Jobs Quotes

School is one thing. Education is another. The two don’t always overlap. Whether you’re in school or not, it’s always your job to get yourself an education.

All these women had directed movies that I loved on the film festival circuit, but couldn't get a job making television. That's how locked down TV is.

Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our films through.

I'm really comfortable in a stressful, leadership position. I need this job. I need to do this. This fits my personality. This is the best thing for me, short of playing.

Free trade does bring jobs to America.

You can't complain about the pressures, the paparazzi, the madness. Because that is the job. I've always understood that's the deal.

I have a car. I have a steady job. I have a business, and I have to make serious decisions.

I think that it's a myth that there's one job that makes your whole career, unless you're winning an Oscar. But even that doesn't work for some people.

Even though I'm on a show that I love with people that I love - I have basically the dream job - that doesn't mean I'm not getting rejected on a daily basis.

Offers come up, but I'm still fighting for jobs and auditioning and being rejected.

I don't feel that as an artist my job is to offer PR propaganda, whether for the good or for the bad.

I really, deeply believe in the primacy of character. I believe that my job as a writer is to put a believable human being on a page.

You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms.

There is no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it.

No one wanted a job. No one could hold a job. You tend to see those going hand in hand.

My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy. We sometimes make mistakes. We have not been perfect.

Keeping the people's government open is not a concession to me. Keeping vital service running and hundreds of thousands of Americans on the job is not something you 'give' to the other side.

We need to reduce our dependence on foreign oil by ending the subsidies for oil companies, and doubling down on clean energy that generates jobs and strengthens our security.

Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.

Let's not only provide a jumpstart to the economy and immediately or save 3 million jobs, but let's also put a down payment on some of the structural problems that we have in our economy.

I will eliminate capital-gains taxes for the small businesses and the startups that will create the high-wage, high-tech jobs of tomorrow

People are whupped. I'm whupped. My wife is whupped. Unless it's your job to be curious, who really has the time to sit and ask questions and explore issues?

Look, Americans will go for leadership that makes sense. Our job, you know, as public officials, is not to put our finger in the air. Our job is to listen, and then lead.

Jobs was brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it.

This is our first task-caring for our children. It's our first job. If we don't get that right, we don't get anything right. That's how, as a society, we will be judged.

We can't wait for Congress to do its job. So where they won't act, I will.

Mitt Romney is familiar with jobs being shipped overseas because he invested in companies that were shipping jobs overseas.

Having a tax code that rewards companies that are shipping jobs overseas instead of companies that are investing here in the United States, that will not make us more competitive.

I think we did a really good job in saving this economy and putting us back on the track of growth.

What you have to do is to look at what's going to keep our economic growth going, what's going to make sure jobs are being created.

Sustaining the energy and focus involved in doing a good job I think starts to gets tougher the longer you do it.

My first job as commander in chief is to keep the American people safe.

[The Democrats] have got to do a better job of showing up.

I think we've done a pretty good job staying in touch with the American people. But at a certain point you can't help but lose some feel for what's on the ground because you're not on the ground.

What I've said to [my team] is, "Look, we ran our leg of the race and we did a darn good job."

One thing you learn in this job [being US President] is that even if something's not your fault, you're still responsible. And that's how it should be.

My job is to keep my eye on the ball and to stay focused on what can we get done every single day to advance the vision and values that brought me here.

I want to make sure America has got the best education system in the world. And we're retaining our workers for the jobs of tomorrow.

Donald Trump seems to do a good job mentioning his own name.

What we have to do moving forward is to make sure that small businesses that account for most of the job growth in our economy are getting the kind of financing that they need.

It's the job, I think, of leaders to try to address peoples' real legitimate concerns and channel them in the most constructive ways possible.

[My kids] complained about Secret Service as they became teenagers, and Secret Service has done the very best job they could accommodating them, so it hasn't restricted any of their activities.

By the time I got to Harvard, I feel like I knew who I was, and my job there was to throw as much against the wall as possible, to see what would stick.

The job is never done and every generation has to fight again.

I don't have time for a job that doesn't leave me time to be quiet or still or to pray.

I think my idea of God was much more directive than my idea of God now, that is, a God who had one plan in mind for me, perhaps, and my job was to find out what it was and obey.

no job is a good job if it isn't good for you.

My friends and I were all deathly afraid of our fathers, which was right and proper and even biblically ordained. Fathers were angry; it was their job.

In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.

I didn't know how we were going to get jobs out of NAFTA, but I tend to be suspicious of these things, like NAFTAs and WTOs and so on.