Jobs Quotes

My personal life is lived as 'me,' but my professional life is lived as other people. In other words, when I go to the office, I lie down, dream, and become 'someone else.' That's my job.

It gives a man character as a poet to have a daily contact with a job. I doubt whether I've lost a thing by leading an exceedingly regular and disciplined life.

By the end of his career, he [Steve Jobs] has proven that he can do the impossible, and he has gathered probably the most loyal team of eight players of any business in America.

I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened... I didn't want to be violated in that way.'

I am a fruitarian and I will only eat leaves picked by virgins in the moonlight - Steve Jobs

I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don’t. It’s the great mystery. (Steve Jobs)

On the whole, it seems to me that probably the American press is doing a better job of this mediation, so to speak, between the people and the administration than the press of any other country.

My job is writing for people to enjoy and then writing about a broader and a deeper world.

The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.

I'm going to leave The Wanda Sykes Show and try to get her job because $5 million ain't too bad!

You know the economy is bad when illegals start complaining that Americans are taking their jobs.

I have a wonderful family. I have a job that I love and wonderful people who help me with it. It can't get any better than that.

Personally, I really hope I can treat everyone equally. I think I have done a pretty good job so far but I know I can do it better.

I think that trying to invest through 535 people is a tough job, you know, and so I would give more latitude.

Despite the demands of this job, one of the things my wife and I try to do is to spend time together alone. And one of the things we really enjoy doing together is seeing a good movie.

The five different areas in which boys are in crisis - education; jobs; emotional health; physical health; and fatherlessness - are handled by different portions of the government.

The first job of a leader is to define a vision for the organization...the capacity to translate vision into reality.

In great groups, the right people always have the right job.

In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.

I've had plenty of jo-jobs. Nothing I'd call a career. Let me put it this way. I have an extensive collection of name tags and hair nets.

Your miracles are an inside job. Go there to create the magic that you seek in your life.

People talk about "job creation," as if that had ever been the aim the industrial economy. The aim was to replace people with machines.

Art imitating life and life imitating art, and it's beyond the job - it will always be a marked period in my life.

Pressure is high and jobs are at stake. There is nothing wrong with having commercial music to pitch for those situations, as well as for ad campaigns.

Everybody that's an actor leaves it for a while 'cause they ain't got a job.

It's one thing to reject the idea that it's a man's job to bring home all the bacon; it's another the 500th time your wife reaches for the check at dinner.

One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer.

The only proper suit-and-tie job I've had in my life was the two years in the late 1980s when I ran a small corporate publishing company. I even had a Ford Sierra!

I rescue families who are losing their homes because they have no jobs and they can't pay the mortgage and the banks are foreclosing on their homes.

Folks wanna be like Will I Am not Bill I Am. They wanna be like Stevie Wonder not Steve Jobs.

I have the best job in the entire history of broadcasting.

In hard times of severe crisis if you want to create new jobs, I recommend you to start killing some people. It's the old "topos" of war in time of peace.

Taxpayers have spent more than $200 billion in the last decade on computer systems that are antiquated, incompatible, and not doing the job.

But it is not the job of truth to make us feel good. It is the job of truth to be true, and it is our job to deal with it.

What's wrong with this world is, it's not finished yet. It is not completed to that point where man can put his final signature to the job and say, "It is finished. We made it, and it works.

The rule for every worthwhile man is that no serious job ever shall receive less than his best thought and effort.

I get quiet joy from the observation of anyone who does his job well.

A newly elected representative quickly discovers that his job in government-aside from making new laws-is to act as a broker, middleman, special pleader and finagler.

In 1900 Americans on average lived for only 49 years and most working people died still on the job.

Countries that innovate first get the new jobs, developing an economic edge over the C-free laggards that end up having to later import the technology.

As a teacher, it's a great help to be teaching philosophical systems you don't believe. You can actually do a better job of presenting them if you leave your beliefs at the door.

The only people who do plays in LA are people who can't get jobs in TV shows.

The Constitution is a radical document... it is the job of the government to rein in people's rights.

We have a moral obligation to make sure the people who are being required to work have the opportunity to work. We must make sure the jobs are there.

We have to change the whole job structure of America. We have got to basically reorient our economy toward the future.

The economy has produced 6.1 million jobs since I became president, and if Michael Jordan comes back to the Bulls, it will be 6,100,001 jobs.

Well, I don't have much job security.

All of us have to do a better job of teaching young people not to let themselves be defined by the words other people use against them.

A parent may be without a job, but no child should be without a doctor.

You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.