When I was 16… I worked in a pet store. And they fired me because… they had three snakes in there, and one day I braided them.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

My family was mostly unemployed working class.

Not a law firm in the entire city of New York bid for my employment as a lawyer when I earned my degree.

Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that’s associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.

The real minimum wage is zero.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

It’s extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can’t get a job on a ship unless you have seaman’s paper’s, and you can’t get seaman’s papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me.

The Make in India campaign has taken off and is backed with skill development. It is going to open new vistas for employment for the youth.

I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I’d do is join a union.

Tourism provides employment to the poorest of the poor. Gram seller earns something, auto-rickshaw driver earns something, pakoda seller earns something, and tea seller also earns something.

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

I know a man who doesn’t pay to have his trash taken out. How does he get rid of his trash? He gift wraps it, and puts in into an unlocked car.

When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines.

I’m touring the world, not doing nothing against the law, getting money to feed my family. I got employees that have felonies, and they can’t get jobs. They work for me.

I think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.

I’m a working-class person, working with class.

I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I’m home now. But leave a message and I’ll call when I’m out.

The taxpayer – that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.

At 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon.

I remember the first time I heard a teenager say ‚LOL.‘ Just what? But it means ‚laugh.‘ Why don’t you just laugh? What are you doing?

If I lost my job, I’d get a job at McDonald’s.

I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.

The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too – eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko’s, Fatburger, Subway – I was a sandwich artist – and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance.

Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?

People everywhere in the world are hungry for economic opportunity. And it’s about a lot more than being able to make money.

I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!

I remember the first time I had sex – I kept the receipt.

When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls.

When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.

There was a girl knocking on my hotel room door all night! Finally, I let her out.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

When hiring somebody, I never ask to see a curriculum vitae. I feel that since I didn’t have one myself, it would be a bit presumptuous to ask to see anyone else’s.

The problem with being an employee or self-employed is you pay the highest taxes.

An employer of mine back in the ’80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It’s a basic tell of character.

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

I and haven’t been unemployed for 20 years. I’m an exception to the rule.

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

In fact, you couldn’t give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I’m afraid of widths.

I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.

Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.

Well, yeah, people are working in our country. You know what? They’re working two and three jobs, and in our America, people should not have to work more than one job to be able to put food on the table and have a roof over their head.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment… the European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today’s military rejects include tomorrow’s hard-core unemployed.

Jobs are a centuries-old concept created during the Industrial Revolution. Despite the reality that we’re now deep in the Information Age, many people are studying for, or working at, or clinging to the Industrial Age idea of a safe, secure job.

When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.