Seth Godin Quotes

Jobs can change a lot without there being huge changes in employment rates.

A job is a short term solution to a long term problem

I never could get a proper job.

All my life, since I was 16, I've been wondering where that next job was gonna come from.

Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with no benefits and generally low pay.

I really wait for the job to come. Whatever job comes up, I just want to keep working. The jobs don't always come, so you take whatever is available and hope it's a good one.

I couldn't do anything. I'd work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn't hack it. I couldn't even type! I had no skills whatsoever outside of show business.

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

Jobs will come back when the economy recovers, but they will never be the same.

Can the private sector create enough good jobs that pay well for everyone that wants one?

There are not enough good jobs for the skill levels we have.

I don’t buy the argument that there are certain jobs that American just will not do.

There are no employees without employers.

The best measure of opportunity is access to a job.

Treating unemployment as a national problem is almost always a mistake. Employment trends vary dramatically by race, geography, gender and level of education. But none of that is reflected in the all-encompassing unemployment rate, and hence policies informed only by that number are bound to fall short.

The thing about this business is you have to take the work while you can.

One of the most important topics I think for us all to work on is job creation.

We need to figure out how to connect people to jobs.

What America needs is jobs. Lots of jobs.

People no longer have one job for life, so it is right that younger generations adapt.

For me, it is all about people having jobs, and that is why I make no apology for having focused relentlessly on employment and job creation.

I never went too long without a job. The problem was a lot of the early jobs are almost more demoralizing than unemployment.

There were a zillion bad jobs. That doesn't exist any more. I mean, I could wake up one afternoon with zero money and know that by the end of the day, I would have money.

I'm seeing too many smart kind of socially awkward kids, a lot milder than I was, not getting employment because they're not learning job skills.

I never had a real job. I started acting in high school, and then I started working. So, I never got to have that experience.