Jobs Quotes
“Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs… since the payment is pure love” — Mildred B. Vermont
“I have introduced legislation that would invest $1 trillion over 5 years to modernize our country’s physical infrastructure. This would create and maintain at least 13 million good-paying jobs” — Bernie Sanders
“We’re lending money we don’t have to kids who can’t pay it back to train them for jobs that no longer exist. That’s nuts” — Mike Rowe
“The finance industry creates 4% of jobs, but takes 25% of the profits in corporate America” — Rana Foroohar
“The American economy and much of the world was plunged into the worst economic decline since the 1930s. Working people lost their jobs, their homes and their savings, while the government bailed out the banks” — Bernie Sanders
“In my first 100 days, we will work with both parties to pass the biggest investment in new, good-paying jobs since World War II. Jobs in manufacturing, clean energy, technology and innovation, small business, and infrastructure. If we invest in infrastructure now, we’ll not only create jobs today, but lay the foundation for the jobs of the future” — Hillary Clinton
“For too long, a small group in our nation’s capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost. Washington flourished, but the people did not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered, but the jobs left. And the factories closed” — Donald Trump
“Don’t take vacations. What’s the point? If you’re not enjoying your work, you’re in the wrong job — Think Like A Billionaire” — Donald Trump
“When I showed Mom the money for the rent and told her I had a regular job singing for eighteen dollars a week, she could hardly believe it” — Billie Holiday
“I’ve been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my modeling career, but I have never taken one of them. I have to refuse that money, because I’m not going to work against my people. They’ve suffered enough” — Naomi Campbell
“If you really believe that you’re making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets, why would you not spend the money?” — Michael Bloomberg
“At the same time that women in the U.S. are losing their jobs at higher numbers than men, women have lower earnings and fewer savings to fall back on during the economic downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic” — Donna Brazile
“Don’t knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?” — Laurence J. Peter
“The way we’re really going to grow the economy is to invest in people, to invest in innovation, to have the federal government put money in the kind of research that will create the new high-technology, bio-technology industries that will create the millions of new jobs” — Joe Lieberman
“And I think the more money you put in people’s hands, the more they will spend. And if they don’t spend it, they invest it. And investing it is another way of creating jobs. It puts money into mutual funds or other kinds of banks that can go out and make loans, and we need to do that” — Michael Bloomberg
“The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security” — Carl Levin
“Small businesses provide 75 percent of new U.S. jobs and are the backbone of our economy, and no outdated ban should be keeping small business owners from collecting the same interest their money could earn if it were held by an individual” — Sue Kelly
“Corporations don’t create jobs, customers do. So when all the economic gains go to the top, as they’re doing now, the vast majority of Americans don’t have enough purchasing power to buy the things corporations want to sell — which means businesses stop creating enough jobs” — Robert Reich
“Jobs fill your pocket. Adventures fill your soul” — Jaime Lyn Beatty
“Nearly 40 million Americans have now lost their jobs due to coronavirus, yet Leader McConnell tells them to just ‘take a pause’” — Nancy Pelosi
“Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs” — Bill Gates
“You’re MUCH more than your job description or your age or your income or your output” — Fred Rogers
“You’re MUCH more than your job description or your age or your income or your output” — Fred Rogers
“And if your train’s on time You can get to work by nine And start your slaving job to get your pay” — Bachman Turner Overdrive
“If you love your job, you haven’t worked a day in your life” — Tommy Lasorda
“Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it” — Charley Pride
“Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it” — Ellen Goodman
“My dad used to say: Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity” — Joe Biden
“People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition” — Bob Nelson
“I think a person who takes a job in order to live, that is to say, just for the money, has turned himself into a slave” — Joseph Campbell
“Being an executive producer is like the best job in the world because you make all these executive decisions and then you leave the money to other people. You don’t have to be on set and counting beans” — Robbie Coltraine
“Imagine choosing a job not on money or even on career advancement, but as part of a life worth living” — Dale Dauten
“When I was 19, I made my first good week’s pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked” — Billy Joel
“Now ‘pay equity’ has everything to do with pay and nothing to do with equity. It’s based on the vague notion of ‘equal pay for work of equal value,’ which is not the same as equal pay for the same job” — Stephen Harper
“I don’t know if it’s the sunshine, or the fact that I actually have a job, but I do like L.A. a lot. In New York, it can be gray and rainy and cold, and you still don’t have any money, and you feel like a bad Dickens character” — Rich Sommer
“People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. In our day these economic truths have become accepted as self-evident” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Don’t blame Wall Street. Don’t blame the big banks. If you don’t have a job and you’re not rich, blame yourself!” — Herman Cain
“There aren’t many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for money. But being famous, that’s a 24 hour job right there” — Bill Murray
“I’m an actor – it’s not brain surgery. If I do my job right, people won’t ask for their money back” — Sean Connery
“People will always work harder if they’re getting well paid and if they’re afraid of losing a job which they know will be hard to equal. As is well known, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys” — Armand Hammer
“My parents always taught me that my day job would never make me rich; it’d be my homework” — Daymond John
“The basic things expected by our people of their political and economic systems are simple. They are: Equality of opportunity for youth and for others. Jobs for those who can work. Security for those who need it. The ending of special privilege for the few. The preservation of civil liberties for all. The enjoyment of the fruits of scientific progress in a wider and constantly rising standard of living” — Franklin Roosevelt
“Leadership is not a job you take, it’s a decision you make. It pays no money, yet has the greatest reward” — Dave Warawa
“Don’t ever talk to me about the honor of police captains or judges. If they couldn’t be bought they wouldn’t have the job” — Al Capone
“Trump appears to view the Treasury as a personal piggy bank and the presidency as a part-time job” — Charles M. Blow
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“I dreamed I had a good job and I got well paid. I blew it all at the penny arcade” — Eric Clapton
It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose your own — Harry Truman
“A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don’t have a J.O.B.” — Fats Domino
For want of a dollar the bus ride was lost. For want of a bus ride the job was lost.
For want of a job the paycheck was lost. For want of a paycheck the housing was lost. And all for want of goddamn dollar
— Scott Santens
“I could sell my soul to the devil for a dime, I worked twenty-five years, On that assembly line, Until they finally made that gear, Took away that job of mine” — Tinsley Ellis
“The decalogue has been reduced to two commandments. One for the employers – the elect, the money priesthood as it were – ‘Thou shalt make money’; the other for the employed – the slaves and underlings’ – ‘Thou shalt not lose thy job.'” — George Orwell
“If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears” — Simon Sinek
“In my first 100 days, we will work with both parties to pass the biggest investment in new, good-paying jobs since World War II. Jobs in manufacturing, clean energy, technology and innovation, small business, and infrastructure. If we invest in infrastructure now, we’ll not only create jobs today, but lay the foundation for the jobs of the future” — Hillary Clinton
“We’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty” — Barack Obama
“The American economy and much of the world was plunged into the worst economic decline since the 1930s. Working people lost their jobs, their homes and their savings, while the government bailed out the banks” — Bernie Sanders
“You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it” — Oprah Winfrey
“Nearly 40 million Americans have now lost their jobs due to coronavirus, yet Leader McConnell tells them to just ‘take a pause’” — Nancy Pelosi
“I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow” — Hedy Lamarr
“If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come” — Lawrence Welk
“It’s a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money’s worth” — George Humphrey