Jamie Sives Quotes

I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money.

A recession is when a neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.

I wasn't worried about unemployment.

If I lose my job at a furniture factory where I've worked for decades, no amount of cheaper toys and raincoats at Wal-Mart is going to make me whole again.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in a neighborhood that was on the verge of becoming a ghetto. I had just been fired from a good job as a cartographer in a design studio where I had worked for about four months.

I can always go back to construction. That's great money, but the problem is you can cut off your hand.

When I was working at the Sprint store, I got laid off. I was bummed out, but I stayed positive. I used the money I had earned while working there to make my first album. Without that job, maybe 'Corazon Sin Cara' would never had been made. It's a very inspirational story.

Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.

There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power.

One year was so bad for me and my wife that we were going to have to sell our house until Elaine decided to change career and earn some money.

Well, I needed the work - that's the honest answer. I haven't worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money.

I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.

The two words, in the American lexicon, are never good. Pink slip. The first time I ever heard it when I was young was when Kaiser Steel handed out pink slips to many of my neighbors and relatives. Layoffs were about efficiency, sales figures for raw materials or refrigerators.

The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle ... present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization.

You can take my job any time you’re ready.

Job loss is coming like a tsunami.

One of the defining experiences of my life came in the mid-1980s. After working for two years as a geologist in Colorado, I lost my job and my career during that long recession.

Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You'll always regret it.

I started out here in Colorado as a geologist. During a downturn, everyone in our company got laid off.

If I lost my job, I'd get a job at McDonald's.

I always say, I have been fired from more jobs than most people would ever have had in their entire career.

Throwing young men out of work, throwing people into poverty and ending business life don't promote stability in the Palestinian territories,.

In 2010 there were a lot of folks who were still out of work. There were a lot of folks who had lost their homes or saw their home values plummet, their 401k's plummet.

I am concerned about the economy. I was the first one laid off.