36 Quotes About Employment

Work is a vital part of life, and it can be a source of stress or joy. Work can also bring out the best and worst in us. Here are some great quotes about work to help you make your workplace a more positive place to be.

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...I doubt very seriously whether anyone will hire me.' What do you mean, babe? You a fine boy with a good education.' Employers sense in me a denial of their values.' He rolled over onto his back. 'They fear me. I suspect that they can see that I am forced to function in a century I loathe. This was true even when I worked for the New Orleans Public Library. John Kennedy Toole
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Excessive forms of wealth and prolonged formal employment, no matter how well distributed, destroy the social, cultural, and environmental conditions for equal productive freedom. Ivan Illich
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Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking. John Kennedy Toole
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Work is tough for everyone but for Kyle Shannon, it's just murder. Linda Mickey
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A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to. Alain De Botton
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Workdays are, I imagine, rather like learning to ice-skate Torvill and Dean’s The Bolero. They start and end easily enough; it’s the bit in the middle that causes the pain in the arse. Fennel Hudson
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I had never considered that you might miss a job like you missed a limb -- a constant, reflexive thing. I hadn't thought as well as the obvious fears about money, and your future, losing your job would make you feel inadequate, and a bit useless. That it would be harder to get up in the morning than you were rudely shocked in to consciousness by the alarm. That you might missed the people you worked with, no matter how little you had in common with them. . Jojo Moyes
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The reason that man is seldom satisfied with his salary is that when it increases, he increases his expenses. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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The purpose of employment is not to make money Sunday Adelaja
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It is only if the primary or only reason you do what you do is to make money that you will envy every random person who made or makes a lot of money (or money that exceeds what you made or make). Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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It's love for my profession that keep me coming back, not the money. I'd work as hard to make $50.00 as I would $5, 000.00. I never scoff at an opportunity to earn a living, regardless of the size of the carrot at the end of the stick. Scott Joffe
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When we saw a destitute-looking man trying to sell worn flip-flops, I vowed never to complain about a job again. When I considered the steady paycheck and quality of life it provided, my past gripes - primarily boring meetings, back-biting office politics and pantyhose - were just whining. Kristine K. Stevens
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*I’m hustling* is a low self-esteem having man’s way of saying *I’m unemployed, * when answering a seemingly materialistic woman’s question as to what he does for a living. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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A man who will steal for me will steal from me." Theodore Roosevelt, dismissing on the spot one of his best cowhands who was about to claim for his boss an unmarked animal. David McCullough
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Thanks to his salary, an employee is free to eat whatever, wherever. However, because of his job, he is not free to eat whenever. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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A clear mission statement describes the values and priorities of an organization. Developing a mission statement compels strategists to think about the nature and scope of present operations and to assess the potential attractiveness of future markets and activities. A mission statement broadly charts the future direction of an organization. A mission statement is a constant reminder to its employees of why the organization exists and what the founders envisioned when they put their fame and fortune at risk to breathe life into their dreams. . Fred R. David
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If heaven really exists: then heaven is the job, hell is unemployment, while life is merely an interview. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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I want to make a difference. But get a job? I worry that will make the ordinary, like everybody else. Claire Messud
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Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage that many workers receive in the wake of the creation or escalation of a government-mandated minimum wage, because they lose their jobs or fail to find jobs when they enter the labor force. Making it illegal to pay less than a given amount does not make a worker’s productivity worth that amount–and, if it is not, that worker is unlikely to be employed. Thomas Sowell
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We recruit for attitude and train for skill, Atul Gawande
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He was a man who was charged with the work he did in life because he was not one to ask questions - not so much on account of any natural quality of discretion as because he simply could never think of any questions to ask.... On the strength of which he had guaranteed himself regular employment for as long as he cared to live. Douglas Adams
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It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination, ' as in ontological erasure. David Foster Wallace
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Funny thing, employment. If you keep doing it, you keep getting paid. N.K. Jemisin
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The good doctor reassured John these were people who put their psychopathy to good use. They lived productive, well-adjusted lives as surgeons, CEOs and ambulance drivers. The light bulb went on. The CSC [Correctional Service of Canada] doesn't have to go through all these gyrations to reprogram anyone, they just have to find every inmate the right job! Stephen Reid
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One cannot take a coward on dangerous missions or trust one’s fortune to a fool. How then are cowards and fools to be employed? Donald Kingsbury
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What the meaning of this period of unemployment is, now. One way to get at that definition is to ask ourselves, “What is this time for? Richard N. Bolles
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What will you do?" Eva would ask him. "I don't know, " he would say. He ruled out law, because he didn't like lawyers, and he ruled out medicine because he couldn't take the sight of blood. "What will you do?" It was only through default that the best professor I ever had became a teacher. Unknown
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Experience”, when no longer a measure of security, becomes what it is now: freely exchangeable currency. Gyan Nagpal
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Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The cover letter is all about what you want. Nasty Gal gets so many cover letters that detail a “passion for fashion” and then proceed to talk about how this job will help the applicant pursue her interests, gain more experience, and explore new avenues. If a cover letter starts out like this, I usually end up reading the first couple of sentences before hitting the delete button. Why? Because I don’t care about what a job will do for you and your personal development. I know that sounds harsh, but I don’t know you, so the fact that you want to work for my company does not automatically mean that I have an interest in helping you grow your career. I have a business that is growing by the day, so I want to know what you can do for me. It’s as simple as that. . Sophia Amoruso
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And so it had been going on week after week. Month after month. That was what was so discouraging, that it went on so endlessly. Hadn't he once believed that it was all over? The worst thing was that it went on. And on, and on, with no end in sight. Hans Fallada
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Self-employment killed the weekend. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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We are so used to working that not working is the new hard work. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Self-employed people work where they live. Entrepreneurs live where they work. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Periods are a period when nature forces prostitutes to go on leave. Mokokoma Mokhonoana