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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

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

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

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.

I never forget a face, but in your case I’ll be glad to make an exception.

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

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.

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.

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 have had a ‚real‘ job for only four years of my life, which means I only collected a traditional paycheck for that very short period of time.

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.

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 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.

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

My family was mostly unemployed working class.

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

The real minimum wage is zero.

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

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 Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.

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.

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.

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.

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