Employment famous quotes
07-19-2025
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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 -
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 -
With rising incomes, the share of expenditures for food products declines. The resulting shift in expenditures affects demand patterns and employment structures.
-- Ernst Engel -
There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.
-- Fareed Zakaria -
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 -
We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
That is now my mission: to provide a European vision of growth, employment, prosperity - in one word, our future.
-- Francois Hollande -
Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.
-- Galen -
Even a wizard would have a great deal of difficulty repealing the economic law that higher minimum wages reduce employment. Since politicians are not wizards, they should not try.
-- Gary Becker -
What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg -
Observe a method in the distribution of your time. Every hour will then know its proper employment, and no time will be lost
-- George Horne -
Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man
-- George Washington -
As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it.
-- George Washington -
If the Bible will not give eternal benefits to homosexuals, if they cannot inherit the kingdom of God, why, Klingenschmitt asked, on this world, should they get bonus pay or employment benefits?
-- Gordon Klingenschmitt -
My job in Congress is to identify projects with federal or some other public component and then to push developers to provide employment opportunities to neighborhood residents.
-- Hakeem Jeffries -
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 -
Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.
-- Harriet Martineau -
There is no more certain way to deter employment than to harass and penalize employers.
-- Henry Hazlitt -
Prolonged inflation never 'stimulates' the economy. On the contrary, it unbalances, disrupts, and misdirects production and employment.
-- Henry Hazlitt -
Desperation is the secret to my steady employment. I am not interested in downtime. I really like to keep working all the time and I always feel like I'm in the mail room of life; working up.
-- Henry Rollins -
Tomorrow, the market will probably continue upward driven by the dollar, but it won't go up much because of caution before the employment figures.
-- Hugh S. Johnson -
As the president of Kosovo, I am more concerned about the current situation with the employment standing at around 70 % of the population, which is young, with great potential, speaking many foreign languages and having wide expertise.
-- Ibrahim Rugova -
The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
-- J. Paul Getty -
... giving tax incentives for more labor ownership of company stock will do more to create jobs and increase productivity than all the "emergency full employment" bills proposed.
-- Jack Kemp -
The inscrutability [of economics] is perhaps not unintentional. It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges or, at very worst, swindlers and tricksters.
-- Jack Vance -
I never put myself out there as an employment agency,
-- Jack Welch -
Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past.
-- Jacques Delors -
It is not part of the functions of the national government to find employment for people and if we were to appropriate a hundred millions for this purpose, we should be taxing forty millions of people to keep a few thousand employed.
-- James A. Garfield -
If these assets were set up as a revolving fund with which Japan could import raw materials for its industries, Japanese exports could again enter the channels of world trade-and Japanese workers would have employment and something to eat.
-- James Forrestal -
To provide employment for the poor, and support for the indigent, is among the primary, and, at the same time, not least difficult cares of the public authority.
-- James Madison -
Constructive destruction is one of the most delightful employments in the world, and in civilized life the opportunities for it are only too rare.
-- Jan Struther -
Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not,
-- Janet Yellen -
Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously.
-- Janet Yellen -
My bottom line is that monetary policy should react to rising prices for houses or other assets only insofar as they affect the central bank's goal variables - output, employment, and inflation.
-- Janet Yellen -
I'm just opposed to a pure inflation-only mandate in which the only thing a central bank cares about is inflation and not employment.
-- Janet Yellen -
The full employment situation reinforces itself.
-- Jared Bernstein -
Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.
-- Jay Samit -
Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their pleasure ... There is no taste which deserves the epithet good, unless it be the taste for such employments which, to the pleasure actually produced by them, conjoin some contingent or future utility: there is no taste which deserves to be characterized as bad, unless it be a taste for some occupation which has mischievous tendency.
-- Jeremy Bentham -
I was the chief sponsor of the Business Employment Incentive Program bill, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of direct and indirect jobs here in New Jersey.
-- Joe Kyrillos -
When you raise the price of employment, guess what happens? You get less of it. Why do we want to make it harder for small employers to hire people?
-- John Boehner -
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith -
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 -
The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.
-- John Maynard Keynes -
Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past.
-- John Thorn -
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 -
The usage of the words "public" and "public sphere" betrays a multiplicity of concurrent meanings. Their origins go back to various historical phases and, when applied synchronically to the conditions of a bourgeois society that is industrially advanced and constituted as a social-welfare state, they fuse into a clouded amalgam. Yet the very conditions that make the inherited language seem inappropriate appear to require these words, however confused their employment.
-- Jurgen Habermas -
When it came time to find employment, I set my sights on becoming an engineer at a home electronics manufacturer, a field that was closely related to my major at university.
-- Koichi Tanaka -
I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment.
-- Lee Child -
Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule.
-- Lois Lowry -
The idea that full employment without property ownership will solve the world's problems is utter nonsense. The Keynesian concept that the function of capital is merely to amplify labor, not independently produce wealth is simply blindness.
-- Louis O. Kelso -
No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer at some close in-door employment.
-- Lucy Larcom -
Let nobody be fooled, the next two quarters are not going to be easy either in terms of growth or employment.
-- Luis de Guindos -
I am not satisfied in making money for myself. I endeavor to provide employment for hundreds of the women of my race.
-- Madam C. J. Walker -
As a result of Obamacare, we are becoming something of a part-time employment country.
-- Maria Bartiromo -
So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.
-- Mark Twain -
Ah, what a sweetner of toil is love—love to a dear earthly parent, and still more love to Christ. There is no drudgery in the most menial employment where that is the motive power.
-- Martha Finley -
...trifling employments have rendered woman a trifler.
-- Mary Wollstonecraft -
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 -
Without investment there will not be growth, and without growth there will not be employment.
-- Muhtar Kent -
Funny thing, employment. If you keep doing it, you keep getting paid.
-- N.K. Jemisin -
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 -
The Indians, however, could not migrate from one part of the United States to another; neither could they obtain employment as readily as white people, either upon or beyond the Indian reservations.
-- Nelson A. Miles -
The education of youth, an employment of more consequence than making laws and preaching the gospel, because it lays the foundation on which both law and gospel rest for success.
-- Noah Webster -
This is also why it is wrong to treat God as a grand employment agency, a celestial executive searcher to find perfect fits for our perfect gifts. The truth is not that God is finding a place for our gifts but that God has created us and our gifts for a place of his choosing – and we will only be ourselves when we are finally there.
-- Os Guinness -
We are the only species on this planet without full employment.
-- Paul Hawken -
[W]e have a lot of evidence on what happens when you raise the minimum wage. And the evidence is overwhelmingly positive: Hiking the minimum wage has little or no adverse effect on employment while significantly increasing workers' earnings.
-- Paul Krugman -
If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be at full employment already.
-- Paul Ryan -
You cannot be pro-jobs and anti-business at the same time. You cannot love employment and hate employers.
-- Paul Tsongas -
One of the most striking trends, since at least the 1960's, has been for employment in services to grow far more rapidly than employment in manufacturing. It is this trend that has led to the view that developed economies have become de-industrialized and that they are now effectively service economies.
-- Peter Dicken -
The company is not and must never claim to be home, family, religion, life or fate for the individual. It must never interfere in his private life or his citizenship. He is tied to the company through a voluntary and cancellable employment contract, not through some mystical or indissoluble bond.
-- Peter Drucker -
Selling scent is a key job for celebrities. At any one time, there'll be hundreds of them at it, going on the world's talk shows, doing photo-shoots, providing employment for thousands. Celebrities are instant brands.
-- Peter York
