William Julius Wilson Quotes

First and foremost, I enjoy working. I'm not at that level where I can pick and choose anything. When I get hired, I take it, and I'm like, 'Let's go!'

Last month, the House of Representatives passed the Veterans Opportunity to Work Act, which would provide training and assistance to unemployed veterans, and break down bureaucratic barriers preventing them from finding work. It's smart legislation that members of both parties support, and I'm pleased the Senate passed it.

We want to change the way we help unemployed people find jobs. We want to be faster and more goal oriented.

Certainly other things we can do, we gotta promote after-school employment, give kids an opportunity, raising the minimum wage was part of that, we can't expect that young people are going to feel they can make a living out there for such low wages.

You can't have generation after generation not knowing work.

We have lost the old love of work.

The unemployed want to work. They are not chiselers.

Let me make it clear that the Youth Employment Opportunities Act of 1961 is not primarily concerned with delinquency prevention. Rather, it is designed to help all types of young men or women who suffer deficiencies of training or opportunity which keep them unemployed.

As a country, we must come together to provide the training, certifications, and jobs that our veterans have earned and deserve.

My two careers have been very service-oriented.

One of the big issues in Ohio and elsewhere is people do not have the skills to take advantage of the openings that are out there.

There is still much work to be done to help our students secure good-paying jobs and achieve their ultimate goals, and in Congress, I'll continue to support Career and Technical Education programs.

If you like your job, I suppose you enjoy working hard.

Anybody can get a job, but what do you do when you have it?

I used to be nervous about not working and so would work for the sake of it.

As an entrepreneur and employer, in the fairly recent past I have been astonished at how difficult it has been to get young people to take the idea of getting a job seriously.

The U.S. is one of the hardest-working cultures in the world.

Unemployed people should be treated as potential to be realised, not a problem to be solved.

When I was a kid in the business, you always had in the back of your head this feeling that if I screw up, I might be fired. So you went out every night and tore your rear end up to make sure that you gave the best performance you can and learning constantly because you never had that idea of 'I'm so great, I'm never going to be fired.'

I just like doing my job.

For myself, I can't understand a life without a job. I don't know what I would do without employment. Retirement is out of the question for me.

There are millions of ­people out there, who every day want to get the opportunity to do the work we are doing and it's a short career. That is why I give it my all at every given opportunity.

I love working, wherever it is.

Every professional has their way of working.

I really enjoy working. It doesn't tire me.