Robert Kiyosaki Quotes

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

If you don't have the good fortune to work a lot then you take any job you get offered, whether it's a good job, fun job, a bad job, horrible job, whatever, you just take what you need to take. But I'm lucky in that - at the moment anyway and hopefully forever, but who knows - I get the chance to pick jobs for the kick of it and the fun.

In short, avoiding the scourge of unemployment may have less to do with chasing after growth and more to do with building an economy of care, craft and culture. And in doing so, restoring the value of decent work to its rightful place at the heart of society.

It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.

What Is a Good Job? It is a job for which the worker is qualified and for which he has been prepared. It is one which will not enslave him for life, but which shall employ him for as long a time as he needs it in order to win his own economic safety for life. It is one which will reward him lavishly — not in wages or in any form of money payments since money is far too unstable a medium for such purposes — but it shall reward him with due amounts of the actual things and services which he requires in the carrying on of his daily existence.

I'm working with the New Dems, who are talking about the future of work, which is something I'm very interested in in New Jersey.

My honest answer to what's going to happen to the future of jobs is I don't know.

We are determined to work in partnership with business not only towards our goal of full employment, but for more secure jobs for working people so they can get on and meet their aspirations.

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

Africans don't just need more jobs: they need better jobs.

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money.

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

These days, government employees are better off in almost every area: pay, benefits, time off, and security, on top of working fewer hours. They can thrive even in a down economy.

I thought I wanted to be an electrical engineer, which I turned out to be. But I was always curious about other things too, and what if I got interested in history or the law?

When you have a country that can boast that more than 95 percent of its eligible workforce is employed and pumping money back into economy, that's exceptionally good news, especially as we prepare to observe Labor Day.

Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along.

I don't think I'm going to change jobs at this point.

People really do think they have to choose between high stress and high reward jobs, and low stress and low reward jobs.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

I know I'll always work. In what form, it really doesn't matter.

Although everyone does benefit from lower-priced goods and services, people also care greatly about the chance to be productively employed and the quality of their work. Declining employment opportunities feel real and immediate; the rise in real incomes brought by lower prices does not.

Jobs are critically important, but looking at economic change through the impact on jobs has always been a difficult way to think about economic progress.

I used to go from one job to another. I started at seven years old in theater and used to go from one job to another.

Today, there are more Americans working than ever before in the history of our Nation, and the average wage of those workers is higher than it has ever been in the history of our Nation.