wertheim
#76. The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be poor. She was highly literate, and she had a college degree, but after my father left, she took the first secretarial job she could find and never looked for other employment again.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
#77. Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties.
Henry David Thoreau
#78. We must pray without ceasing, in every occurrence and employment of our lives - that prayer which is rather a habit of lifting up the heart to God as in a constant communication with Him.
Elizabeth Ann Seton
#79. I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.
Lech Walesa
#80. My message is that the counterclaim - which is that if wages go up, employment will go down - is a scam. It's a con job. It's an intimidation tactic. There is absolutely no evidence anywhere that it's true. On the contrary, where you find high wages you usually find low unemployment.
Nick Hanauer
#81. That is now my mission: to provide a European vision of growth, employment, prosperity - in one word, our future.
Francois Hollande
#82. Tomorrow you'll receive your employment contracts. Once you sign those I'm your boss." When I didn't answer he said, "That means you act the way I want you to act. That means you shelve your attitude and the twenty questions."
"Should I shelve those next to 'personality'?
Samantha Young
#83. More on this in chapters 7 and 8.) Getting Value from Entrepreneurial Talent We three authors come from a business environment where the employment alliance
Reid Hoffman
#84. If I am confirmed, I am confident that my colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee and I will maintain the focus on long-term price stability as monetary policy's greatest contribution to general economic prosperity and maximum employment.
Ben Bernanke
#85. I was the chief sponsor of the Business Employment Incentive Program bill, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of direct and indirect jobs here in New Jersey.
Joseph M. Kyrillos
#86. We need to use all the resources at our disposal in order to prosper. We need more employment, and we need employment to be spread more fairly across society.
David Blunkett
#87. Worse there cannot be; a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports, by increasing which, alone, can we flatter ourselves with the prospect of finding employment for that part of our population now unemployed.
Joseph Hume
#88. Granted, not all uneducated women are prostitutes, and, not all prostitutes are uneducated. However, where building a family is employment, an uneducated woman's womb is her diploma.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#89. I first went into social services, and when I did my Ph.D. I looked at intellectual diversity rights as they apply to biological material. At the time, I never thought of what I'm doing now as a career. I thought I wouldn't find employment doing this.
Cary Fowler
#90. When providing employment becomes the end, need becomes a subordinate consideration.
Henry Hazlitt
#91. Literacy makes man a victim of advertising. Education makes him a victim of employment.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#92. One major study observed that in recent years, we have done a magnificent job of turning out fabulously trained performers with no place to play. More encouraging news is that employment options and a real strategy for developing the arts are becoming part of many conservatory curricula.
Renee Fleming
#93. Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.
Harriet Martineau
#94. The federal government was entirely complicit. When President Roosevelt passed the Social Security Act of 1935, Southern conservatives and their Northern Republican allies forced the New Deal legislation to exclude domestic workers and farmworkers from all of its employment provisions. That shielded
Timothy B. Tyson
#95. We need to make sure that joblessness never pays more than employment.
Todd Young
#96. Of course; a nurse wouldn't have been quite so bold in her speech. Not to a duke's heir. Not even to a wealthy tradesman who held the power of her employment in his too-large hands.
Courtney Milan
#98. The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
Edmund Phelps
#99. Without investment there will not be growth, and without growth there will not be employment.
Muhtar Kent
#100. In order to adapt to a changing world, we must help, or at the very least not hinder, global transformation and the concomitant socioeconomic changes: urbanization, higher educational achievement, changes in employment structures.
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