“I don't think that Mitt Romney can legitimately say that he learned anything about how to create jobs in the LBO (leveraged buyout) business. The LBO business is about how to strip cash out of old, long-in-the-tooth companies and how to make short-term profits. All the jobs that he talks about came from Staples. That was a very early venture stage deal. That, you know they got out of long before it got to its current size.” ThinkingKnowsLongJobsTermDealsCompanyStageRepublicanSizeProfitCurrentsTeethCashVentureShort TermRomneyStaples Author:David Stockman
“There were no jobs created in America from 1945, when the war ended, through 2003. How could there be? Taxes were too high. Preposterously so under Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan (who left office with a 28 percent rate on long-term capital gains) and Bush the Elder.” LongWarJobsAmericaLeftTermTaxesOfficePercentGainsRateLong TermEldersCapital Gains Author:Andrew Tobias
“In terms of jobs, I'm an actor. There's gotta' be depth there. I'd never say yes to something just to play the hot guy. That's not what I'm interested in.” PlayJobsGuyActorsTermHotDepthHot Guy Author:Bill Skarsgard
“I supported Barack Obama originally. I supported him for reelection and the alternative of a Mitt Romney is very, very clear to everybody. And I think the president has done a good job in a number of areas. But one area that has concerned me from day one has been his reliance on Wall Street type people in terms of financial matters.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensMatterDoneJobsPresidentTermNumbersClearStreetsWallTypeAreasConcernedFinancialBarackAlternativesGood JobRelianceRomneyReelection Author:Bernie Sanders
“If you wanted to create jobs in a way that has minimal effect on the deficit but has government action, the two best things you could do are the infrastructure bank and a simple SBA-like loan guarantee for all building retrofits, where the contractor or the energy-service company guarantees the savings. So that allows the bank to loan money to let a school or a college or a hospital or a museum or a commercial building unencumbered by debt to loan it on terms that are longer, so you can pay it back only from your utility savings. You could create a million jobs doing that.” IfsWayTwoGovernmentActionWantedSchoolJobsEnergyTermSimplePayCompanyMillionsEffectsBuildingCollegeDebtSavingBest ThingsGuaranteesHospitalsMuseumsInfrastructureDeficitLoanUtilitySavingsContractor Author:William J. Clinton
“We do not hear the term compassionate applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal work. Yet in terms of results in the measurable form of jobs created, lives enriched, communities built, living standards raised, and poverty healed, a handful of capitalists has done infinitely more for mankind than all the self-serving politicians, academics, social workers, and religionists who march under the banner of compassion.” SelfDoneJobsFormSocialTermCommunityResultsCompassionPovertyMankindPoliticianNormalStandardsBuiltEntrepreneurRaisedWorkersEngagedExecutivesMarchServingCompassionateCapitalistHandfulHealedBannerSocial WorkerSelf Serving Author:Nathaniel Branden
“The movie industry had it better in the '30s and '40s, in terms of gender equality, than it does now, both in payment and in job ratios. It's ludicrous. Are we in the modern world, or what?” WorldDoeJobsTermModernIndustryGenderModern WorldPaymentGender EqualityRatiosMovie Industry Author:Daryl Hannah
“You get thought of in terms of your last job. So if my last job is that of a meat cleaver-wielding character, I will hardly be cast as some benign, older gentleman.” IfsCharacterJobsLastsTermCastsMeatGentlemanBenignCleaver Author:Ben Cross
“A well-educated black has a tremendous advantage over a well-educated white in terms of the job market. I think sometimes a black may think they don't have an advantage or this and that. I've said on one occasion, even about myself, if I were starting off today, I would love to be a well-educated black, because I believe they do have an actual advantage.” IfsThinkingBelieveWellsMaySaidSometimesTodayJobsI BelieveBlackTermWhiteAdvantageStartingEducatedOccasionsWell Educated Author:Donald Trump
