Quotes about Employment

One corporate executive faced this spiritual crisis and went on a pilgrimage to Calcutta, India, to seek the advice of Mother Teresa. She spoke sharply with him. She told him to go back home to Wisconsin and be a good CEO so that his company might prosper and keep many people gainfully employed. "Bloom where you're planted," she told him, so that in Milwaukee the Missionaries of Charity would never find "the poorest of the poor.

The longer our graduation lines are today, the shorter our unemployment lines will be tomorrow.

I hope that if you are employed full-time, you are doing it to ensure that basic needs are met and not simply to indulge a taste for an elaborate home, fancy cars, and other luxuries.

Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.

The richest people in the world build networks; everyone else is trained to look for work.

If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.

By the same token, as a remote worker, you shouldn't let employers get away with paying you less just because you live in a cheaper city. "Equal pay for equal work" might be a dusty slogan, but it works for a reason. If with regard to compensation you accept being treated as a second-class worker based on location, you're opening the door to being treated poorly on other matters as well.

The right time to hire is when there's more work than you can handle for a sustained period of time.

Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there?

Most single moms are very poor, uneducated, can't get a job, and if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death and never have health care. And that's the story that we're not seeing, and it's unfortunate that we glorify and glamorize the idea of out of children wedlock.