Jobs Quotes

If you look even at Pittsburgh, where I grew up, you've now replaced steel jobs with technology jobs, and they pay better.

I served on the Armed Services Committee for 18 years and we must lead, or the job won't get done, unfortunately, for our country.

I feel very angry when I think of brilliant, or even interesting, women whose minds are wasted on a home. Better have an affair. It isn't permanent and you keep your job.

Ralph [ Nader] is an old friend of mine, and he does a useful job in displaying a position.

I don't want my kids to ever think that I am choosing my job over them.

[George Clooney] knows exactly what he wants and so he knows that you've done a good job before you do.

Some people, you know, should just go to college and do what they do and have a great job and not worry about trying to be famous as a singer. It's not for everyone.

I was just school class clown and that was it. Someday I'll get a job as a cab driver or whatever.

Without a job all there is to life is boredom and insecurity.

If we took over Britain, then we'd have the job of cleaning up the bourgeoisie and keeping people in a revolutionary state of mind.

One of the most productive times in my early writing life was while I had a full-time job as a word processor in a law firm and also worked part-time at night, often working until 11:00 P.M.

America has much to gain in terms of jobs and trade by meeting the growing world demand for advanced, environmentally sound technologies.

A factory worker at an assembly line, who can learn their job in 5 minutes, can get bored fairly easily, and disengage completely.

The presidency is not an entry-level electoral job.

Many people crave security and stability rather than risk-taking, and that doesn't make them any less American. They are the workers rather than the job creators, and all societies need both.

I mean, Cheers [from the Star Wars] was just a job while we were doing it. All of us were really only hustling to pay the rent, weren't we.

From my point of view, it is better to take the chance, having had nine jobs in 10 years, to recharge my batteries

We all hope that the police and prosecutors are objective. That's their job, but sometimes it's not true.

My job is to teach them to believe they could perform better than they realize. Great coaches teach athletes to go beyond the barriers.

I have a backlog of novels which I would love to be working on and would be working on if I were not obliged to hold down a full time job.

The iPod is a perfect example of Steve's [Jobs] methodology of starting with the user and looking at the entire end-to-end system.

I've done a lot of pilots. A lot of shows. You're young and you do a job just because you know someone gave you a job.

I was bullied as a kid, and I got a job on television. And I had a camera. And so I wanted to go after those business bullies. And I just have been following that instinct.

It doesn't take Warren Buffett to realize that when companies don't know what new rules will look like, it affects their ability to commit capital and create new jobs.

If you want to get an education in how to get a story and how to survive, then get a street reporter job in New York City.

It's the interviewee's job to know that his privacy is going to be invaded on some level. Otherwise, you are better off not doing the interview.

I try to balance independent films with commercial films, and I've done a pretty good job of it over the years.

After nine or 10 years of being interviewed, you start wanting to team up with the reporter and get the job done.

A shrinking economy means lost sales and lost jobs

Therefore 5,000 new video gambling machines costs the economy 5,000 lost jobs each year

For every slot machine you add, you lose one job per year from the consumer economy

For every three machines, you lose two jobs out of the surrounding economy because people are dumping their money on gambling

And as far as jobs go, for every one job that the casino creates, one is lost in the 35-mile feeder market

I make independent movies. I don't know how to do anything else. I don't know any other job that I could really get.

A mentor must always guide, never push. It was my job to listen to them, offer my perspective, and encourage them to pursue the ideals they believed to be true.

We've been doing this for 10 years and it's been a hobby for a lot longer than it's been a job.

Entertainment is like any other major industry; it's cold, big business. The business end wants to know one thing: Can you do the job? If you can, you're in, you're made; if you can't, you're out.

I condition myself to believe that once the scene is done, once the movie is done, my job is done, and whatever happens after that is none of my business.

I don't want to run around and look at a shot through a monitor. That doesn't improve what I'm trying to do. I figure, once I've done my job, it's none of my business.

When I got the job, I was sure that I wasn't going to get the job because Tom Cruise almost got the job.

You do not have to protect people's pocket books. They'll do a better job of that than you will.

Commercial real estate always trails residential, and as residential growth flourishes, shopping centers flourish and service the communities, and jobs come out.

I think I'm realising more and more that I've got a job to do and I can't be doing the big nights out and working to my full potential the next day. I feel much better for it.

I worked out what would make me happy, and I worked out what I wanted to do, and I trained myself to do the job that would make those two things happen

I think any time you can go after an audience that isn't built in, that's the job.

I've never really had a desk job, but I've died one day at a time all over the place.

Actually, it seems like every time I'm about to pack it in, that's when I get a job.

I never knew Steve Jobs. I met him once, but I never knew him. But growing up in the Silicon Valley, he was the hero. He was the guy.

Most people are good people. But they're afraid to speak out, they're afraid for their safety and their jobs. And unfortunately that dictates a lot of their actions.

What you realize is that a lot of actors want to be directed. They're there to do the best job they can for the director. They have a lot of questions, and your job is to have answers.