Employment Quotes - Page 2

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

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hipster

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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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• We need to make sure that joblessness never pays more than employment.

  Todd Young

  Needs, Pay, Joblessness

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• Employment and hardships prevent melancholy.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hardship, Melancholy

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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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• Stable growth ensures employment.

  Li Keqiang

  Growth, Stable

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• In our industry today only a strong company with a global reach can ensure long-term employment and provide acceptable returns for shareholders.

  Lakshmi

  Motivational, Strong, Long

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• No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Teamwork, Business, Independent

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• Fairness does not require the redistribution of wealth;
  it requires the creation of wealth, geared to an economy
  that can provide employment for everyone able and willing to work.

  Felix Rohatyn

  Equality, Able, Doe

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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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• 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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• 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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• Gender equality and empowerment of women is key to the success of the Millennium Development Goals. Not only as a specific target, but for the goals in general. Women bear a heavier burden of the world's poverty than men, because of the discrimination they face in education, health care, employment and control of assets.

  Johanna Sigurðardottir

  Men, Keys, Goal

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• The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

  J. Paul Getty

  Leadership, Wisdom, Business

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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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• Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.

  Seneca the Younger

  Indolence, Stagnation

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• What most Americans mean when they say "the end of the recession" is, "When will it be back to normal? When can we get jobs? When will the employment rate be back to 4 percent or 5 percent?"

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Jobs, Mean, Normal

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. May 27, 2011.

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