Unemployment Quotes · Page 2

Unemployment at a record highs. People coming, people going, people born to die.

— Run DMC

You can have a wages policy imposed by mass unemployment.

— Michael Foot

It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.

— Ben Bernanke

“Young people have limited choices, but they are also useful human resources.”

— Santosh Kalwar

“Life is about finding . . . what works best for you.”

— John-Talmage Mathis

Famine and unemployment are the raw material for dictatorships.

— Alexis Tsipras

The only way to eliminate unemployment is to eliminate unemployment benefits.

— Philip Larkin

To tackle the scourge of young unemployment we need to be ambitious.

— David Lammy

“Even if you love a lady, don't say you will take care of her while someone else is catering for your needs.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

If a prostitute gets fat and ugly and can no longer work, would she get unemployment?

— Tyaz2528

Technological unemployment is scary for those affected - but has always gone hand in hand with economic progress.

— Joe Lonsdale

Long-term unemployment can make any worker progressively less employable, even after the economy strengthens.

— Janet Yellen

Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.

— Bernard Baruch

This is a dishonest administration, because it is becoming clear that the unemployment statistics of the [Barack] Obama administration are not believable.

— Nat Hentoff

And if you like 14.4 percent unemployment, if you like the fact that 70 percent of home mortgages in Nevada are underwater,…

— John Cornyn

I've been in this business 25 years. I've been eking out a living doing Broadway, off-Broadway... I've seen the unemployment line a lot.

— Viola Davis

Firms don't just try to pay as little as possible to get the needed bodies on board; when there is unemployment, they…

— Janet Yellen

The more generous the benefit, the easier you make it to stay on unemployment insurance, and the less incentive there is for…

— John Ensign

For a hot-shot CEO taking over a troubled company, mass firings are the ultimate quick fix, the accounting equivalent of crack: cheap,…

— Arianna Huffington

Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that…

— Larry Elder

“According to Albert Einstein and Indian Government, Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned; According to me,…

— P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

I've said consistently that no employer ever really accepts a union. They tolerate the unions. The very minute they can get a…

— Jimmy Hoffa

Ultimately, your economy has to be measured in the real eyes of real people, not simply in statistics that appear in newspapers…

— Marco Rubio

The average household might prepare for root canal, traffic accident, unemployment or illness, but how the household will meet, manage and even…

— John Longenecker

“And with the decline of the traditional manufacturing industries in recent years, it's getting worse, not better. As capital becomes more fluid…

— Noam Chomsky

“To my mind, governments are bound to provide against unemployment so far as they may, and then to provide for the unemployed.…

— Joseph Casper Husslein

Our country is the best country in the world. We are swimming in prosperity and our President is the best president in…

— John Cheever

What is the worst, is that you will have the meltdown of Zimbabwe that the IMF is talking about. And indeed what…

— Thabo Mbeki

I think the unemployment rate for actors is pretty much the same in Sydney, London and New York. In all three cities,…

— Essie Davis

Full employment does not mean literally no unemployment; that is to say, it does not mean that every man and woman in…

— William Beveridge

There are certain people in whom you can detect the seeds of madness - seeds that have remained dormant only because the…

— Zoë Heller

“-the bank recently introduced a new system that automated many tasks in my role as a risk analyst and therefore my position…

— K.A. Tucker

Urbanisation, poverty, youth unemployment are leading to violence-prone cities.

— Peter Maurer

You are not going to revive the unemployment of 26 million Americans with tax cuts.

— Jesse Jackson

A minimum wage leads to higher levels of unemployment.

— Steve Hanke

The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites.

— William Weld

“The bill,” he claimed, “was immoral, for unemployment was an act of God.”

— Anonymous

The Golden Rule of Bureaucracy: Whoever has the gold makes the rules. . .

— Rick Sutter

It is sensible to have a safeguard against unemployment.

— Glynis Johns

Shouldn't the long-term goal of any society be complete unemployment?

— Doug Stanhope