Employment sayings

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◆ Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking.

- John Kennedy Toole99

◆ Know something? I'd lay even odds that between the people following us and the people hunting us, we've become this city's principle means of employment. Tal Verrar's entire economy is now based on fucking with us.

- Scott Lynch99

◆ It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.

- Seneca99

◆ Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

- Lena Horne99

◆ A part-time worker is fully employed, half the time. In other words, they are part-time unemployees.

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ I work for a mom and pop business. They're my mom and pop, and by work I mean they give me an allowance. But that'll end soon. By age 30, in just a few months, they said it'd be time for me to earn a living. I guess that means they'll want me to start mowing the lawn.?

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ ...treasure what it means to do a day's work. It's our one and only chance to do something productive today, and it's certainly not available to someone merely because he is the high bidder. A day's work is your chance to do art, to create a gift, to do something that matters. As your work gets better and your art becomes more important, competition for your gifts will increase and you'll discover that you can be choosier about whom you give them to.

- Seth Godin99

◆ I peed on the floor to get hired. Now I'm the janitor. ?

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ They vilify us, the scoundrels do, when there is only this difference; they rob the poor under the cover of law, forsooth, and we plunder the rich under the protection of our own courage; had ye not better make one of us, than sneak after the arses of those villains for employment?

- Samuel Bellamy99

◆ Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

- John Kenneth Galbraith99

◆ A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.

- Alain de Botton99

◆ ...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

- Jane Austen99

◆ Drilling without thinking has of course been Republican party policy since May 2008. With gas prices soaring to unprecedented heights, that's when the conservative leader Newt Gingrich unveiled the slogan 'Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less'—with an emphasis on the now. The wildly popular campaign was a cry against caution, against study, against measured action. In Gingrich's telling, drilling at home wherever the oil and gas might be—locked in Rocky Mountain shale, in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and deep offshore—was a surefire way to lower the price at the pump, create jobs, and kick Arab ass all at once. In the face of this triple win, caring about the environment was for sissies: as senator Mitch McConnell put it, 'in Alabama and Mississippi and Louisiana and Texas, they think oil rigs are pretty'. By the time the infamous 'Drill Baby Drill' Republican national convention rolled around, the party base was in such a frenzy for US-made fossil fuels, they would have bored under the convention floor if someone had brought a big enough drill.

- Naomi Klein99

◆ In a capitalist world, the word capital has taken on more and more uses. . . . human capital, for instance, which is what labor accumulates through education and work experience. Human capital differs from the classic kind in that you can't inherit it, and it can only be rented, not bought or sold.

- Kim Stanley Robinson99

◆ The reason that man is seldom satisfied with his salary is that when it increases, he increases his expenses.

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana99