Quotes on Best Job

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

You're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next.

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world - but it doesn't happen twice.

People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?

Women are always being tested ... but ultimately, each of us has to define who we are individually and then do the very best job we can to grow into it.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.

Acting is the best job in the world. Look at the way they treat you when you turn up for work. They give you breakfast and a cup of tea and ask, 'Are you all right' They tart up your face, you say somebody else's words, then pick up your check and go home. And you get days off. I tell you, it really is the way to live.

The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for an artist to work in.