We need to promote employment through investment in major…

In the Great Depression, employment was not low because investment was low. Employment and investment were low because labor market institutions and industrial policies…

— Edward C. Prescott

If you continue to use monetary policy to attempt to promote full employment the result would be that you would have higher inflation, and…

— Milton Friedman

Having always observed that public works are much less advantageously managed than the same are by private hands, I have thought it better for…

— Thomas Jefferson

Public works are not accomplished by the miraculous power of a magic wand. They are paid for by funds taken away from the citizens.

— Ludwig von Mises

My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.

— Edward Tufte

“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not. Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously.

— Janet Yellen

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

— Jane Austen

“Employment is an employee’s kissing of an employer’s ass. A salary is the employer’s pretense to be cleaning his ass.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Your calling multiplies you”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— David Foster Wallace

“There is no interaction without God with interaction with men”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Time wasted can never be compensated”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Poor people do not go on holiday; they go home.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana