Quotes about Employment

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.

As I have often said, governments don't produce economic growth, people do.

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.

It's all in the day's work.

First and foremost, we have to ensure that we have to get our own kids ready for work so that employers want to take them on.

Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.