Jobs Quotes

Learning to earn a living is only half the job. The other half is to make life worthwhile and meaningful.

It is my job to make sure that these kids who are talented get every chance they can and not to be passed over; this is life or death for them.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication-- Steve Jobs turned this into the slogan behind an early Mac advertising campaign. Which doesn't make it less true.

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

If people fear that they have to choose between their job or fixing the climate, they will always protect their job. Because that's how they live to see tomorrow.

Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.

We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.

An organization that is not facing up to people who are not getting the job done, is going to have difficulties.

Anna Wintour is the most powerful woman in the global fashion industry, the first lady of fashion. She's a politician; I'm a stylist. They are two very different jobs.

Men and women want to do a good job, and if they are provided the proper environment, they will do so

Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.

Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?

I'm lucky to not have a real job, to be able to express myself, be creative and be relevant.

Magic is something that seems like it goes against how the world works and its us magicians job to be doing that.

If you have a work instead of a job, every day is holiday

My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has complemented me in every job I've ever had

I believe we're making a mistake if we regard job creation and job safety as mutually exclusive or inherently in conflict; they can and they must go hand-in-hand.

I just continue to be myself and give this thing over to the good lord, just do my best every night and pretend like it's just any other job.

Hoping gets you nothing in life. If you want more in life it’s your job to earn it.

There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.

The center of my life is my kids, I woke up at 3 in the morning with four kids with jet lag and two babies. I put myself together for a few hours and go out. And then I go home. This is my job.

I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job.

It is not the job of mathematicians... to do correct arithmetical operations. It is the job of bank accountants.

When we tell people to do their jobs, we get workers. When we trust people to get the job done, we get leaders.

A company's culture is the foundation for future innovation. An entrepreneurs job is to build the foundation

In America, your job determines your marks. In Soviet Russia, Marx determine your job!

Successful people do whatever it takes to get the job done, whether or not they feel like it.

People who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary to get the job done.

When I'm making a film, I'm the audience.

There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.

Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids to direct me.

We are the witnesses to the miracle. We are put here by creation, by God....We're here to be the audience to the magnificent. It is our job to celebrate.

A job is a short term solution to a long term problem

When actors go onstage, you know immediately if they can do their job. You can be a lawyer or an accountant for years and not find out.

The job of the artist, is to say, wait a second, everything that we have thought is wrong. Let's re-examine it.

When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.

I feel like I just want to enjoy life and spend time with my daughter who is about to turn two, which is full-time job and the hardest job I've ever had in my life.

Sometimes the most important job advertising can do, is to clarify the obvious.

Our job is to become OK with who we are and what our life has been - and keep enduring.

Your security is not your job, or your bank account, or your investments, or your spouse or your parents. Your security is your ability to connect with the cosmic power that creates all things.

Your job isn’t to make money. It’s to find a problem that needs solving.

The worst job I ever had was as a forensicologist for the United Nations. One time I thought I'd come across the mass grave of a thousand snowmen, but it turns out it was just a field of carrots.

I wouldn't take a directing job if I didn't think it was enriching life.

Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists.

I just think people, when they get elected, they ought to serve. They ought to do their jobs.

I love my job but it takes a lot for me to leave my kids, leave my husband and leave my dogs.

Ask yourself: Does the job touch my heart and feed my soul? You will never be what you were meant to be if you aren't having fun.

If every basketball player worked as hard as I did, I'd be out of a job

When you leave a good job to go off on your own and don't expect to make money for a while, you name the firm whatever your wife says you should.

One of the things I learned, the easiest of lessons, was that the better you do your job, often going against conventional mores, the less popular you are likely to be.