Quotes about Employment

I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.

For example, if you need a job, you can go look for one. That is something that you can do, and if you do it, then God will help you get the right job. You cannot make a company hire you, but God can change the heart of the king (those in charge) even as He changes the course of the water flowing in rivers (Proverbs 21:1).

At present we have no clear grasp of the principle that every man should do the work for which he is fitted by nature!

What a shocking set of crooks these English servants are! Not even murder will turn them from their feudal devotion to the man who pays!

Ebonics is not a separate language. It is ghetto speech and substandard English. To claim that ebonics is a positive way of communicating for blacks is to condemn blacks to menial jobs and economic inferiority. A person who fails to learn correct language skills is forever handicapped in seeking employment.

The devil never tempted a man whom he found judiciously employed.

No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between a man and a plot of land.

We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage.

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

To deny a man a job is to say that a man has no right to exist.

The ancient bitter opposition to improved methods [of production] on the ancient theory that it more than temporarily deprives men of employment... has no place in the gospel of American progress.

I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer, anything but a fighter. In this trade, it's the managers that make the money and last the longest.