Quotes and Sayings About Employment
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Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society which he has in view. But the study of his own advantage naturally, or rather necessarily, leads him to prefer that employment which is most advantageous to society... He intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was not part of his intention
-- Adam Smith -
If we guarantee employment for some, we jeopardize employment for everyone.
-- Albert J. Dunlap -
You will already have noticed how often Capablanca repeated moves, often returning to positions which he had had before. This is not lack of deciciveness or slowness, but the employment of a basic endgame principle which is 'Do not hurry'.
-- Alexander Kotov -
I think that the EU with the Lisbon agenda has put the right emphasis on growth and employment.
-- Angela Merkel -
I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment.
-- Angelina Grimke -
Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.
-- Ann Radcliffe -
There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.
-- Anne Bronte -
With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.
-- Barack Obama -
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 -
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 -
Our mission, as set forth by the Congress is a critical one: to preserve price stability, to foster maximum sustainable growth in output and employment, and to promote a stable and efficient financial system that serves all Americans well and fairly.
-- Ben Bernanke -
We’ve never had a decline in house prices on a nationwide basis. So, what I think what is more likely is that house prices will slow, maybe stabilize, might slow consumption spending a bit. I don’t think it’s going to drive the economy too far from its full employment path, though.
-- Ben Bernanke -
No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
To engage in experiments on heat was always one of my most agreeable employments.
-- Benjamin Thompson -
Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment.
-- Bob Black -
We may not be able to offer long-term employment, but we should try to offer long-term employability.
-- Brian Corby -
Let all our employment be to know GOD: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him. And as knowledge is commonly the measure of love, the deeper and more extensive our knowledge shall be, the greater will be our love: and if our love of GOD were great, we should love Him equally in pains and pleasures.
-- Brother Lawrence -
Let all our employment be to know God: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him.
-- Brother Lawrence -
Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.
-- Buzz Aldrin -
This life is only one of a series of lives which our incarnated part has lived. I have little doubt of our having pre-existed; and that also in the time of our pre-existence we were actively employed. So, therefore, I believe in our active employment in a future life, and I like the thought.
-- Charles George Gordon -
What an exciting super-tomorrow it will be! Americans are today making the greatest scientific developments in our history. That is a promise of new levels of employment, industrial activity and human happiness.
-- Clarence Francis -
Evidence for or against God, if it is there, saturates every moment of the experience of existence, every employment of reason, every act of consciousness, every encounter with the world around us.
-- David Bentley Hart -
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 -
During the period of capital moving from one employment to another, the profits on that to which capital is flowing will be relatively high, but will continue so no longer than till the requisite capital is obtained.
-- David Ricardo -
The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working in different mediums. A lot of actors work in theater, film, and television, because there's not much opportunity in terms of employment there.
-- Deborah Mailman -
We cannot hope to achieve full employment and sustain it until we have mastered inflation.
-- Denis Healey -
So, Mr. President, what is wrong with the fair employment practice bill?
-- Dennis Chavez -
...vicinity to the sea is desirable, because it is easier to do nothing by the sea than anywhere else, and because bathing and basking on the shore cannot be considered an employment but only an apotheosis of loafing. ("Expiation")
-- E.F. Benson -
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