Self Employment Quotes

There is no room in the economic literature for people making a living through self-employment, finding way to develop goods or services that they sell directly to those who need them. But in the real world, that's what you see the poor doing everywhere. ~ Muhammad Yunus

In short, capitalism depends on ever-growing amounts of state intervention in the market for its survival, and the system is hitting the point where the teat runs dry.

The result is a system in which governments and corporations are increasingly hollowed out. And meanwhile, growing up within this corporate capitalist "integument," things like open source software and culture, open-source industrial design, permaculture and low-overhead garage micromanufacturing eat the corporate-state economy alive. An ever-growing share of labor and production are disappearing into relocalized resilient economies, self-employment, worker cooperatives and the informal and household economy. In the end, they will skeletonize the corporate dinosaurs like a swarm of piranha. ~ Kevin A. Carson

It takes courage not to laugh at your boss's joke, especially if it is funny. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The demand for good bookkeepers is at an all time high as more people make the leap into self-employment each year and need competent bookkeeping help. ~ Sylvia Jaumann

Employees leave where they work. Employers live where they work. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Age did not have to prohibit or inhibit a woman's ability to make money or a living. Age did not diminish a woman's usefulness as a self-employed person or entrepreneur. Age did not limit the ways in which a woman made money through self-employment or entrepreneurship. ~ Robin Caldwell

Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy. ~ Marshall McLuhan

In self-examination, take no account of yourself by your thoughts and resolutions in the days of religion and solemnity; examine how it is with you in the days of ordinary conversation and in the circumstances of secular employment. ~ Jeremy Taylor

Self-employed people work where they live. Entrepreneurs live where they work. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Some people have the courage to bungee jump or even skydive, yet they lack the courage to work for themselves. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Self-employment killed the weekend. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A person's right to a job is as specious as his boss' right to success in business. There is no right to a minimum wage, just as there is no right to success in self-employment. ~ Rex Curry

Until you fight the battle against time, you won't know how best to manage your time ~ Sunday Adelaja

If shackling former prisoners with a lifetime of debt and authorizing discrimination against them in employment, housing, education, and public benefits is not enough to send the message that they are not wanted and not even considered full citizens, then stripping voting rights from those labeled criminals surely gets the point across. ~ Michelle Alexander

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. ~ Michael Spence

Time is the source of all things ~ Sunday Adelaja

The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing. ~ Patricia Hill Collins

Take love to people and teach them to abide by the principles of God ~ Sunday Adelaja

Schooling is a manufacturing process whereby the raw material called curious boys is turned into products called obedient men. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Full employment - very full employment; long, weary, back-breaking employment - is characteristic of precisely the nations that are most retarded industrially. ~ Henry Hazlitt

The progress of civilization has meant the reduction of employment, not its increase. It is because we have become increasingly wealthy as a nation that we have been able virtually to eliminate child labor, to remove the necessity of work for many of the aged and to make it unnecessary for millions of women to take jobs. ~ Henry Hazlitt

As a result of Obamacare, we are becoming something of a part-time employment country. ~ Maria Bartiromo

I consider it a degradation and a stain on my honor to submit to baptism in order to qualify myself for state employment in Prussia. ~ Heinrich Heine

I remembered that Johnson had declared portrait painting to be an improper employment for a woman. "Public practice of any art and staring in men's faces is very indelicate in a female," he had said.
Well I'd seen Dr. Johnson's face in the book's frontispiece and I couldn't imagine anyone male or female wanting to stare into it for any length of time - the man was an absolute toad. ~ Alan Bradley

Getting fired from work is not a death sentence ~ Sunday Adelaja

In every life there are pauses and interruptions... points of time where one course of action ends and another begins; and by vicissitude of fortune, or alteration of employment, by change of place or loss of friendship, we are forced to say of something, this is the last. ~ Beryl Bainbridge

Joblessness sets you free psychologically ~ Sunday Adelaja

Don't wait for people to locate you. Rather, reach out to people and help to bring them to Christ ~ Sunday Adelaja

The question is: Would there be a market in Germany for certain types of employment if one were to allow the employed person to earn less than is necessary to maintain his standard of living? ~ Angela Merkel

Realizing that many you once thought the world of are nothing but glorified assholes means you've grown up. ~ Crystal Woods

Time management is the major difference between the rich and poor ~ Sunday Adelaja

I am not merely satisfied in making money for myself, for I am endeavoring to provide employment for hundreds of women of my race ... I want to say to every Negro woman present, don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them! ~ Madam C. J. Walker

Tenure in any department is serious business, because it means, essentially, employment for life. ~ Michael Shermer

You've got little time on earth, make each day count ~ Sunday Adelaja

At present, the most valuable gift which can be bestowed upon women is something to do which they can do well and worthily, and thereby maintain themselves. ~ James A. Garfield

Air control can be established by superiority in numbers, by better employment, by better equipment, or by a combination of these factors. ~ Carl Andrew Spaatz

It must be confessed that though the plague was chiefly among the poor, yet were the poor the most venturous and fearless of it, and went about their employment with a sort of brutal courage; I must call it so, for it was founded neither on religion or prudence; scarce did they use any caution, but run into any business which they could get employment in, though it was the most hazardous. Such was that of tending the sick, watching houses shut up, carrying infected persons to the pest-house, and, which was still worse, carrying the dead away to their graves. ~ Daniel Defoe

Conservatives are also against unions and want to legislate them out of existence via what are called "right to work" laws. Such laws see employment through a Strict Father lens: as simply a matter of individual responsibility by the employee. Conservative enmity against unions follows from the moral hierarchy: Rich Over Poor; Employer Over Employee. Unions are actually agents of freedom - freedom from corporate servitude and wage slavery. Without unions, employees have to individually take what is offered, usually far less than they would get with a union: not just pay but worker safety, health care benefits, pensions, reasonable working conditions and hours, reasonable vacation time. What is "reasonable"? What the union members can negotiate. Unions create freedom. Austerity ~ George Lakoff

Be disciplined and effective in your relationship with God ~ Sunday Adelaja

Stop killing and wasting time. Get something done today ~ Sunday Adelaja

My mission is to put France back on its feet. The priority is employment. Efforts have to be made, but those efforts must be made fairly. ~ Francois Hollande

Your environment should be your time marker ~ Sunday Adelaja

Losing your job gives you time ~ Sunday Adelaja

If these assets were set up as a revolving fund with which Japan could import raw materials for its industries, Japanese exports could again enter the channels of world trade-and Japanese workers would have employment and something to eat. ~ James Forrestal