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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• 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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• 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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• Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hipster

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• We have employments assigned to us for every circumstance in life. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in the family, our tempers; and in company, our tongues.

  Hannah More

  Life, Watches, Tongue

  Hannah More (1811). “Practical piety, or, The influence of religion of the heart on the conduct of the life”, p.47

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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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• Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Negativity, Sorrow, Antidote

  Ann Radcliffe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)”, p.1093, Delphi Classics

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• Health is more than the absence of disease. Health is about jobs and employment, education, the environment, and all of those things that go into making us healthy.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Jobs, Healthy, Disease

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• Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.

  Seneca the Younger

  Indolence, Stagnation

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• The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense.

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Effort, Littles

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Four Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth”, p.197, Bantam Classics

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• When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.

  Jesse Jackson

  Determination, Self, Entrepreneurship

  Interview With Douglas Foster, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2000.

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• A vast deal of human sympathy runs along the electric line of needlework, stretching from the throne to the wicker chair of the humble seamstress.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Running, Humble, Thrones

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• Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Business, Men

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.129, Courier Corporation

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• Women are in this respect more fortunate than men, that most of their employments are of such a nature that they can at the same time be thinking of quite different things.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Men, Thinking, Different

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• Nothing can hide from me the conviction that an immortal soul needs for its sustenance something more than visiting, and gardening, and novel-reading, and crochet-needle, and the occasional manufacture of sponge cake.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Reading, Cake, Soul

  Thomas Wentworth HIGGINSON (1854). “Woman and her Wishes, etc. ... Second edition, with an appendix”, p.7

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• Laziness begat wearisomeness, and this put men in quest of diversions, play and company, on which however it is a constant attendant; he who works hard, has enough to do with himself otherwise.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Hard Work, Men, Play

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• Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wall, Work, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2002). “The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau: Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde”, p.283, North Point Press

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• Financial struggle is often the direct result of people working all their lives for someone else.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Money, Business

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Nov 09, 2012

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• When employers no longer offer secure full-time employment with benefits, then it's hard to expect employees to be loyal, engaged, and maximally productive.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  Benefits, Loyal, Employers

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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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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• A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Business, Hard Work, Starting Up

  "Mina Bekheet - Cofounder of Oxford Biotech". Enterprising Oxford interview, www.eship.ox.ac.uk.

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• Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Happiness, Affair, Advantage

  Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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• I do believe that, under the law, under the Constitution of the United States, and under our public policy, that women deserve and should have a right to enjoy equal employment opportunity.

  Gloria Allred

  Believe, Opportunity, Should Have

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