Afternoon Quote by Fran Lebowitz

Here’s a current example of the challenge we face. At the height of its power, the photography company Kodak employed more than 140,000 people…

— Jaron Lanier

In the Great Depression in which I grew up and remember vividly, unemployment was over 25 percent, and over 35 percent where I lived.…

— Jimmy Carter

“It was the American middle class. No one's house cost more than two or three year's salary, and I doubt the spread in annual…

— Michael Francis Moore

I have never forgotten how the deprivation of work erodes human beings, those not working and those related to them. And from that time…

— Herbert Schiller

In the 1930s, unemployed working people could anticipate that their jobs would come back.

— Noam Chomsky

Everybody else on the estate we lived in worked in construction, or in shops, and they all lost their jobs. Everybody became unemployed.

— CMAT

As luck would have (it was) in God's hands. It was me...The billionaire (part) was a stretch but I thought the almighty dollar was…

— Drew Waters

Could there be anything but widespread misery, where a privileged few controlled a nation's wealth, while millions labored for a pittance, and millions more…

— Ronald Reagan

If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy…

— Barbara Castle

It was a recession when I graduated, but I was so unequipped to have a job anyway, I don't think it would have mattered…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

It was hard to believe there was so much money in all this bitter and poverty-stricken world. So much money, so very much money,…

— Margaret Mitchell

I worked 10 hours a day with my father, having no money in our life from the age of eight to 15. We were…

— Bernard Tomic