I know what unemployment means because I was unemployed…

Musicians know all about unemployment. You're unemployed a lot, and I think there's a great deal of empathy between musicians and people who are…

— Billy Joel

“Work done off the paid job is looked down upon if not ignored. autonomous activity threatens the employment level, generates deviance, and detracts​ from…

— Ivan Illich

An acceptable level of unemployment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job.

— Anonymous

In the long run, the right answer to unemployment is to create more jobs.

— George W. Bush

Unemployment is 'involuntary' when the price is above its market clearing level. Workers are unemployed because jobs are not available at the prevailing wages,…

— Dale T. Mortensen

I often wonder how we can make the more fortunate in this country fully aware of the fact that the problem of the unemployed…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.

— Luke Ford

“One can earn a thousand credentials but remain unemployed.”

— Joseph Ohler, Jr

I am actually quite encouraged and I think, actually, the UK is coping with globalisation a lot better than most other European countries. And…

— George Osborne

If there is unemployment in America, it is because the unemployed do not want to work.

— Henry Ford

Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as a result…

— Kim Campbell

People respond to incentives. If unemployment becomes more attractive because of the unemployment benefit, some unemployed workers may no longer try to find a…

— Paul Krugman

“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

In terms of the unemployed, of which we have over a million-and-a-half, don't feel particularly bad for many of these people. They don't feel…

— Stephen Harper

I've never believed unemployment numbers because the way that they calculate unemployment makes no sense whatsoever. It's not how many people are unemployed. It's…

— Suze Orman