Janet Yellen Quotes

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

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

It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well.

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

Why should you stay in one place and one country if they're not offering you a job? It doesn't make sense!

I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.

There's nothing like a little bit of unemployment to kick the stuffing out of you when things are going well.

I'm just going to try to stay employed. That's the tough part in this business.

There are a lot of good managers out of work because there are only so many jobs out there, and if you get it wrong two jobs running, it's hard to get a third one. That's generally the rule.

Look how many millions of people are underemployed or have lost their jobs. The last thing I'm going to do is play politics with their future.

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

I never could get a proper job.

Most of the people I meet who are on unemployment are people who have had jobs for 25 years, lost them; they've been knocking on doors every week.

They keep extending these unemployment benefits to the point where people are afraid to go out and get a job, because the job doesn't pay as much as the unemployment benefit does.

I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, 'Joey, the guy in Olyphant's out of work, it's an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law's out of work, it's a recession. When you're out of work, it's a depression.'

The jobs outlook in the U.S. isn't very good. And it's really about young people.

I've been out of work so many times in my life that relying too much on just one job is terrifying.

I no longer say I'm unemployed. I say I'm unemployable. It's different. An unemployed suggests at a certain point in the future, you might be employed. That's not the case with me. I'm unemployable, and unfortunately, that's one of the bits of the web, in particular of Google.

Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high.

I don't think I know anyone who has a steady job in Montreal.

I mean, there are times when you aren't working, but still believe that work will come.

If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.

Well, I'd probably go for any work I could get.

I'm only based in L.A. because I couldn't get any work in England.