Quotes about Employment
The devil never tempted a man whom he found judiciously employed.
- Charles Spurgeon
No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between a man and a plot of land.
- Henry Ford
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.
- Henry Ford
You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
- George Bernard Shaw
To deny a man a job is to say that a man has no right to exist.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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.
- Herbert Hoover
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.
- Muhammad Ali
The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.
- Robert Frost
If you own a butcher shop, don't hire vegetarians. To hire the right people, you have to let the wrong people go.
- Robert Kiyosaki
If you need to conceal your true nature to get in the door, understand that you'll probably have to conceal your true nature to keep that job.
- Seth Godin
There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.
- Henry Ward Beecher
I am the one person who can truthfully say, I got my job through the New York Times.
- John F. Kennedy