Employment Quotes - Page 13

• In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic. All of us, from the Governor of the Bank of England downwards, are now primarily interested in preserving the stability of business, prices, and employment, and are not likely, when the choice is forced on us, deliberately to sacrifice these to outworn dogma, which had its value once, of 3 pounds, 17 shill ings, 10 1/2 pence per ounce. Advocates of the ancient standard do not observe how remote it now is from the spirit and the requirements of the age. A regulated nonmetallic standard has slipped in unnoticed. It exists.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Sacrifice, Choices, Age

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in persuasion”

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• The impact of QE on generating more lending by Wall Street to Main Street and in generating more employment and increasing overall investment in the economy is quite modest. QE probably limited the initial collapse of the economy in 2008, and likely had a very small positive impact on economic growth, but its broader impact on jobs and growth in the economy seems not very big.

  Gerald Epstein

  Jobs, Wall, Impact

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In the days of Ram Mohan Roy when English education was introduced in this country, the Mahomedans did not accept it... They did not accept English education and at the same time they were divorced from the culture which their fathers had advanced. The result was that whereas the Hindus got on in life, got into government employment, got many things which people value in life, the Mahomedans were left without it and gradually there came to be a sort of estrangement between the two nationalities at the time of the Swadeshi movement.

  Chittaranjan Das

  Country, Father, Government

  "Collected Works of Deshbandhu" by Manindra Dutta, 1917.

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• Capitalism with near-full employment was an impressive spectacle. But a growth in wealth is not at all the same thing as reducing poverty. A universal paean was raised in praise of growth. Growth was going to solve all problems. No need to bother about poverty. Growth will lift up the bottom and poverty will disappear without any need to pay attention to it. The economists, who should have known better, fell in with the same cry.

  Joan Robinson

  Should Have, Growth, Needs

  Joan Robinson (2014). “Contributions to Modern Economics”, p.9, Academic Press

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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. Idleness will be shut out at every avenue, and with her that numerous body of vices that make up her train.

  Thomas Hartwell Horne

  Time, Vices, Body

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• I never put myself out there as an employment agency.

  Jack Welch

  Agency, Fiasco

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• Financial institutions are not being bailed out as a favor to them or their stockholders. In fact, stockholders have come out worse off after some bailouts. The real point is to avoid a major contraction of credit that could cause major downturns in output and employment, ruining millions of people, far beyond the financial institutions involved. If it was just a question of the financial institutions themselves, they could be left to sink or swim. But it is not.

  Thomas Sowell

  Real, People, Swim

  "A Political "Solution": Part II" by Thomas Sowell, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 23, 2008.

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• Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans. Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination - employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of food stamps and other public benefits, and exclusion from jury service - are suddenly legal.

  Michelle Alexander

  Educational, Opportunity, African American

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In working on any one problem, such as higher minimum wages, so many other issues come into play, such as some businesses possibly closing down, thus creating fewer jobs and more unemployment and incentivizing companies to import more goods from abroad, which leads to even less employment at home, and so on.

  Philip Kotler

  Jobs, Home, Play

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Macroeconomic stability will be more elusive and that will affect all of our lives: from the risks many will face in childhood, to the security of employment at working age, to the challenge of accumulating for retirement. More financial instability will introduce more uncertainty all down the line, and that will be a very different world than the one we would have lived in only a couple of decades ago.

  Alan M. Taylor

  Retirement, Couple, Childhood

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In work consists the true pride of life; grounded in active employment, though early ardor may abate, it never degenerates into indifference, and age lives in perennial youth. Life is a weariness only to the idle, or where the soul is empty.

  Leopold Hartley Grindon

  Work, Pride, Soul

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• It should console us for the fact that sin has not totally disappeared from the world, that the saints are not wholly deprived of employment.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Saint, World, Facts

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.28

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• If all men and women were kept at some useful employment there would be less sorrow and wickedness in the world.

  Dorothy Nevill

  Work, Men, Sorrow

  Lady Dorothy Nevill (1912). “My own times”

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• There are a great number of Mexicans who live every day worried about the lack of employment and opportunities. Those conditions also damage the image of Mexico abroad, and that is the Mexico that must be transformed.

  Enrique Pena Nieto

  Opportunity, Numbers, Mexico

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• Charity itself consists in acting justly and faithfully in whatever office, business and employment a person is engaged in.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Office, Acting, Charity

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1855). “The True Christian Religion: Containing the Universal Theology of the New Church, Foretold by the Lord in Daniel, VII, 13, 14, and in the Apocalypse, XXI. 1,2. Translated from the Latin”, p.452

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• Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador lived through times of cruel and ruthless capitalism where the workers, the masses of the population, saw themselves living in a precarious state of employment and subsistence conditions. The impact of this reality took hold and impacted the evolution of the social situation of those countries and even though that produced movements that were not exactly political movements but social movements.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Country, Reality, Impact

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• There may be few instances in which the superstition that only measurable magnitudes can be important has done positive harm in the economic field: but the present inflation and employment problems are a very serious one.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Important, May, Superstitions

  Friedrich August von Hayek's Prize Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1974.

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• For the rest of your life you must check the box on employment applications asking the dreaded question: "Have you ever been convicted of a felony?" And once you check that box, the odds are sky high that your application is going straight to the trash. Hundreds of professional licenses are off-limits to people convicted of felonies.

  Michelle Alexander

  Odds, Sky, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Actors, Term, And Off

  "10 Questions for Buzz Aldrin". Time Magazine Interview, content.time.com. September 6, 2007.

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• The history of reform is always identical; it is the comparison of the idea with the fact. Our modes of living are not agreeable to our imagination. We suspect they are unworthy. We arraign our daily employments.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ideas, Imagination, Facts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1180, Delphi Classics

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• Another technique for fending off suffering is the employment of the displacements of libido which our mental apparatus permits of and through which its function gains so much in flexibility. The task here is that of shifting the instinctual aims in such a way that they cannot come up against frustration from the external world.

  Sigmund Freud

  Frustration, Suffering, Technique

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• My father had a couple of kids at the beginning of the Depression. There was not much employment. Not much welfare. People barely got by. People were tougher then.

  Clint Eastwood

  Couple, Father, Kids

  "Clint Eastwood: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2008.

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• Reconciliation will not work if it puts a higher value on symbolic gestures and overblown promises rather than the practical needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in areas like health, housing, education and employment.

  Warren Mundine

  Promise, Needs, Gestures

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• The model for our early bankruptcy laws was Deuteronomy, the idea that, under certain circumstances - in Deuteronomy, it is simply the passage of seven years' time - people are released from debt, simply because they are released from debt. No more debt. You start over again. This has been a very powerful model in this country. It's being destroyed now. People talk about how much new employment, new wealth, and so on are continuously generated in this country.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Country, Powerful, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sorrow, Safe, Antidote

  Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.249

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