When a person is looking for work, seeking work or without work then it is said that he is unemployed. Individual people who are unemployed are unable to earn money and become financially week. This state occurs when employer and employee are not ready to work with each other, due to any reason. It can be any reason from either employer or employee side. Management can also be responsible behind this. There are many type of unemployment such structural, frictional as well as seasonal. Here we are having a collection of unemployment quotes and sayings at this very topic.
Unemployment Quotes and Sayings
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun. - Thomas Carlyle
A man who has no office to go to – I don’t care who he is – is a trial of which you can have no conception. - George Bernard Shaw
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 of technological progress. - Kim Campbell
Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families. - Hans Kung
Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is. - William E. Barrett
I’m a concert pianist. That’s a pretentious way of saying I’m uneThe trouble with unemploymployed at the moment. - Oscar Levant
If unemployment could be brought down to say 2 percent at the cost of an assured steady rate of inflation of 10 percent per year, or even 20 percent, this would be a good bargain. - William Vickrey
In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed. - Luke Ford
It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose your own. - Harry S. Truman
It is difficult to understand precisely what the state hopes to achieve by promoting the creation and perpetuation of a subclass of illiterates within our boundaries, surely adding to the problems and costs of unemployment, welfare and crime. - William J. Brennan, Jr.
Mind unemployed is mind un-enjoyed. - Christian Nestell Bovee
Jobs are disappearing from every sector of the economy, from engineering to health care workers, forcing hundreds of thousands of families into unemployment and low-paying jobs. - Jerry Costello
Of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment. - Jane Addams
The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right. - Robert Farrar Capon
The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you’re on the job. - Slappy White
Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them. - Mason Cooley
Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden. - Orson Scott Card
Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven’t used the powers which they have for the benefit of the country. - Eamon de Valera
Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed. - Edward Heath
We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation… but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America. - Barbara Jordan
When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results. - Calvin Coolidge
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results. - Calvin Coolidge
When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression. - Jesse Jackson
With a shrinking pool of young workers and a decreasing unemployment rate, all restaurant chains have to be more creative in their recruiting efforts. - Carl Karcher
You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live. - William Shakespeare
The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you’re on the job.
What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?
The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.
I do not believe we can repair the basic fabric of society until people who are willing to work have work. Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life. - Bill Clinton
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When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.
Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work. - John F. Kennedy
When I quit working, I lost all sense of identity in about fifteen minutes.
An “acceptable” level of unemployment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job.
The hardest work in the world is being out of work. - Whitney Young Jr.
Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature – unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause. - William Henry Beveridge
Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses. - Cato the Elder
I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being. - Theodore Roosevelt
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. - Karl Marx
He didn’t riot. He got on his bike and looked for work. - Norman Tebbit
A man’s labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization. - William Booth
To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. - Samuel Johnson
Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders. - Ronald Reagan
An “unemployed” existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. - Jose Ortega Y Gasset
In the long run, the right answer to unemployment is to create more jobs. - George Walker Bush
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