Unemployment famous quotes

What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
-- Abdallah II

#Night #Unemployment #Poverty

We don't have a major problem right now in our country, and life is normal. Things like unemployment, which the youth are suffering from, and the rate of inflation - these are chronic conditions and we have to solve them.
-- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

#Country #Suffering #Unemployment

It is a fact that, if I single out Germany, our rate of growth is too low and we have very high unemployment.
-- Angela Merkel

#Growth #Germany #Unemployment

You're always as good as your last movie and that's the same with politics. If you are successful with a certain policy, then you're hot; if you're successful with the economy, or bringing down the unemployment rate, then you're hot. But if you're not successful, then things go south very quickly.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger

#Successful #Hot #Unemployment

The goal of the future is full unemployment
-- Arthur C. Clarke

#Inspirational #Goal #Unemployment

The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.
-- Arthur C. Clarke

#Play #Goal #Unemployment

The northern part of Sweden is considered more isolated, not so sociable, not so educated, more unemployment, very working-class, and people drink more than rest of Sweden; that's the kind of area I'm from.
-- Asa Larsson

#Class #People #Unemployment

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.
-- Barry Eichengreen

#Long #Tragedy #Unemployment

The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
-- Barry Eichengreen

#Depth #Unemployment #Picnics

It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.
-- Ben Bernanke

#Two #Growth #Unemployment

Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.
-- Bernard Baruch

#Money #Fall #Unemployment

Two-point-seven percent unemployment equates to -- everybody who wants to work is working. It equates to full employment.
-- Betty Williams

#Two #Unemployment #Want

No president has ever been elected with unemployment over 8 percent.
-- Bob McDonnell

#President #Unemployment

I think there is something like 90% unemployment in the Screen Actors Guild, so we are the exception.
-- Brent Spiner

#Thinking #Unemployment #Actors

Unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcy - the cure is not more government spending, but helping businesses create jobs.
-- Brian Sandoval

#Jobs #Government #Unemployment

Nevada was hit hardest by the recession - highest unemployment, highest foreclosure rate, highest bankruptcy rate.
-- Brian Sandoval

#Unemployment #Nevada #Rate

We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up.
-- Bruce Babbitt

#Unemployment #Gone #Acres

When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.
-- Calvin Coolidge

#Work #People #Unemployment

The final solution for unemployment is work.
-- Calvin Coolidge

#Government #Finals #Unemployment

There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.
-- Carl Hiaasen

#Block #Unemployment

With QE3, we are essentially being bought out with our own money...and unemployment is being used to facilitate this process in a very clever manner. Monetary inflation is currently being offset by labor deflation. The way you avoid collapse is by printing money and stealing assets. The way you avoid inflation is with labor deflation.
-- Catherine Austin Fitts

#Clever #Unemployment #Way

Looking to the future I see in the further acceleration of science continuous jobs for our workers. Science will cure unemployment.
-- Charles M. Schwab

#Jobs #Unemployment #Great Depression

People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment
-- Claudia Black

#People #Unemployment #Actors

Have you noticed that all the news, statistics, strategies about unemployment are provided by those who are employed? As soon as you are unemployed you cease to exist ...
-- Dale Spender

#Unemployment #News #Statistics

I learned that unemployment can be the great educator.
-- David Caruso

#Unemployment #Educator

Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment
-- David Lloyd George

#Age #Unemployment #Four

I don't believe in hell. I believe in unemployment, but not hell.
-- Dustin Hoffman

#Money #Believe #Unemployment

Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for the benefit of the country.
-- Eamon de Valera

#Country #Government #Unemployment

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.
-- Edward Heath

#Unemployment #Unemployed #Importance

There is no easy fix or youth unemployment. Partnership between the public and private sectors can make a big difference.
-- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

#Differences #Unemployment #Youth

Unemployment is bigger than a political party. It is a national danger and a national scandal.
-- Ellen Wilkinson

#Party #Political #Unemployment

I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, and they were getting ready for a life of unemployment, so they're just happy I'm in work!
-- Emilia Clarke

#Parent #Unemployment #Actors

Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.
-- Evo Morales

#Unemployment #Misery #Economic

We find ourselves in a difficult situation in Europe. There's a crisis, weak growth, unemployment... my duty is to ensure that by the end of my mandate France is in a better state than it was at the beginning.
-- Francois Hollande

#Europe #Growth #Unemployment

The automatic stabilizer is unemployment insurance, food stamps, additional coverage of Medicaid.
-- Franklin Raines

#Unemployment #Food Stamps #Medicaid

Nuclear is not only emissions-free, but renewing our commitment to nuclear power will create countless jobs at a time when our nation endures nearly double-digit unemployment.
-- Fred Upton

#Jobs #Commitment #Unemployment

The world is endless, the universe inexhaustible, and the human brain will never be threatened with unemployment.
-- Genrich Altshuller

