Quotes about Employment

If there is unemployment in America, it is because the unemployed do not want to work.

In my opinion it's a shame that there is so much work in the world. One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours — all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

The fact that a piece of work is now being done by nine men which used to be done by ten men does not mean that the tenth man is unemployed. He is merely not employed on that work, and the public is not carrying the burden of his support by paying more than it ought on that work—for after all, it is the public that pays!

To read the Bible is of itself a laudable occupation and can scarcely fail of being a useful employment of time; but the habit of reflecting upon what you have read is equally essential as than of reading itself, to give it all the efficacy of which it is susceptible.

The young are in great danger. Much evil results from their light and trifling reading. Much time is lost which should be spent in useful employment. Some would even deprive themselves of sleep that they might finish some ridiculous love story.

The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'

We must never forget the value of work because without it people are denied a sense of dignity and of community.

Technocracy wants to do everything by machinery. Machinery is doing just fine. If it can't kill you, it will put you out of work.

My administration will put our coal miners and our steel workers back to work.

It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.

I am always for the man who wishes to work.

Let's get unemployed Americans off the welfare and back to work in their own country.