Employment Quotes

• Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Government, Home Economics, Form

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I pay low wages. I can take advantage of that. We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage, low-benefit model of employment.

  Sam Walton

  Success, Greed, Wages

  "Why Google Is Like Wal-Mart". "Wired", April 21, 2005.

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• Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.

  Galen

  Health, Physicians, Essentials

  "Day's Collacon: an Encyclopaedia of Prose Quotations". Book by Edward Parsons Day, p. 223, 1884.

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• Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.

  Jay Samit

  Luxury, Lifelong Learning, Lifelong

  Jay Samit (2015). “Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation”, p.64, Macmillan

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• The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Positive, Happiness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.422

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• Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wise, Politics, Honest

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• And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of peace they knew nothing, and had never engaged in any employment higher than war.

  Aristotle

  Art, War, Long

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.68, Aristotle

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• The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.

  Henry George

  Men, Giving, Suffering

  Henry George, William Saunders, Francis George Shaw (1900). “Social problems”

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• Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'

  Peter Drucker

  Expectations, Clerks, Needs

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in Turbulent Times”, p.25, Routledge

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• I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment.

  Lee Child

  Stay Strong, Corporate, Felt

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• Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.

  Laura Riding

  Running, Art, People

  "Anarchism Is Not Enough". Book by Laura Riding. Chapter: "The Myth", 1928.

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• A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it.

  Aristotle

  Exercise, Association, Politics

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• Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way.

  Jesse Ventura

  Business, Government, Hands

  Jesse Ventura (2000). “I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up”, p.30, Villard

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• Observe a method in the distribution of your time. Every hour will then know its proper employment, and no time will be lost

  George Horne

  Time, Hours, Lost

  George Horne, William Jones (1831). “The works of the Right Reverend George Horne ...: to which are prefixed memoirs of his life, studies, and writings”, p.292

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• To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.

  Hans Rosling

  School, Opportunity, Rights

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• There is no more certain way to deter employment than to harass and penalize employers.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Philosophy, Political, Way

  Henry Hazlitt (2010). “Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics”, p.222, Crown Business

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• People should wake up in the morning and say 'I am not a job seeker, I am a job-creator.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Morning, Jobs, Work

  FaceBook post by Muhammad Yunus from Dec 05, 2012

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• We may not be able to offer long-term employment, but we should try to offer long-term employability.

  Brian Corby

  Long, Trying, May

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• Most so-called women's work is not recognized as real activity. One reason for this attitude may be that such work is usually associated with helping others' development, rather than with self-enhancement or self-employment.

  Jean Baker Miller

  Attitude, Real, Helping Others

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• Full employment does not mean literally no unemployment; that is to say, it does not mean that every man and woman in the country who is fit and free for work is employed productively every day of his or her working life ... Full employment means that unemployment is reduced to short intervals of standing by, with the certainty that very soon one will be wanted in one's old job again or will be wanted in a new job that is within one's powers.

  William Beveridge

  Country, Jobs, Mean

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• I come from a really lovely, really smart family where the only stress was money and employment.

  Paul Schneider

  Smart, Stress, Lovely

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.

  Seneca the Younger

  Vices, Active, Idleness

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• The ancient nobility and gentry of the kingdom... have been thrust out of all public employment... a race of merchants, and manufacturers and bankers and loan-jobbers and contractors have usurped their place.

  William Cobbett

  Race, Bankers, Kingdoms

  Political Register, July 10-17, 1802.

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• The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away. In this book we are concerned with how to create mass organizations to seize power and give it to the people; to realize the democratic dream of equality, justice, peace, cooperation, equal and full opportunities for education, full and useful employment, health, and the creation of those circumstances in which man can have the chance to live by values that give meaning to life.

  Saul Alinsky

  Dream, Book, Opportunity

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.3, Vintage

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• Without investment there will not be growth, and without growth there will not be employment.

  Muhtar Kent

  Growth, Investment

  "Coca-Cola CEO: Act to fix unemployment" by Ramy Inocencio, www.cnn.com. February 6, 2013.

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