Employment Quotes

We propose to hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. And we do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.

At least half of the popular fallacies about economics come from assuming that economic activity is a zero-sum game, in which what is gained by someone is lost by someone else. But transactions would not continue unless both sides gained, whether in international trade, employment, or renting an apartment.

The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of a poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his hands, and to hinder him from employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper, without injury to his neighbour, is a plain violation of this most sacred property.

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fibre. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit. It is inimical to the dictates of sound policy. It is in violation of the traditions of America. Work must be found for able-bodied but destitute workers. The Federal Government must and shall quit this business of relief.

He who is idle shall not eat the bread nor wear the garments of the laborer

I got hired by the Cards when I was 21, and I could handle the job, but for the most part, I got hired because I was somebody's kid. When you start that way, you have a lot to prove.

The first duty of this government is to give the workers work.

Well, yes, I've fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. But I have fired many people.

Work was always a part of my life.

Floridians are a strong, resilient people. We are fortunate to live in a great state where all Floridians enjoy opportunities to get a great job and a world-class education.

Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanics, so the most heroick sentiments will lose their efficacy

Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.

I'm still working for the government.

Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.

Poor people don’t employ people; only rich people do.

If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

I love working in America, I love being part of the industry out here.

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

The great question will forever remain, who shall work?

I had a great job with the Knicks.

Every step that produces a single job for a currently unemployed European should be taken. Every centimetre of red tape that puts someone out of work must be torn up.

Power over a man's support is a power over his will.

For me, it is all about people having jobs, and that is why I make no apology for having focused relentlessly on employment and job creation.