Kenneth Rogoff Quotes

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

For many young people mobility has turned into a bus down to the job centre.

It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others.

It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others.... People who have good jobs are happy, rich, and well dressed. People who have bad jobs are unhappy, poor and use meat extenders. Those who seek dignity in the type of work that compels them to help hamburgers are certain to be disappointed.

It's very, very hard to hire people, qualified people. And a lot of people didn't want the job because it's a three- or four-month job.

I want to make sure everybody who has a job wants a job.

A job is bound to be miserable if it doesn't involve measurement.

The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make money by their work.

My job is to give people who work hard all week something to enjoy on Saturdays and Wednesdays.

This isn't higher education studying itself. There are a lot of higher education people here. But there are also people here who are directly involved in whether or not (the United States is) going to have the good jobs in the future.

As a teenager, Michel believed that suffering conferred dignity on a person. Now he had to admit that he had been wrong. What conferred dignity on people was television.

People ask me, "How's Teen Wolf?," and I tell them it's literally the best job I've ever had.

I've done my job extremely well. My only beef is that a lot of people have put their fingers in whatever I've done and tried to screw it up, and I've always resented that.

I have the best job in the world. I'm able to express myself, and people attach themselves to it if they identify with it. Music certainly is a driving force in my life. There's not a moment where I'm not in it.

I went to London to do the stuff. I was like "What am I going to do? What's going to happen?" But then once you start working, you forget all that and you start enjoying what you're doing. Once you enjoy the process, you know that people are going to do the same thing. If you don't enjoy it and just do it like a job, then it's going to be feel that way. That's my theory of doing a movie.

The best thing about my job is that I work with the best creative people in the business in their fields.

Some of us wake up in the morning and just wonder how it is any of us actually sustain a paid job.

It is increasingly hard for young white people to find jobs, and I can understand why white parents are worried about the future.

My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible. The job is to make people laugh. I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.

I do like to work. Some jobs are better than others. That's the thing: You really don't know. I've enjoyed making movies for lots of different reasons. Sometimes, it was the other people. Sometimes, it was the fact that I was really good in it. Sometimes, it was the location. Sometimes, it was the paycheck.

Gov. Romney has claimed to have created 100,000 jobs at Bain and people are wanting to know, is there proof of that claim? And was it U.S. jobs created for United States citizens?

I never knew anybody who was unhappy with their job and was happy with their life. It's your sense of purpose. Now, some people can find it elsewhere. Some people can work a job and find it some place else.

but can everyone simply choose the path he loves? someone has to take the ordinary jobs. all i know is, that worked for me. and it didn't work for other people i know to get a so-called safe job, because there's no such thing anymore. the only thing that stays constant is the idea that people have to escape.

the rich are different only because people treat them as if they were.

Fifty-eight percent of African- American youth don't have jobs.