#Brain #Unemployment #World

What are these so-called austerity measures? What do they really bring? Oh, they bring a lot more poverty. Oh, they bring a worse GDP. Oh, they bring more unemployment.
-- Gerald Celente

#Gdp #Unemployment #Austerity

Any degree of unemployment worries me.
-- Gerhard Schroder

#Worry #Degrees #Unemployment

It is sensible to have a safeguard against unemployment.
-- Glynis Johns

#Unemployment #Sensible

There is no unemployment in eco-systems
-- Gunter Pauli

#Unemployment

Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.
-- Hans Kung

#Suffering #Unemployment #Poverty

To try to cure unemployment by inflation rather than by adjustment of specific wage-rates is like trying to adjust the piano to the stool rather than the stool to the piano.
-- Henry Hazlitt

#Piano #Trying #Unemployment

There is no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment, because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health is not acceptable, and a ruined life is not acceptable.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey

#Wisdom #Unemployment #Levels

Anything that's done to address unemployment in terms of massive stimulus spending is going to exacerbate deficits. And anything that's done to address deficits in the short-term is going to exacerbate unemployment
-- Indra Nooyi

#Unemployment #Done #Addresses

When we reject unemployment as an economic instrument as we do and when we reject also superficial remedies, as socialists must, then we must ask ourselves unflinchingly what is the cause of high unemployment. Quite simply and unequivocally, it is caused by paying ourselves more than the value of what we produce. There are no scapegoats.
-- James Callaghan

#Unemployment #Causes #Economic

My job was to teach the whole corpus of economic theory, but there were two subjects in which I was especially interested, namely, the economics of mass unemployment and international economics.
-- James Meade

#Jobs #Two #Unemployment

Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.
-- Jane Addams

#Heartbreaking #Unemployment #Misery

Long-term unemployment can make any worker progressively less employable, even after the economy strengthens.
-- Janet Yellen

#Long #Unemployment #Economy

In Greece, the unemployment rate has risen to 22%. The solution to the problem was to raise taxes on the rich, according to the Greek president Barack Obama-opolis.
-- Jay Leno

#Greek #President #Unemployment

I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter.
-- Jeane Kirkpatrick

#Political #President #Unemployment

the fact that they stole their whole shtick from Woody Guthrie and the coal-mining bards. While the alternative nation meows about personal fashion angst, the Appalachian nation still sings about unemployment.
-- Jim Goad

#Fashion #Facts #Unemployment

The unemployment rate has effectively not gone down from where it was at the peak of the recession. The only reason it's gone technically from 10 percent to 8 percent is so many people are discouraged and have quit work.
-- Jim Talent

#People #Unemployment #Gone

With a strong domestic economy, low national unemployment at 5 percent, and increasing retail sales, the picture should look rosy. But one look at the trade deficit changes all of that.
-- Jo Ann Emerson

#Strong #Retail #Unemployment

Unemployment is a reproach to a democratic government.
-- Joan Robinson

#Government #Unemployment #Democratic

And if you like 14.4 percent unemployment, if you like the fact that 70 percent of home mortgages in Nevada are underwater, then stay the course. Vote for Harry Reid
-- John Cornyn

#Home #Underwater #Unemployment

The more generous the benefit, the easier you make it to stay on unemployment insurance, and the less incentive there is for people to actually go out and do what it takes to get a job.
-- John Ensign

#Jobs #People #Unemployment

Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith

#Work #Unemployment

The average household might prepare for root canal, traffic accident, unemployment or illness, but how the household will meet, manage and even survive violent crime is the most neglected area of household management.
-- John Longenecker

#Average #Roots #Unemployment

Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.
-- John Mellencamp

#Depression #Sky #Unemployment

Continuing to pay people unemployment compensation is a disincentive for them to seek new work.
-- Jon Kyl

#People #Unemployment #Pay

Every day I've got to hear about unemployment and people starving.
-- Jonathan Davis

#People #Unemployment #Starving

As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.
-- Julian Bond

#Unemployment #Slavery #Periods

We have too large a disparity in the world; we need more inclusiveness… If we continue to have uninclusive growth and we continue with the unemployment situation, particularly youth unemployment, our global society is not sustainable.
-- Klaus Schwab

#Growth #Needs #Unemployment

It were depression, too. They cut my wages down once at the foundry. They cut my wages down again. Then they cut my wages out, also the job.
-- Langston Hughes

#Jobs #Cutting #Unemployment

Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.
-- Ludwig von Mises

#Government #Liberty #Unemployment

In the capitalist society there is a place and bread for all. Its ability to expand provides sustenance for every worker. Permanent unemployment is not a feature of free capitalism.
-- Ludwig von Mises

#Unemployment #Bread #Ability

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
-- Marc Andreessen

#Jobs #Sky #Unemployment

I did go through a period where I was on unemployment.
-- Martha Quinn

#Unemployment #Periods

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.
-- Martha Quinn

#Lines #Unemployment #Periods

You can have a wages policy imposed by mass unemployment.
-- Michael Foot

#Unemployment #Wages #Economics

Enterprise Washington is economic development in areas of high unemployment around the state of Washington.
-- Mike Lowry

