Karan Patel Quotes

I know what it's like to be shoveling to pay bills. I know what it's like to not have a job.

When you haven't got a job, a joke is about the only thing that's free.

Having no work would be terrible.

Being out of work for 13 to 15 years is no walk in the park.

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.

At my lowest I was making nothing, of course.

If you've just been sacked from work, with no money coming in and a baby to feed, clothe and keep warm, it's unlikely you'll have a thousand pounds or so to spare.

We've created the class of folks who are unemployed for longer than a year that it's very, very difficult to reconnect to society.

I was on the dole.

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

The hardest work in the world is being out of work.

I'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven months, and it just came over me that I was never going to work again. It hit me.

I'm sick when I don't work for year or two.

I did go through a period where I was on unemployment. That was my low point: Martha Quinn on line at unemployment, hoping nobody will recognize her.

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.

I basically took six or seven years off, but then I had another five or four of me not working at all because I was in school. It was really 13 years of me not working at all... I really couldn't even think about it.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

When I got out of Yale Drama School, I was completely broke.

The longer people are unemployed, the less employable they become. Skills become rusty; managers look more suspiciously at someone who has been out of work for years than a candidate already employed.

I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - they don't get paid - many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go.

You couldn't beg, borrow, or steal a job in 1931, 1932... it was really tough.

I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest.

Being out of a job can erode people's confidence and their sense of possibility; and employers, often unfairly, tend to take long-term unemployment as a signal that something is wrong.

When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn't keep up the payments.