William Gibson Quotes

If you work, you should not be poor.

Poverty is poverty. At the end of the day, people want a job.

I was brought up knowing that you have to make a living.

Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.

Most people's jobs are rooted in reality.

Working is living to me.

The global economy should not be supported by wage earners. They have to be able to build a future like any other human being.

The best route out of poverty, to avoid food bank usage, is to make sure more people get a job.

I'm just trying to make rent and do my work.

How is it that you live, and what is it you do?

A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.

I always felt I needed to teach to survive.

Anyone can relate to struggle, whether you're European or Asian. Anyone can relate to having to get up and go to work and eat.

I loved playing and I was actually working two jobs.

Workers in decent jobs view the economy as unjust if they or their children have virtually no chance of climbing to a higher rung in the socioeconomic ladder.

I go to work, and think 'wow, they pay me for this', and I go home.

I did all kinds of things in order to earn a living.

I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.

If you want to know what the biggest thing in your way to an improved standard of living, higher pay, a more rewarding career is: Barack Obama and the Democrat Party and their economic policies. They are the roadblock.

Given that all our lives rest on work that defines us, the business of labor, the wealth that work manifests itself to, I find it odd that not much is written about it. We talk about relationships, damage, adultery, revolution, but we don't talk about work.

When you grow up with a mother who has to wash dishes and clean hotel rooms, you know the importance of having a job, and you can't be without a job for any length of time, or you will be without anything.

Work is the only meanin' I've ever known.

I think you're only free if you're working on very low or huge money.

Sometimes I make more money in a weekend than my grandpa made in a year.

Young people deserve stable employment opportunities and not mountains of debt. When young people can access the middle class, America is strengthened.