#Employment Quotes

“It is in the interest of the wage-earner to have many other alternatives open to him than service under one all-powerful employer called the State”

“I've never been very fully employed either.”

“It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.”

“Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.”

“The injurious agent in cigarettes comes principally from the burning paper wrapper. The substance thereby formed is called "acrolein." It has a violent action on the nerve centers, producing degeneration of the cells of the brain, which is quite rapid among boys. Unlike most narcotics, this degeneration is permanent and uncontrollable. I employ no person who smokes cigarettes.”

“I saw a sign at a gas station. It said 'help wanted'. There was another sign below it that said 'self service'. So I hired myself. Then I made myself the boss. I gave myself a raise. I paid myself. Then I quit.”

“I saw a want ad. "light housekeeping." They said "Here, change this bulb." I said "I'll need some friends."”

“I call that man idle who might be better employed.”

“An employer has no business with a man's personality... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.”

“An employer has no business with a man's personality. Employment is a specific contract calling for a specific performance... Any attempt to go beyond that is usurpation. It is immoral as well as an illegal intrusion of privacy. It is abuse of power. An employee owes no "loyalty," he owes no "love" and no "attitudes" - he owes performance and nothing else. .... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.”

“One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it.”

“The society of organizations is new-only seventy years ago employees were a small minority in every society.”

“Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants who never knew they were serfs.”

“Our society has become an employee society.”

“It can be said that there are four basic and primary things that the mass of people in a society wish for: to live in a safe environment, to be able to work and provide for themselves, to have access to good public health and to have sound educational opportunities for their children.”

“Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices.”

“If thousands are thrown out of employment, it suggests that they were not well employed. Why don't they take the hint? It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?”

“So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.”

“A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift, is approaching spiritual death.I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube. So I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor.”

“There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.”

“Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.”

“The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation.”

“Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.”

“No one gains from fair employment law and legislation if there is no employment to be had.”

“We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.”

“I am the one person who can truthfully say, I got my job through the New York Times.”

“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.”

“I've never been unemployed. I've never been very fully employed either.”

“Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.”

“Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.”

“We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.”

“It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.”

“Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.”

“If you work for a man, in heaven's name work for him, speak well of him, and stand by the institution he represents. Remember, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must growl, condemn, and eternally find fault - resign your position, and when you are outside, damn to your heart's content - but as long as you are part of the institution, do not condemn it. If you do, the first high wind that comes along will blow you away, and probably you will never know why.”

“If you work for a man, in heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply you your bread and butter, work for him speak well of him, think well of him, stand by him and stand by the institution he represents. I think if I worked for a man I would work for him. I would not work for him a part of the time, and the rest of the time work against him. I would give an undivided service or none. If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.”

“If you work for a man, in Heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply your bread and butter, work for him, stand by him, and stand by the institution he represents.”

“There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. The sternest comment that can be made against employers as a class lies in the fact that men of Ability usually succeed in showing their worth in spite of their employer, and not with his assistance and encouragement.”

“We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds.”

“I will look for a candidate, Republican or Democrat, who seems to be on the way or understands how to resolve the economic difficulties we're having, how to do something about unemployment, how to make sure that we free up our businesses and we don't over-regulate ourselves.”

“When men are employed they are best contented.”

“With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.”

“The most important thing we can do is to make sure that we are creating jobs in this country. But not just jobs, good paying jobs. Ones that can support a family.”

“Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.”

“Globalization combined with technology, combined with social media and constant information, have disrupted people's lives sometimes in very concrete ways; a manufacturing plant closes and suddenly an entire town no longer has what was the primary source of employment.”

“The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.”