Employment Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Employment.
Top Quotes
“Unemployment”
“Job security”
“The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense.”
“And sure the Eternal Master found
The single talent well employ'd.”
“Klopsch, Louis, 1852-1910 (1896), Many Thoughts of Many Minds”
“Wikipedia: Employment”
“... If I had a one-line employment form, I'd almost say, "Are you passionate about what you do?"”
“No one ever got fired for having too much inventory, but they certainly have for running out of stock.”
“There is no intermediate state between ice and water but there is one between life and death: employment.”
“The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That’s why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.”
“Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.
• Translation: Let a man practise the profession which he best knows.”
“In the interests of the ideal of maximum output, [our society] judges men by their fitness for jobs, not jobs by their fitness for men.”
“The saddest people I know are those who have spent thirty or forty years working for the same employer doing something they almost like.”
“The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.”
“Thus Nero went up and down Greece and challenged the fiddlers at their trade. Æropus, a Macedonian king, made lanterns; Harcatius, the king of Parthia, was a mole-catcher; and Biantes, the Lydian, filed needles.”
“I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.”
“Women are encouraged to have careers because their talents are useful to the system and, more importantly, because by having regular jobs women become better integrated into the system and tied directly to it rather than to their families. This helps to weaken family solidarity.”
“The work is always there, but what men wait for is employment. It is not their fault; they have been taught for ages that it is employment and not work that counts. An employer is usually a man who has tackled the work; an employee is usually a man who is satisfied with the security of a job on another man’s work.”
“In 1970 Clarke addressed a conference based on the futuristic theme of life in the year 2000, and he envisioned a society of full unemployment: The world is heading toward “full unemployment,” Clarke said, as 99 per cent of the current human activity will be eliminated through machines, the “slaves of tomorrow.””