"We live in a complex and rapidly changing society. Our personal learning skills and study . . .  will help us prepare for even further changes in the years ahead. A sophisticated economy, based upon power tools and computers, upon engineers and the professional, has no room at the bottom for unskilled labor. 'The uneducated need not apply' is the unseen sign on every employment door" (Thomas S. Monson, "Pres. Monson Dedicates BYU Center," Church News, Oct. 31, 1998, 3).

"It is your primary obligation to provide for your family.

"Your wife will be fortunate indeed if she does not have to go out and compete in the marketplace. She will be twice blessed if she is able to remain at home while you become the breadwinner of the family" (Gordon B. Hinckley, "Living Worthy of the Girl You Will Someday Marry," Ensign, May 1998, 50).

"If we are employed, we have a responsibility to our employer. We are not at liberty to short-change him, as it were, in order to take care of the business of the elders quorum. We have a responsibility as men of integrity and honesty to deal right with our employer" (Gordon B. Hinckley, Teachings of Gordon B. Hinckley [1997], 33).

"I don't care what you plan to do as your life's vocation, but prepare yourselves. Get the best education you can. Qualify yourselves in the best way you know how. It's part of a mandate from the Lord that you train yourselves" (Gordon B. Hinckley, Teachings of Gordon B. Hinckley [1997], 471).

"It is interesting that the first recorded instruction given to Adam after the Fall, dealt with the eternal principle of work. The Lord said: 'In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.' (Gen. 3:19.) Our Heavenly Father loves us so completely that he has given us a commandment to work. This is one of the keys to eternal life. He knows that we will learn more, grow more, achieve more, serve more, and benefit more from a life of industry than from a life of ease" (Howard W. Hunter, "Prepare for Honorable Employment," Ensign, Nov. 1975, 122).

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