David Cameron Quotes

When somebody is enthusiastic about a job opportunity - but gives off the feeling that this is not the only one they have on the table - they become more seductive in the employer's eyes. You become more desirable because it shows that you're making a conscious and thoughtful decision for the right reasons.

They keep extending these unemployment benefits to the point where people are afraid to go out and get a job, because the job doesn't pay as much as the unemployment benefit does.

I applied for a job at 'The New York Times' many years ago, and felt correctly that my life depended on it.

Sometimes I have to accept a job I don't really want. Hardly anybody comes up to you with a commission; it's all competitions these days.

I worked at the Illinois unemployment office. I got $55 a week and the unemployed got $45. And they only had to come in once a week.

The Phillies liked the work I had done with the Cubs, and really wanted me there. They were on the phone as soon as my contract was up in Chicago, and it was just a great feeling to be wanted, to be appreciated for the work you do.

You have to be looking for a job to get unemployment benefits. If you stop looking for work, you are no longer eligible to receive benefits.

When I graduated, I was really lucky because I got hired immediately by CBS as a production assistant.

I was on the dole.

If I would take a job with a professional league, I need to be ready.

I've heard the argument that unemployment benefits somehow act as a disincentive to the long-term unemployed when it comes to looking for work, but the opposite is true. Unemployment Insurance serves as a powerful incentive for people to keep searching for jobs, rather than drop out of the labor force altogether.

The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.

Why should you stay in one place and one country if they're not offering you a job? It doesn't make sense!

We have to create jobs but also make sure that those who are looking for work aren't just left without any assistance whatsoever.

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

First job I went out on in new York I got, and when I came back, the first job I went out on, I got.

I got an offer at 'Vogue.' And I desperately wanted to work in magazines. My interest wasn't in fashion, but when you get an offer right out of college for a magazine that big - I decided that it was probably better to start at a big name magazine, even if I wasn't necessarily fascinated with the subject.

Immediate relief for the unemployed was the first essential

Never turn down a job you haven’t been offered.

Well, any time they would like to take over this job, they can have it.

Jobs not welfare.

Anyone with a job wants to hear about how to keep it or get a better one, not what a politician has to offer when workers find themselves with a pink slip.

Not having a job makes it harder to get one. Employers are more wary/

Understand, this is unemployment insurance. It's not welfare, as a lot of my Republican colleagues like to suggest it is. You pay into it when you're working. You get help when you're not.

Everybody wants to help folks out. But we've got a system where you can stay on unemployment for an awfully long time. And I think we need to create a system of decreasing benefits over time to encourage you to get a job.