Warren Buffett Quotes

We are the only species on the planet without full employment. Brilliant.

Millions of Americans are either underemployed or unemployed.

I just remember all those days in the unemployment line, stressed out over when my next job was coming.

Who in the world wants to run a country where the new norm is one where there are no jobs?

I'm grateful I know what it's like to be unemployed for long periods of time.

I am very scared of sitting without work.

There were times when I didn't have enough money, I didn't have enough work, and I would panic.

Unemployment is a reproach to a democratic government.

I did go through a period where I was on unemployment.

I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn't get a job, and I was getting more and more broke, and you find yourself groveling for jobs you don't even want.

What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

I can tell you that when I travel the state, when I talk to people, they are really struggling, in a very real way. They're losing their jobs, they're losing their homes, they're dealing with financial challenges.

I wasn't worried about unemployment.

Our businesses can't create jobs when they're losing revenue, and the unemployed can't apply for jobs when they can't pay their phone bill.

Mother had to support herself at age 18 because it was during the depression and when my grandfather lost the farm and there was no place for her; she worked as an assistant to a maid.

Nearly 300,000 more people are forced to accept part-time employment because of this rotten non-recovery recovery than when Obama arrived at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

With high underemployment - currently over one million part-time workers in the UK want to work more hours - sanctioning clients who cannot increase their hours seems to be both unworkable and unfair.

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

But the time will come when New England will be as thickly peopled as old England. Wages will be as low, and will fluctuate as much with you as with us… hundreds of thousands of artisans will assuredly be sometimes out of work. Then your institutions will be fairly brought to the test.

The only unifying force in Europe is unemployment.

Every job lost is a bomb blowing up under a family.

There are too few, low skill jobs for the number of low skill people.

The worst danger women face [in the modern state] is unemployment, which threatens to engulf them in the coming decade.

Jobs are being outsourced at such an alarming rate My neighbor has no job at all with no prospects to date. So perhaps I should be thankful for the little that I make If I dare to ask for a living wage My job would be at stake.

Many who are willing to work cannot find employment; in most of our important branches of industry there has been great over-production; every trade and every profession is over-crowded. Difficult as it is for men to obtain a livelihood, it is ten times more difficult for women to do so; partly on account of unjust laws, and partly because of the tyranny of society, they are shut out from many employments.