“Small businesses are the number one job creators in America. Therefore, it is important that the federal government creates an environment that helps them succeed, not one that sets them up to fail.” ImportantHelpingGovernmentJobsAmericaNumbersEnvironmentFailingSucceedCreatorFederal GovernmentSmall BusinessJob Creators Author:Randy Neugebauer
“I proceeded to prove everybody right as to how bad an economics student I was by failing as an assistant manager in every theatre I went to that hired me, both as an assistant manager and as an actor. I lost money and tickets, and I couldn't keep track of anything. So eventually they fired me from assistant-manager jobs, but kept me on as an actor.” JobsActorsLostFailingStudentsProveEconomicsTrackTheatreManagersTicketsAssistantsLost Money Author:William Shatner
“Why do we resist giving help to homeless men? In part because we don't understand how our pressure on men to support families often forces men to take transient jobs that are but a step away from homelessness (the death-of-a-salesman jobs, the migrant worker jobs...) and in part because we respond differently to men who fail [than women who fail].” MenGivingHelpingJobsForceStepsSupportFailingPressureWorkersHomelessHomelessnessSalesmanTransientMigrantsGiving HelpMigrant Workers Book:The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex
“People hired by government know who is their benefactor. People who lose their jobs or fail to get them because of the government program do not know that that is the source of their problem. The good effects are visible. The bad effects are invisible. The good effects generate votes. The bad effects generate discontent, which is as likely to be directed at private business as at the government.” PeopleKnowsProblemGovernmentJobsLosesFailingEffectsSourceProgramVoteInvisibleVisibleDiscontentGovernment ProgramsBenefactors Author:Milton Friedman
“the American family is failing in its job of turning out stable human beings. ... It is failing because Americans do not dare to cultivate in themselves those characteristics which would make family life creative and rewarding. To do so, would ruin them financially.” HumansJobsHuman BeingsCreativeFailingDareRuinsCharacteristicsStableFamily LifeAmerican Family Book:The Folks at Home Source: The Folks at Home
“Not everyone in an organization is in a position to accumulate power through competent performance because most people are just carrying out the ordinary and the expected - even if they do it very well. The extent to which a job is routinized fails to give an advantage to anyone doing it because 'success' is seen as inherent in the very establishment of the position and the organization surrounding it. Neither persons nor organizations get 'credit' for doing the mandatory or the expected.” PeopleIfsGivingWellsPersonsJobsWorkFailingPositionOrdinaryAdvantagePerformancesOrganizationCreditExpectedEstablishmentInherentCompetenceCompetent Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter