Quotes on Jobs

Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.

There's always someone out there training for your spot. For my scholarship at the University of Florida, for my job with the Denver Broncos, for my position with the New York Jets. And that's the reason to get up earlier or stay up later.

A lot of people would have loved me to keep singing... You come to a point where you have sung, more or less... your whole repertoire and you want to get down to the job of living.

Once again, the puppets on Capitol Hill are about to slam the Muppets on Main Street. The country still hasn't recovered from the Wall Street-induced financial cataclysm of 2008, yet Congress is preparing to enact the Orwellian 'JOBS Act' - a bill that should in fact be called the 'Return Fraud to Wall Street in One Easy Step Act.'

When I don't have a movie, I don't take a job just for the sake of working. I just sit it out until I find something I'm passionate about.

Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids to direct me.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

A recession is very bad for publicly traded companies, but it's the best time for startups. When you have massive layoffs, there's more competition for available jobs, which means that an entrepreneur can hire freelancers at a lower cost.

Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.

If you hire people just because they can do a job, they'll work for your money, but if they believe what you believe, they'll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I'm doing, I always tell myself, 'You can do better than this.'

It is not your job to seek for love. It IS your job to seek within yourself all the barriers against its coming.

Our point of view is, lets not be so elitist that we can't honor good, hard, dignified, ennobling work: people working with their hands, building things, putting up solar panels, weatherizing homes, working on organic agriculture, building wind farms. We don't have robots in society, so somebody has to do that work. Lets make sure that the people who can use that work get a chance to do it. I see that as a first step toward bigger and better things.

That's the nice thing about this job. You get to quote yourself shamelessly. If you don't, Larry Speakes will.

There is a terrific disadvantage in not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily. Even though we never like it, and even though we wish they didn't write it, and even though we disapprove, there isn't any doubt that we could not do the job at all in a free society without a very, very active press.

In our society it is murder, psychologically, to deprive a man of a job or an income. You are in substance saying to that man that he has no right to exist. You are in a real way depriving him of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, denying in his case the very creed of his society.

Do the jobs you like least first. It makes each successive job easier.

Revolutionaries don't get job security. They compete with rats for cheese and with strays for shelter--after the big bullets make feet out of their knees.