Quotes about employment

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

For their holidays: the rich’s kids travel the world the poor’s kids roam around their grandparents’ yard.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

For their holidays: the rich go see the world the poor go see their parents.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

When a man's girlfriend's parents ask him what it is that he does for a living: they’re not really concerned about him they’re concerned about their daughter’s tummy.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

The rich spend their life living the poor spend their life making a living.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Poor people do not go on holiday they go home.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Not every poor or unemployed person who has one wears a political party’s t-shirt to reveal their political affiliation some use it merely to conceal their nipples.

Seneca - On the Shortness of Life

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.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

If heaven really exists: then heaven is the job, hell is unemployment, while life is merely an interview.

Auliq Ice -

Even if you aren't independent or career wise, at least show that you have a passion for life and an optimistic outlook.

Fred R. David - Strategic Management: Concepts and Cases

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 for

Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

A prisoner is imprisoned by the crime that he has committed. A jailer is imprisoned — in the very same prison — by the employment contract that he has signed.

Crystal Woods - Write like no one is reading

Realizing that many you once thought the world of are nothing but glorified assholes means you've grown up. 

Mokokoma Mokhonoana - N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

Retirement is the menopause of an employee’s mind and hands.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana - N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

Employment was invented to make education seem useful.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

The garden is an unemployed township-based man's cubicle.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana - The Confessions of a Misfit

Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Employees go to school for 12 – 18 years merely to impress prospect employers in a 12 – 18 minutes interview.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana - The Confessions of a Misfit

School fools a lot of people. Professionally, one thing is not the most that one person can be.

Claire Messud - The Emperor's Children

I want to make a difference. But get a job? I worry that will make the ordinary, like everybody else.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana - The Confessions of a Misfit

Somebody is born. Somebody goes to school. Somebody learns to conform. Somebody types a CV. Somebody gets a job. Somebody follows orders. Somebody gets a golden watch. And then, eventually, Somebody dies. And, a Nobody is buried.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana - The Confessions of a Misfit

A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

A job interview is a competition won by those who are qualified the most, and, those who are willing to be payed the least.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

To a man, a woman is fun to be with … until she gains weight. To a woman, a man is fun to live with … until he loses his job.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

12% of employees study further to learn more. 88% of employees study further to earn more.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

A vagina is an uneducated woman’s diploma.

Carlos Roche - How to Turn Your Boss Into Your Employee

Make no mistake: Your salary is held to the same standards your grades were held to in the educational system, where you couldn't surpass a 100 no matter how hard you worked or how intelligent you were.

Carlos Roche -

We are trained to be employees, but no one said that we have endure a limited salary that barely keeps pace with inflation.

Thomas Sowell - Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy

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.

Atul Gawande -

We recruit for attitude and train for skill,

Douglas Adams - The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

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.

Kim Stanley Robinson - Green Mars

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.

David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest

It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure.

Robert Black -

The problem with working, I mean not self-employed, is that you have to get up and routinely do something that you do not want to do, plus you get talked down to, ordered around by twats, you know you are better than. In reality, you are no better than a slave, no better than a hamster running on a wheel. You could say the hamster likes to run on the wheel, the hamster runs on the wheel by choice. But do not forget, the hamster is always in a cage, and will never be anything else, but a hamster

N.K. Jemisin - The Kingdom of Gods

Funny thing, employment. If you keep doing it, you keep getting paid.

Shiv Khera - You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers

Everything that we enjoy is a result of someone's hard work. Some work is visible and other work goes unseen, but both are equally important. Some people stop working as soon as they find a job. Regardless of the unemployment statistics, it is hard to find good people to work. Many people don't understand the difference between idle time and leisure time. Idle time amounts to wasting or stealing time; leisure time is earned. Procrastinating amounts to not working. Excellence is not luck; it is t

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

He who makes $25,000 annually through passive income is more enviable than he who earns $100,000 annually through a salary.

Stephen Reid - A Crowbar in the Buddhist Garden

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!

Ta-Nehisi Coates - We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

There's a liberal story that limited opportunities, and barriers, lead to employment problems and criminal records, but then there's another story that has to do with norms, behaviors, and oppositional culture. You can't prove the latter statistically, but it still might be true.' Holzer thinks that both arguments contain truth and that one doesn't preclude the other. Fair enough. Suffice it to say, though, that the evidence supporting structural inequality is compelling. In 2001, a researcher s

Ivan Illich - The Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies

All governments stress an employment-intensive force of production, but are unwilling to recognize that jobs can also destroy the use-value of free time. They all stress a more objective and complete professional definition of people's needs, but are insensitive to the consequent expropriation of life.

Sunday Adelaja -

Employment deprives you of purpose

Eoin Colfer - The Opal Deception

Giving evidence against one's employers was the first step to unemployment.

Jim Dyar - The Zeus Gambit

If he had spent just a little less time wrapped up in his thoughts, he never would have ignored the shadow that crept up on him, with hands made of darkness stretched and at the ready to separate him from his job by the most effective means of unemployment there has ever been.

Michael Bassey Johnson - Master of Maxims

The bed is just a decoration in a busy man's bedroom.

Tom Peters -

Only those who constantly retool themselves stand a chance of staying employed in the years ahead.

Donald Kingsbury - Courtship Rite

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?

Stephen Morrill - 5th

They taught me in the Army to make plans based upon the other guy's capabilities, and not based upon his stated intentions. And an employer is capable of firing you at any time.

Richard N. Bolles - What Color Is Your Parachute? 2012: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers

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?