#Unemployment #Development #Economic

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
-- Milton Friedman

#Depression #Government #Unemployment

The internal conditions in Iran are worsening in all aspects. Poverty and unemployment are becoming more severe, despite the fact that Iran has turned into a developed and industrialized country.
-- Moshe Katsav

#Country #Iran #Unemployment

I had a period of unemployment for about nine months after my first big break, and it's the greatest lesson I ever could have learned, never to believe you're home and dry.
-- Natalie Dormer

#Believe #Home #Unemployment

My message is that the counterclaim - which is that if wages go up, employment will go down - is a scam. It's a con job. It's an intimidation tactic. There is absolutely no evidence anywhere that it's true. On the contrary, where you find high wages you usually find low unemployment.
-- Nick Hanauer

#Jobs #Unemployment #Wages

But can we please stop insisting that if low-wage workers earn a little bit more, unemployment will skyrocket and the economy will collapse? There is no evidence for it. The most insidious thing about trickle-down economics is not the claim that if the rich get richer, everyone is better off. It is the claim made by those who oppose any increase in the minimum wage that if the poor get richer, that will be bad for the economy. This is nonsense.
-- Nick Hanauer

#Unemployment #Minimum Wage #Littles

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

#Jobs #Long #Unemployment

It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.
-- Nigel Farage

#Growth #Unions #Unemployment

If higher unemployment is the price we have to pay in order to bring inflation down, then it is a price worth paying.
-- Norman Lamont

#Order #Pay #Unemployment

Rising unemployment and the recession have been the price that we have had to pay to get inflation down. That price is well worth paying.
-- Norman Lamont

#Rising #Pay #Unemployment

Generous unemployment benefits can increase both structural and frictional unemployment. So government policies intended to help workers can have the undesirable side effect of raising the natural rate of unemployment.
-- Paul Krugman

#Government #Unemployment #Benefits

Keynes tried to show that market economies could settle in equilibrium states in which the labour market did not clear, and in which the level of unemployment was high. He believed that this was due to a particular example of market failure, developed in his concept of effective demand.
-- Paul Ormerod

#Example #Unemployment #Levels

In most Western economies, the general relationship is not in fact between the rate of inflation and the level of unemployment, but between the rate of change of inflation and the rate of change of unemployment.
-- Paul Ormerod

#Levels #Facts #Unemployment

History shows that tax increases during a recession are a recipe for greater unemployment and economic loss.
-- Pete Sessions

#Loss #Recipes #Unemployment

If you add up all the federal and you look at the disability and the unemployment and the Social Security and the state, my tax rate's 62, 63 percent. So I've got to make some decisions on what I'm going to do.
-- Phil Mickelson

#Decision #Unemployment #Looks

Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability.
-- Polly Toynbee

#People #Unhappy #Unemployment

It is well known that unemployment benefits raise unemployment durations.
-- Raj Chetty

#Unemployment #Benefits #Duration

Don't get depressed when you read the press about world revolution and social unrest. Try not to panic when you switch on the news and see crooked politicians and unemployment queues.
-- Ray Davies

#Trying #Unemployment #News

The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.
-- Robert Farrar Capon

#Unemployment #Shock #Pathology

Like many places across the country, Wisconsin lost more than 100,000 jobs from 2008 to 2010. Unemployment during that time topped out at over 9%.
-- Scott Walker

#Country #Jobs #Unemployment

In terms of the unemployed, of which we have over a million-and-a-half, don't feel particularly bad for many of these people. They don't feel bad about it themselves, as long as they're receiving generous social assistance and unemployment insurance.
-- Stephen Harper

#People #Long #Unemployment

There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that.
-- Stewart Brand

#Cities #Humanity #Unemployment

I have a bad time between jobs because I'm always convinced I'll never work again. I think it may be an English thing, this fear of unemployment.
-- Tim Roth

#Jobs #Thinking #Unemployment

What is required as we travel towards full unemployment is not new legislation but a gradual change of mental attitude, a shift in values. As our taste for idling grows, we will refuse to work for old-fashioned bosses who demand a five-day, 40-hour, nine-to-five type week, or worse.
-- Tom Hodgkinson

#Attitude #Boss #Unemployment

Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is.
-- William Barrett

#Unemployment #Hunger #Worst

Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.
-- William Beveridge

#Temperature #Causes #Unemployment

It is difficult to understand precisely what the state hopes to achieve by promoting the creation and perpetuation of a subclass of illiterates within our boundaries, surely adding to the problems and costs of unemployment, welfare and crime.
-- William J. Brennan

#Unemployment #Cost #Problem

This would, at a stroke, reducetherise in prices, increase productivity, and reduce unemployment.
-- William Randolph Hearst

#Unemployment #Increase #Strokes

Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.
-- William Vickrey

#Mean #Evil #Unemployment