Quotes about Employment

In my early teens, I was a janitor. In high school, I got up early to deliver to accounts that required early service.

The Puritan divine Richard Steele wrote, God doth call every man and woman…to serve him in some peculiar employment in this world, both for their own and the common good.…The Great Governor of the world hath appointed to every man his proper post and province.

Ah, if only one had work of one's own, proper work, decent work—not forced upon one by the griping of one's belly!

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

As I have often said, governments don't produce economic growth, people do.

Well, yes, I've fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. But I have fired many people.

It's all in the day's work.

Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.

a lesson from past over-machined societies which you appear not to have learned. The devices themselves condition the users to employ each other the way they employ machines.

I think the best possible social program is a job

The art of communicating instruction, of whatever kind, is much to be valued; and I have ever thought that those who devote themselves to this employment, and do their duty with diligence and success, are entitled to very high respect from the community, as Johnson himself often maintained. Yet I am of opinion that the greatest abilities are not only not required for this office, but render a man less fit for it.