Mitch Albom from "Tuesdays with Morrie" -

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.

Gyan Nagpal - Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent

Experience”, when no longer a measure of security, becomes what it is now: freely exchangeable currency.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb - The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.

Sophia Amoruso - #GIRLBOSS

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, b

Melanie Pinola - LinkedIn In 30 Minutes: How to create a rock-solid LinkedIn profile and build connections that matter

A huge number of jobs that are filled are never advertised to the public, or if they are, they’re filled by people who have a connection to the employer.

Gyan Nagpal -

If we agree that the education, employment and retirement continuum is no longer a linear “cradle to grave” construct, then several tools for managing this reality are increasingly proving redundant. Job descriptions used for hiring are one such example. Hiring managers often write these as a reflection of their own experiences, ignoring the fact that we are entering an era where the emphasis should be less on ready competence and more on transferable skills.

Hans Fallada - What Now?

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.

Bharath Mamidoju -

Business: It is all about generating employment not about generating money.

Simon Gray -

Your success in the job market has nothing to do with the job market itself - instead it has everything to do with you.

Garry Crystal - Leaving London

You can see the people who thought they could come to London, bend over and pick gold off the streets. They’re all lying on benches in Trafalgar Square with hernias and cans of Special Brew.

Auliq Ice -

Each job requires a conscious choice of career path, and a different plan of development.

M. Azeem Pasha -

The Synonyms of Job is Compulsion!!

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana - The Confessions of a Misfit

Self-employment killed the weekend.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana - The Confessions of a Misfit

We are so used to working that not working is the new hard work.

E.M. Forster - Aspects of the Novel

Most of us are pseudo-scholars...for we are a very large and quite a powerful class, eminent in Church and State, we control the education of the Empire, we lend to the Press such distinction as it consents to receive, and we are a welcome asset at dinner-parties.Pseudo-scholarship is, on its good side, the homage paid by ignorance to learning. It also has an economic side, on which we need not be hard. Most of us must get a job before thirty, or sponge on our relatives, and many jobs can only b

Joseph Ohler - Jr.

One can earn a thousand credentials but remain unemployed.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

An employer’s fart is music to his employees’ ears.

Sara Sheridan -

I care about a lot of issues. I care about libraries, I care about healthcare, I care about homelessness and unemployment. I care about net neutrality and the steady erosion of our liberties both online and off. I care about the rich/poor divide and the rise of corporate business.

Gyan Nagpal - Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent

The employment equation used to be built on a foundation of two-way loyalty. The world has changed. Today, successful employment relationships can only be sustained on a foundation of two-way honesty

Gyan Nagpal - Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent

Careers increasingly come with a reboot button, and companies that realize this early possess a competitive talent advantage

Mokokoma Mokhonoana - The Confessions of a Misfit

Weekends are life’s gift to those who hate their jobs.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana - The Confessions of a Misfit

We’re all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent.

Janusz Korwin-Mikke -

We are not for making shoes, so the shoemakers can have jobs, but so we can wear the shoes.

Joseph Ohler - Jr.

Just as a CEO could care less about pay equity, the university administrator is unconcerned with how many of her program graduates secure employment of any particular quality.

Johanna Harris - Use Protection: An Employee's Guide to Advancement in the Workplace

You may be thinking that your company has a human resources person who will keep you out of trouble. This is a dangerous misconception. Whether your company has a massive Human Resources Department with hundreds of representatives or a small office with just a single representative, these HR reps are not your advocates. They work for the company, not for you.

Charles Bukowski - Factotum

I´ve given you my time. Its all I´ve got to give - its all any man has. And for a pitiful buck and a quarter an hour.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Self-employed people work where they live. Entrepreneurs live where they work.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

An education system is best belittled when the so-called educated gets hired by a company that’s owned by a so-called dropout.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Periods are a period when nature forces prostitutes to go on leave.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Once employed, the employed's friends are reduced to creatures that he only sees when he has a new problem, or, something new to show off.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

School is a factory where the raw material called student is turned into a product called employee.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Literacy makes man a victim of advertising. Education makes him a victim of employment.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

To drive a woman away, tell her that you are unemployed. To bore her, tell her that you are single.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Most self-employed people remain slaves to the employed’s working hours.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

You know you are capitalism’s ideal puppet (and that education betrayed you) when winning the lottery is your only chance to realizing financial freedom.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

If employment really cared about employees, people wouldn’t have to work until retirement comes to their rescue.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

If being seen as worthy of employing is the best that school does for the schooled, then school is overrated.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Most employees are smarter than their employers. All employers are braver than their employees.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

A promotion is an illusionary solution out of an indebted employee’s pit of debt.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

The more civilized people are, the more honorable working hard is to them. As a result, the more civilized we get, the less we live.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Absolute freedom is an illusion. For while an employed man might be free from starvation, he is a slave to his employer's financial aspirations, and, working-hours.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Belonging to the working class is the economy’s punishment for those who did what they were told to do in class.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Schooling is a manufacturing process whereby the raw material called curious boys is turned into products called obedient men.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

The office’ is a cemetery of dreams.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Some of today’s slaves sleep on king size beds.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Weekends are an employee’s parole.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Granted, not all uneducated women are prostitutes, and, not all prostitutes are uneducated. However, where building a family is employment, an uneducated woman's womb is her diploma.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Working overtime is an underpaid man’s salvation.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

School programs the schooled to type a CV. Life inspires the unschooled to type a business plan.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

Education inspires the educated to think for themselves. Schooled programs the schooled to work for others.