Job Quotes

• Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order.

  

  Cary Grant
  • Job
  • Demand
  • Compensation

• My job is to persuade people to toe the line and play within the laws of the game.

  

  Alan Lewis
  • People
  • Job
  • Game

• If I can create an atmosphere to make my job easier and your confidence less, why not?

  

  Bernard Hopkins
  • Why
  • Job
  • Confidence

• 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?

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Time
  • Wife

• I think that among my friends I'm known as being a hard worker; I think if you want to be an actor, there can't be any compromise. You have to work all day, every day. It's not a 9-5 job. There's always something to learn.

  

  Jeremy Irvine
  • Work
  • Job
  • Friends

• I leave with no regrets or burdens. If anything, I leave as I started; just a regular guy humbled by the chance to do a big job.

  

  John Boehner
  • Job
  • Guy

• I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Said

• I don't act because I love doing it, I act because it's my job. At the end of the year, I gotta pay my taxes, bills, doctors, insurance, car insurance, the occasional vacation. It's a wonderful job. The upside is that it is exciting and different... the downside is that it is an extremely insecure job.

  

  Clint Howard
  • Different
  • Car
  • Insurance

• I mean, look, teachers don't do their job for the money, obviously, because we pay them ridiculously little amounts for what they put in. Most of them come out of their own pocket for materials and things to help the children and all that.

  

  Phil McGraw
  • Children
  • Money
  • Help

• I first came into the labor force in 1941 when the minimum wage was 40 cents an hour, and that was my first job. And each time that we've tried to boost the lower level of salary for the most underpaid workers, there have been predictions of catastrophe. But each time, in my opinion, the change has helped our Nation and its economic strength.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Job
  • Minimum Wage
  • Labor force

• The best way to make employees happy is to set realistic goals and achieve them. The big job is to make sure those small steps are pointing us in the right direction and demonstrate at the end of the year that they all add up to something pretty great.

  

  Leila Janah
  • Up
  • Great
  • Happy

• I left the Middle West for Schenectady because the General Electric Company offered me a more congenial, better paying job than did anyone else.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Job

• So the English approach to show business and their work is more - and this is a big generalization, I hasten to say - but it's more, they work on it as a craft job.

  

  Elizabeth McGovern
  • Work
  • Business
  • English

• I think film was my passion without it being declared like a job that I could have, or a career that I could have.

  

  David O. Russell
  • Thinking
  • Career
  • Passion

• I always say that my job is not to think about today. My job is to look around the corner and feel and see what's coming, and then warn everybody else.

  

  Angela Ahrendts
  • Job
  • Today

• I have always loved clothes, and the opportunity to design my own line could not be missed. It's a dream job.

  

  Jasmine Guinness
  • Dream
  • Opportunity
  • Design

• My job is about emotion. My job is about feeling. This might be controversial to say, but I feel like sometimes data gets in the way of that.

  

  Bozoma Saint John
  • Job
  • Feeling

• Our job every single night is to call out hypocrisy on both sides to make sure we're holding Republicans accountable and Democrats accountable, that we're holding the president accountable for promises made.

  

  David Muir
  • Job
  • Night
  • Single

• The International Committee of the Red Cross visits roughly half a million detainees in nearly 100 countries each year. It's our job to try to prevent and put an end to torture and ill-treatment.

  

  Peter Maurer
  • Job
  • Red

• Putting lifestyle first is how you find a job - not a calling.

  

  Paul Kalanithi
  • Job
  • Lifestyle
  • Calling

• For instance, he says I let him play golf, and he says, he lets me be miserable in my job. Now - that doesn't quite sound right, does it? But nonetheless, I think for the first time in my life, I'm not going to be miserable in my life when I come and work at CNN.

  

  Connie Chung
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• My job is to show my clients that their anger is rarely someone else's fault. It's their flaw.

  

  Marshall Goldsmith
  • Job

• I did stand-up for a long time, and I did classical theater. As much time as you could spend on a stage will always inform you and your job, as you evolve. I feel the freedom of being able to find comedy in the darkest moments because it makes it way more interesting, I think.

  

  Kevin Durand
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco.

  

  Armstrong Williams
  • Up
  • Work
  • Family

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