Quotes about Employment

Their objectives included the elimination of Birmingham's rigid segregation. They wanted the right to vote. They wanted jobs and the ability to try on clothes in all the places where they shopped. They wanted public schools opened to all children without regard to the color of their skin.

Monday at 9 A.M. is when people start their workweek," Joy said passionately. "Think about that, George. People would rather die than go to work

When I became minister for employment, that was my ideal job because it meant I was able to reflect on what I saw growing up and actually try to change it.

Computer science … jobs should be way more interesting than even going to Wall Street or being a lawyer--or, I can argue, than anything but perhaps biology, and there it's just a tie.

We know when we are misemployed. We know when our talents and efforts are being misappropriated. What we don't know is how open our supervisors are to hearing about it. As a result of this assignment we made some significant changes that brought about better alignment for the entire staff. Furthermore, we stumbled upon a new tool by which to uncover what our people were thinking and feeling.

Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.

The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice.

In my early teens, I was a janitor. In high school, I got up early to deliver to accounts that required early service.

The Puritan divine Richard Steele wrote, God doth call every man and woman…to serve him in some peculiar employment in this world, both for their own and the common good.…The Great Governor of the world hath appointed to every man his proper post and province.

Ah, if only one had work of one's own, proper work, decent work—not forced upon one by the griping of one's belly!

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.