Jobs Quotes
What I should have done, if I was going to be a GM, was gone on the road, gotten into the personnel a lot better. To do that job, you've gotta do it all year. I just did it at draft time.
No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.
To me, job titles don't matter. Everyone is in sales. It's the only way we stay in business.
Laney had recently noticed that the only people who had titles that clearly described their jobs had jobs he wouldn't have wanted.
I found fear stimulating. Particularly after you've done something that you'd been frightened of at the time, but you carried through and did the job.
You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'
The problem is a lot of people don't think. The general bloke just goes through life, gets a job, gets married and all that, and that's it.
Steve Jobs was the greatest inventor since Thomas Edison. He put the world at our fingertips.
We don't do focus groups - that is the job of the designer. It's unfair to ask people who don't have a sense of the opportunities of tomorrow from the context of today to design.
Nobody beats a bunch of journalists for inflating their rather mundane straightforward chores with a lot more melodrama and self-importance than the job should be asked to contain.
A lot of us have jobs where we need to give people structure but that is different from controlling.
They are not testing comics for drugs. If our job is dependent on that, there would be three working comics in the country, and two of them would have puppets.
Relationships take time and energy, and your job kind of sucks that all out of you. It takes an extra effort to stay present in a relationship when you are working so many hours.
A lot of the job that one has to do as a writer is to protect the thing that doesn't match the world.
If the person you delegated to does the job twice as well as you would have done it, consider yourself a leader.
I'm a designer. I make clothes and bags and shoes. I have a job that involves making creative choices, but I'm not a divinely inspired human being like an artist!
It’s not the job of the teacher to save a child’s soul; it is the teacher’s job to provide an opportunity for the child to save his own soul.
I learned that when you do the best job that you can do, some people will idolize you, others won't care, and some will vilify you.
The person who gets hired is not necessarily the one who can do that job best; but, the one who knows the most about how to get hired.
If you have poor management that's not doing the right job, you end up with unions filling the void and... page after page of work rules and thicker and thicker contracts.
It’s a fair-sized job to write a book that people can be bothered just to read; when they begin to steal copies, you are really getting some place.
Modeling is an incredible job for a girl if she approaches it with her head on her shoulders. You travel, you speak to people, and it opens your mind to different things.
If the situation presents itself, I'm always going to play as if I want the job. You either play, or get played out.
As far as acting goes, you get to a certain point where I think everyone can do the job and it comes down to a level of commitment. I think sometimes all you have to do is show up.
I do try hard to pick roles that differ. I love that about the job. I think the variety that's out there is to be taken advantage of and I enjoy that element of shape shifting with everything.
Everybody does not have to like you. That is not their job. Liking you is not anyone's purpose in life except yours.
To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'
I needed to do my current job well, keep preparing, and wait on God's timing. I needed to trust His leadership rather than try to force an outcome I wanted.
Since the days of slavery, if you were a good singer or dancer, it was your job to perform for the master after dinner.
Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation - literally. And 'knowledge workers' are simply those people whose job consists of having interesting conversations.
I have a job to do. ... If you think right now I give a damn about presidential politics, then you don't know me.
I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.
A writer's job is to cultivate what can go wrong. You're always looking for that dramatic arc of where things can fail.
If youre going to be at a job environment, you should love it. You shouldnt do it just for money. You should do it because you love it. And the money comes naturally.
Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.
Always define WHAT you want to do with your life and WHAT you have to offer to the world, in terms of your favorite talents/gifts/skills-not in terms of a job-title.
It is ridiculous to take on a man's job just in order to be able to say that 'a woman has done it - yah!' The only decent reason for tackling a job is that it is your job and you want to do it.
Graduates, your values matter. They are your north star. And work takes on new meaning when you feel you're pointed in the right direction. Otherwise, it's just a job. And life is too short for that.