Employment Quotes

When you provide things for free to meet their needs and help them discover their skills, they automatically become your family

~ Sunday Adelaja

As Christians, we should live a Kingdom-driven life

~ Sunday Adelaja

Take principles, not just religion, to people

~ Sunday Adelaja

To bring relevance to people, you have to be able to speak their language effectively

~ Sunday Adelaja

To fully carry out your purpose as believers, you have to discover where the people you want to minister to are

~ Sunday Adelaja

Demonstrate love to the people first, and then teach them to observe biblical principles

~ Sunday Adelaja

Don’t limit yourself, discover new areas of expertise

~ Sunday Adelaja

For every day spent at a job, you empty your life

~ Sunday Adelaja

When you accept employment, you are admitting that you cannot think or develop yourself

~ Sunday Adelaja

When you lose your job, you gain ownership of your life

~ Sunday Adelaja

Work done off the paid job is looked down upon if not ignored. autonomous activity threatens the employment level, generates deviance, and detracts​ from the GNP...Work no longer means the creation of a value perceived by the worker but mainly a job, which is a social relationship. Unemployment means sad idleness, rather than the freedom to do things that are useful for oneself or for one's neighbour. An active woman who runs a house and brings up children and takes in those of others is distinguished from a woman who 'works,' no matter how useless or damaging the product of this work might be.

~ Ivan Illich

Excessive forms of wealth and prolonged formal employment, no matter how well distributed, destroy the social, cultural, and environmental conditions for equal productive freedom.

~ Ivan Illich

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

~ John Kenneth Galbraith

Many a woman would not be in a relationship with or married to her man, if he earned half of what he earns; and many a man would not be in a relationship with or married to his woman, if he earned twice as much as he earns.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Some people will each start investing more of their salary on ‘their’ house and spending less of it on ‘their’ car or cars only when they start being able to take ‘their’ house to work, funerals, weddings, etc.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A deep breath is a technique with which we minimize the number of instances where we say what we do not mean … or what we really think.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Our minds become slaves to those we see as having total power to control us and to cause pain to us. We are quick to give up control of ourselves to those who have the power to rule us as long as they also have the power to feed us. This is the fundamental construct of a feudal society.

~ Majid Kazmi

In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a somebody whenever he is in his own yard a man who is a nobody whenever he is in his employer’s yard.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

~ Lena Horne

Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking.

~ John Kennedy Toole

...treasure what it means to do a day's work. It's our one and only chance to do something productive today, and it's certainly not available to someone merely because he is the high bidder. A day's work is your chance to do art, to create a gift, to do something that matters. As your work gets better and your art becomes more important, competition for your gifts will increase and you'll discover that you can be choosier about whom you give them to.

~ Seth Godin

The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Work is tough for everyone but for Kyle Shannon, it's just murder.

~ Linda Mickey

A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.

~ Alain De Botton

Workdays are, I imagine, rather like learning to ice-skate Torvill and Dean’s The Bolero. They start and end easily enough; it’s the bit in the middle that causes the pain in the arse.

~ Fennel Hudson

I had never considered that you might miss a job like you missed a limb -- a constant, reflexive thing. I hadn't thought as well as the obvious fears about money, and your future, losing your job would make you feel inadequate, and a bit useless. That it would be harder to get up in the morning than you were rudely shocked in to consciousness by the alarm. That you might missed the people you worked with, no matter how little you had in common with them.

~ Jojo Moyes

The reason that man is seldom satisfied with his salary is that when it increases, he increases his expenses.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It is only if the primary or only reason you do what you do is to make money that you will envy every random person who made or makes a lot of money (or money that exceeds what you made or make).

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Able hands' are more favorable to business than 'adorable hearts'.

~ Amit Kalantri

You must fall in love with your job, over and over again, to own it.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is inevitable that machines will one day become the ultimate enemies of mankind. We are not evolving or progressing with our technology, only regressing. Technology is our friend today, but will be our enemy in the future.

~ Suzy Kassem

A salary is, to a man's employer, what his wife's vagina is to his wife: a tool used to (1) reward; and (2) control him.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Huge biceps are an unattractive-uneducated-underpaid man's last attempt to be seen as worthy of dating, or, sleeping with.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

An educated woman is seen as a human being with a vagina. An uneducated woman is seen as a vagina with a human being.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Prostitutes are paid for taking their clothes off. Celebrities are paid for putting others' clothes on.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Starving whilst schooled is like a man’s finding out that his wife is on her periods … a few seconds after he took Viagra.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It's love for my profession that keep me coming back, not the money. I'd work as hard to make $50.00 as I would $5,000.00. I never scoff at an opportunity to earn a living, regardless of the size of the carrot at the end of the stick.

~ Scott Joffe

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

Even with my deepest soul I knew too well that all of these were just a stairs to heaven.

~ Fernando Lachica