Jobs Quotes

Don’t do it because it’s your job, do it because you can.

The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.

I know that being an in-house person is much, much harder than being outside...that's why I've never had a job.

I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day.

What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?

I was happy being a journalist. I didn't realize losing my job, my identity went with it.

Growing up, the most important thing, after taking care of your family and getting a decent job of work, was having a laugh. That was the point to life.

It's one of the most important things in life to provide someone with a job.

As a job seeker, remember this: You only lack experience if they want it done the same old way.

You are someone else's miracle! God is setting up divine appointments and it is our job to keep them

Whatever it is, you have to show up for the job, and power through.

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

My job is not to try to give readers what they want but to try to make readers want what I give.

The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.

We don't often have the luxury of time [in Steve Jobs movie ]to have these conversations where you just literally get to sit around for day and days and analyze every line of dialogue.

Once a year ask the boss, "What do I or my people do that helps you to do your job?" and "What do I or my people do that hampers you?"

And the one job my father knew of, that he'd had experience of himself, was the Army, so he could help me in that direction.

Charlie Sheen called his boss on 'Two and a Half Men' a 'Jew ki**' and expected to go back to work. That’s crazy. If you could do that and keep your job, then everybody would do it.

Once you have a mission, you can't go back to having a job.

Life is the same. It would be the same thing if I were still working at Starbucks, having to deal with a manager, and a shift manager. This is a job.

The idea [the government's 'You Win' campaign] is that instead of young people in Nigeria waiting to get employment, they should create their own jobs and employ their peers and employ other people.

It is the church's job, as Dr. [Martin Luther] King says, to be the conscience of the state, not the chaplain of the state.

You can't wrestle forever. It's a very physically taxing job. There's no doubt about it. Physically, and more importantly, mentally.

Netflix is amazing 'cause they trust the creator to do their job, and they trust us to do our job. They're really smart and just let us do our thing and deliver a great job.

Government does not create jobs. Government does not create jobs.

I like the job. That's what I'll miss the most... I'm not sure anybody ever liked this as much as I've liked it.

Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.

I've always quit jobs without telling the employer that I was quitting; I just wouldn't show up one day.

And I've been lucky in that I haven't had another job besides acting in the last five years.

Stand-up led to me doing solo shows, which led to me being offered my first broadcasting job, being a VJ.

Being a father is sometimes my hardest but always my most rewarding job. Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there.

I really have been blessed and fortunate to have accomplished what I have. I hope to do this for a long time. It's such an enjoyable job. I love to do it.

You did it! Congratulations! World's best cup of coffee! Great job, everybody! It's great to be here.

I will be the greatest jobs producer that God ever created.

Steve [Jobs'] brilliance is his ability to see something and then understand it and then figure out how to put it into the context of his design methodology - everything is design.

When they ask me who's the president of Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan I'm going to say, you know, I don't know. Do you know? And then I'm going to say how's that going to create one job?

The economic insecurity of the past ten to 15 years, the 2008 Wall Street crash, NAFTA, and the loss of millions of good jobs - these directly grow out of Democratic Party neo-liberal policies.

If you cannot handle the pressure, don't be an entrepreneur. Go get a job!

I think every job you have to lie to get. You always say how wonderful it all is, that it's an amazing script - "I love you, you're such a great director." I think every actor does that.

It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in the third chair, not the first chair.

Sometimes I think of myself as a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another and gather pollen and sort of stimulate everybody. I guess that’s the job I do.

... Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.

I would love to have a long and serious conversation with the Pope. And Woody Allen, whom I have never interviewed. Then, after those two? Steve Jobs.

It's my job as an actor to commit to the role and not - through my own inhibitions - run away.

I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises.

I am very fortunate having the job that I do and I want to do it for as long as possible.

Nothing has man invented yet that will do a better job than heels at making a good pair of legs look great, or great ones look fabulous.

The hardest thing in my industry is longevity, getting your next job. It's hard to get the first job, but it's so much harder to get the sixth or seventh as a woman.

Let the unskilled jobs that take absolutely no knowledge whatsoever to do — let stupid and unskilled Mexicans do that work.

My job as the writer is to fool you. Your job as the reader is to see if you can catch me at it.