Jobs Quotes

Canadians shouldn't come down to Southern California and take jobs away from Mexicans.

My biggest surprises in my everyday job have to do with the challenges of trying to be slightly more responsible as a brand.

The historical weight of gender inequality has tended to concentrate women in lower-paid jobs with fewer benefits, at the same time made them primarily responsible for care giving.

I'm not blind to the fact that we have to do a better job with our relationships between the community and police.

Don’t get me wrong. Being a mom is no picnic. Raising the kids is the mother’s responsibility. It’s a thankless, solitary job, like sheriff or Pope.

America cannot afford a rally to restore sanity in the middle of a recession. Did you even consider how many panic-related jobs that might cost us in the fear-industrial complex?

Writing a book is such a full-time job. If you're away for a few days, you have to start again.

Highly effective people tend to be proactive. They decide to find a better job or to have better health, rather than of responding to whatever curves life throws at them.

In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high.

One of the great joys of my job is that you spend a huge amount of time investigating different areas of literature.

The biggest share of U.S. exports to the six CAFTA nations is not the traditional job-creation kind. These are products that are not consumed in the purchasing nations.

As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.

On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? That it was my job? My job?

But see that you get on. That's your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on.

Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction, can be a difficult, lonely job; it's like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub. There's plenty of opportunity for self-doubt.

It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone.

...writing fiction...is no job for intellectual cowards.

My philosophy is, 'Show up, shut up, and do your job,' and if you do it to the satisfaction of your director and the public, you're likely to be able to do it again.

Men are not taking women's job, which are good jobs. Being a nurse is an excellent job.

My whole career, I've tried to bounce back and forth between everything, and not get typed out. I've done a pretty good job of not getting typed.

Lemuel Ayers had had a huge success producing and designing Kiss Me, Kate. He wanted to produce this as a musical. I got the job. It was a professional score.

I think the biggest mistake most people make when they pick their first job is they don't worry enough about whether they'll love the work, and they worry more about whether it's good experience

I feel like I owe my audience something. They feed my kids. And I really like my job, a lot.

I created jobs and saved the taxpayers money on every road I built.

Steve Jobs was a visionary in the technology and telecom community. His contributions to innovating communications have forever changed our industry and our lives. He will be greatly missed.

I actually have a good relationship with critics. You have to identify everything that you like and don't like that you see, and that's your job.

Congress should just do its job and pass a transportation-infrastructure bill - a regular bill that doesnt borrow money and mortgage my future.

Steve Jobs had very strong feelings about what makes a company great, what makes products great. He more or less chose Tim Cook to be in that role, in that position.

He [Steve Jobs] had come from the surplus electronics parts world.So he came from that world, and he said let's sell PC boards for $40. We'll build them for $20 and sell them for $40.

The way I did it, every job was A+.

We truly could have used the later Jobs in earlier years at Apple, is what I feel.

He [Steve Jobs] had more of the future vision: We can bring this to everyone; we can start a company; we can sell it.

We don't have a Steve Jobs here. I'm sorry, but we don't.

We've proved a lot of people wrong so far but the job is not finished yet and if we come home from Istanbul empty handed then it would be a disaster.

I don't want to spend my life doing jobs that I don't care about.

But at its core, 90 percent of my job is still sitting down in a room full of people, and breaking storiesand that requires virtually no technology.

The largest number of jobs likely to be created by the JOBS Act will be for lawyers needed to clean up the mess that it will create.

Everybody who works for Amblin Television has to do five jobs.

When I don't have a movie, I don't take a job just for the sake of working. I just sit it out until I find something I'm passionate about.

You think your congressman is working all day to get you a job? He may want to. He or she is probably not a bad person. They probably want to do the right thing. But they can't.

If you work in Chicago in the improv scene, anyone is happy for you if you get a job.

The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision.

I'm in a rock band - I don't have a day job! I am spoiled... a lot.

As a writer, I think your first job is to find a subject that you think you and others will find inherently interesting.

It would be absolute folly to rule myself out of any job.

We are in a results business, so Stuart Pearce being a jolly old boy won't keep me in a job.

If my results are not good I will lose my job.

I am doing the job with the mentality that I am going to be here a long time and I hope that I am.

When I look back now I wouldn't say that I cringe, but I start to realize how naive I was then. I feel much better suited for the job now. (on being Manchester City manager)

There are people who have been in this job for 20 years who will tell you that something new crops up every day. (on being Manchester City manager)