Employment Quotes - Page 11

• Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Federal Reserve's other mandate objectives of maximum sustainable employment and moderate long-term interest rates.

  Ben Bernanke

  Long, Important, Economy

  "Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress". www.federalreserve.gov. February 15, 2006.

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• With rising incomes, the share of expenditures for food products declines. The resulting shift in expenditures affects demand patterns and employment structures.

  Ernst Engel

  Demand, Patterns, Income

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• If I am confirmed, I am confident that my colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee and I will maintain the focus on long-term price stability as monetary policy's greatest contribution to general economic prosperity and maximum employment.

  Ben Bernanke

  Long, Focus, Prosperity

  "Hearing Regarding Ben Bernanke's Nomination to Be Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve". www.washingtonpost.com. November 15, 2005.

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• Worse there cannot be; a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports, by increasing which, alone, can we flatter ourselves with the prospect of finding employment for that part of our population now unemployed.

  Joseph Hume

  Country, Believe, Skills

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• The sharp employ the sharp.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.73

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• One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access to healthcare, education and employment, you lose at least half of your potential. So, gender equality and women's empowerment bring huge economic benefits.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Country, Empowerment, Benefits

  "UN Women Head Michelle Bachelet: ‘Gender Equality Is Good Business’". Interview with Elisabeth Braw, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2012.

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• And for myself, I think for the present He is calling me to another land; but how long shall be my abode, or what employment He has for me there, I know not, for I cannot think He is taking me there to live and lurk only.

  Donald Cargill

  Thinking, Land, Long

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• The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money.

  Linda Chavez

  Law, Literature, Unions

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• The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.

  Margaret Cho

  Class, Wish, Daggers

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• My mission is to put France back on its feet. The priority is employment. Efforts have to be made, but those efforts must be made fairly.

  Francois Hollande

  Feet, Effort, Priorities

  "François Hollande calls a halt to marital hostilities on Bastille Day" by Kim Willsher, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2012.

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• Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profit.

  John L. Lewis

  Investment, Communism, Institutions

  Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

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• I think that the EU with the Lisbon agenda has put the right emphasis on growth and employment.

  Angela Merkel

  Thinking, Growth, Agendas

  Interview with Bertrand Benoit, Andrew Gowers, www.ft.com. July 20, 2005.

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• The job numbers are positive. We've had more jobs created now than were lost during the recession. We're seeing that the creation, we're seeing those numbers not only grow but shift toward the private sector and shift toward full-time employment and these are all signs that the recovery is taking some hold but we're not out of woods.

  Stephen Harper

  Positive, Jobs, Recovery

  "Postmedia News" Interview, nationalpost.com. January 12, 2011.

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• What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Freedom, True Freedom

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook L 49, 1799.

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• From the viewpoint of economic democracy, the capitalism-socialism debate was a debate between private and state capitalism (i.e., the private or public employment system), and the debate was as misframed as would be a debate between the private or public ownership of slaves.

  David P. Ellerman

  Democracy, Would Be, Viewpoints

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• I don't mean to diminish the job, it's a good job and a real pressure job. But I don't think a relief pitcher should ever be the most valuable player of a league. We only play in maybe half of the games. Being a relief pitcher means part-time employment. We're bench players, and bench players shouldn't be M.V.P.

  Dan Quisenberry

  Jobs, Real, Mean

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• The man who falls in love chill find plenty of occupation.

  Ovid

  Falling In Love, Men, Occupation

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• Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.

  Edward de Bono

  Teaching, Thinking, Hours

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• More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to the margins of mainstream society, banished to a political and social space not unlike Jim Crow, where discrimination in employment, housing, and access to education was perfectly legal, and where they could be denied the right to vote.

  Michelle Alexander

  Space, Mainstream Society, Racism

  Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.58, The New Press

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• In the Great Depression, employment was not low because investment was low. Employment and investment were low because labor market institutions and industrial policies changed in a way that lowered normal employment.

  Edward C. Prescott

  Way, Normal, Great Depression

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• I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

  Dean Acheson

  Work, Office, Doe

  In Time 22 Dec. 1952

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• When some Republican governors asked to try new ways to put people on welfare back to work, the Obama Administration said they would only do it if they had a credible plan to increase employment by 20%. You hear that? More work. So the claim that President Obama weakened welfare reform's work requirement is just not true.

  William J. Clinton

  People, Trying, President

  "Bill Clinton Speech Text: Read The Former President’s Democratic Convention Remarks", www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• And affirmative action is a very nice term for racial discrimination against better-qualified white people in jobs, employment, promotions and scholarships, and college admittance.

  David Duke

  Jobs, Nice, College

  "David Duke's View Of An Obama Presidency". Interview with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. October 31, 2008.

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• People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment

  Claudia Black

  People, Unemployment, Actors

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• As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.

  Susan Faludi

  Facts, Injustice, Mental Health

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: the undeclared war against American women”, Crown Pub

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