Jobs Quotes

• In fact, 80 percent of our domestic job growth comes from the small- and medium-sized business community.

  

  Melissa Bean
  • Community
  • Growth
  • Facts

• I was the chief sponsor of the Business Employment Incentive Program bill, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of direct and indirect jobs here in New Jersey.

  

  Joseph M. Kyrillos
  • Business
  • Jobs
  • Program

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

  

  William Feather
  • History
  • Appreciation
  • Admire

• I feel like I’m living in a prison. There are so many things I may not experience. I cannot go swimming, can’t visit relatives, can’t get a job, can’t have a boyfriend. I see so much of life I cannot have. I am living in a veritable prison.

  

  Candy Darling
  • May
  • Feels
  • Prison

• I never got a job I didn't create for myself.

  

  Ruth Gordon
  • Creativity
  • Jobs

• I was kicked out of school because of my attitude. I was not assimilating. So I went to work, taking any jobs I could get.

  

  Richard Pryor
  • School
  • Attitude
  • Jobs

• Everyone has to do their job. Everyone has to buy into it and believe in what we're trying to do regardless of who's playing and who's not.

  

  Ray Allen
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Jobs

• The thing about this [Donald] Trump phenomenon is that there's a lot of good stuff in it; the anti-elitism, the concern for working class jobs.

  

  Van Jones
  • Good
  • Trump
  • Stuff

• The more big business talks about something, the less of it there is. For example, it 'values' jobs just at the moment when they disappear; it revels in 'autonomy' when in fact you have to fill out forms in triplicate for the slightest trifle and ask the advice of six people to make insignificant decisions; it harps on 'ethics' while believing in absolutely nothing.

  

  Corinne Maier
  • Business
  • Ethics
  • Big

• Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.

  

  William Feather
  • Hands
  • Ambition
  • Sight

• Almost all of my jobs have been on locations. And I think you can be that person who says, 'I have a job that forces me to travel and I'm just going to go ahead and do it and pray for my next flight home.' Or 'this is where I am, this is my life, let me see a part of this world I now live in.'

  

  Erin Cummings
  • World
  • Home
  • Persons

• [What if my advisor talks only about returns, not risk?] ... It's his job to take risk into account by telling you the range of possible outcomes you face. If he won't, go get a new planner, someone who will get real.

  

  William Forsyth Sharpe
  • Risk
  • Accounts
  • Investing

• The historical weight of gender inequality has tended to concentrate women in lower-paid jobs with fewer benefits, at the same time made them primarily responsible for care giving.

  

  Stephanie Coontz
  • Care
  • Benefits
  • Gender

• Directing is a nice job. It's the best job for me. If I had to pay money to do it, I would do it... Directing is playing. Acting.

  

  William Friedkin
  • Nice
  • Acting
  • Pay

• Helping to find jobs, counseling, whatever we can offer, because there's all different kinds of people here who want to give of their services or their homes, who may or may not have already given money or of their time, or clothing or whatever. So, it's really just to try to bring as many people together as we can.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Helping
  • Find
  • Jobs

• If the right job came along, absolutely with bells on I would work in Sweden.

  

  MyAnna Buring
  • Jobs
  • Bells
  • Sweden

• There's a pressure on actors to get somewhere before it's over. But everyone wants longevity, don't they? It's a career. Why be that flash-in-the-pan, taking every job out of worry it'll soon be over?

  

  Ruth Negga
  • Worry
  • Actors
  • Pressure

• More and more people now have jobs that require them to confront the risk of appearing stupid on a regular basis.

  

  Seth Godin
  • People
  • Risk
  • Stupid

• That's a job that it makes a few friendships, but it probably breaks more.

  

  Michael McKean
  • Jobs
  • Break

• I was never told to "Get up, get out there, get a job." It was never a thing either parent ever said I had to do. It was what I wanted to do. I think I was very interested in being away from them as much as possible. Employment was great for that.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Thinking
  • Said
  • Parent

• A person whose job is deep thinking about atomic war would no more call a 'megadeath' a 'million corpses' than an embalmer would refer to a 'loved one' as a 'stiff.'

  

  Russell Baker
  • Thinking
  • War
  • Persons

• A company works best when everybody does the job he is paid to do.

  

  Arsene Wenger
  • Jobs
  • Company
  • Paid

• I guess there's a sort of cycle with writing books. There's all the researching and then the imagining and writing - which is the real job - and then there's always a period when the book comes out and you have to lift your head and venture out.

  

  Monica Ali
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Book

• Your drudgery is another person's delight. It's only a job if you treat it that way. The privilege to do our work, to be in control of the promises we make and the things we build, is something worth cherishing.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Persons
  • Promise
  • Privilege

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