“In general I saw my job as the first president whose full term would be served after the Cold War in a global information society where we were interdependent but not integrated. And therefore, we were vulnerable to the worst, and able to seize the best, of what's going on in the world.” WorldFirstsWarWould BeAbleJobsPresidentTermSawsWorstInformationColdVulnerableCold WarIntegratedInformation Society Author:William J. Clinton
“My first official consulting job, therefore, was for a scrap metal dealer (he resented the term "junk dealer") in East Edmonton named Benny Sugarman.” FirstsJobsTermEastOfficialsMetalsJunkDealerScrapConsultingEdmontonScrap Metal Author:Preston Manning
“When the press writes scare stories about the global labor supply draining jobs from rich to poor places, the story is usually presented as a "race to the bottom" simply in terms of wages. Capitalism supposedly looks for labor wherever labor is cheapest. This story is half wrong. A kind of cultural selection is also at work, so that jobs leave high-wage countries like the United States and Germany, but migrate to low-wage economies with skilled, sometimes overqualified workers.” WritingLooksKindCountrySometimesStatesStoriesJobsTermPoorUnitedRaceHalfUnited StatesEconomyRichLowsCapitalismLaborPressesWorkersBottomGermanyScareWagesSelectionDrainingMigrateOverqualified Book:The Culture of the New Capitalism Source: The Culture of the New Capitalism
“We want players here who are going to be here for the long term. Players who buy houses here, who settle in the area. It's a brilliant club, great supporters but we want players to come here to be part of that community rather than being ships in the night having a last pay day at Ipswich... we want to build for the future rather than do a quick fix because I think it's going to be a long-term job.” ThinkingWantLongJobsLastsNightHouseTermCommunityPayPlayerAreasClubsBrilliantShipsSettlingLong TermSupporterQuick Fixes Author:Paul Jewell
“What have the masses been clamoring for? Jobs and welfare, and they got 'em. They've also got unions and managements like two armies converting the whole economy into a battleground with the customers as victims, except that the victims are also in the army. They think in battle terms by day and like customers at night.” ThinkingTwoWholeWisdomJobsNightPoliticsTermEconomyBattleMassArmyManagementVictimUnionsCustomersWelfareLiberalismEmsConvertingBattleground Author:Louis O. Kelso
“It struck me that Steve Jobs, known to be such a brilliant speaker, had a very difficult time explaining things when he was younger. He was describing technology that didn't exist. He had MIT engineers, and he was trying to tell them what he wanted; but there were no terms for what he wanted yet. I think a lot of his early frustration was trying to quickly get his vision to the finish line.” ThinkingTryingWantedJobsDifficultTermLinesKnownVisionTechnologyBrilliantFrustrationSpeakersEngineersExplainingDifficult TimesDescribingFinish LineMitExplaining Things Author:Joshua Michael Stern
“I consider myself a logical person and, you know, a lot of people try to categorize me in one way or another. You know, there are some of the things that I say that probably would be considered very much non-conservative. But I don't think really conservative or liberal; I think: What makes sense? What's going to help the American people? What's going to give them what they need? Not only in health care but in terms of jobs, in terms of education, in terms of a whole host of issues.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayNeedsGivingTryingPersonsWholeHelpingWould BeCareJobsTermIssuesConservativeOne WayHealth CareMake SenseLogicalHost Author:Benjamin Carson
“My hope is that we continue to do an even better job in terms of our nation's energy policy, so that we may even further reduce our reliance on foreign sources of oil and take better care of our environment in the process.” MayCareJobsEnergyNationsProcessTermEnvironmentPolicySourceOilRelianceOur EnvironmentBetter JobsEnergy Policy Author:John M. McHugh
“Every recording session and tour is a very valuable time to me in terms of getting to spend time with the musicians - whether they're friends and family or people I've just met - because I don't have a job where I get to interact with people everyday.” PeopleJobsTermMetsMusicianEverydayValuableEnd TimesFamily And FriendsSessionSpend TimeValuable Time Author:Will Oldham