Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sara Cox

My most smelly job was at a kennels and cattery, and I basically spent all day scooping poop.

Sara Blakely

It's really a full-time job to manage our lives.

William Feather

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.

William Feather

If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters.

William Feather

If you don't take it for granted that the other man will do his job, you're not an executive.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it.

William Faulkner

What's wrong with this world is, it's not finished yet. It is not completed to that point where man can put his final signature to the job and say, "It is finished. We made it, and it works.

William Faulkner

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.

Willard Scott

The TV weatherman has always been one of the best, most secure jobs. They change anchors, they change the set, producers come and go. But the weather person hangs on forever!

Willard Scott

I have the best job in the entire history of broadcasting.

Wilbur Ross

Shale gas, if left to flourish, could create several hundred thousand more jobs.

Warren Miller

Most people work fifty weeks a year so they can do this the other 2. Well the smart ones live in a ski resort, where the boss lets them have powder snow days off. And almost forty feet of snow falls every winter thats a lot of days off. A lot of doing what you moved here to do. Most major ski resorts are now so big that regardles of what kind ofjob you have in a city there's probably a job almost exactly like yours in a ski rsort like this. So quit your job and rent that U-haul trailer now so next winter this can be you. Not you just sitting there watching this and wishing that this was you.

Warren G. Harding

I knew that this job would be too much for me.

Warren G. Bennis

This is more than just having a vision. You can see the difference in the often-cited way in which Steve Jobs brought in John Sculley to take over Apple. At the time, Sculley was destined to be the head of Pepsico. The clincher came when Jobs asked him, "How many more years of your life do you want to spend making colored water when you can have an opportunity to come here and change the world?"

Ronald Reagan

The best social program is a productive job for anyone who's willing to work.

Ronald Reagan

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

Ronald Reagan

Republicans believe the best way to assure prosperity is to generate more jobs. The Democrats believe in more welfare.

Ronald Reagan

Let me make our goal . . . very clear: jobs, jobs, jobs, and more jobs . . . . Our policy has been and will continue to be: What is good for the American workers is good for America.

Ronald Reagan

My basic rule is that I want people who don't want a job in government.

Ronald Reagan

I believe the best social program is a job.

Ronald Reagan

America needs jobs and opportunity, not make-work and handouts.

Ronald Reagan

In 1992, the federal Government actually issued more work authorizations to immigrants and temporary foreign workers than the net number of new jobs created by our economy. Something is fundamentally wrong when we have millions of American citizens and legal residents begging for jobs, and yet we are admitting thousands and thousands of immigrants a year with virtually no consideration to our employment needs or their employment skills.

Ronald Reagan

The best social reform program in the world is a job.

Ronald Reagan

I was 21 and looking for work in 1932, one of the worst years of the Great Depression. And I can remember one bleak night in the thirties when my father learned on Christmas Eve that he'd lost his job. To be young in my generation was to feel that your future had been mortgaged out from under you, and that's a tragic mistake we must never allow our leaders to make again.

Wislawa Szymborska

Most of the earth's inhabitants work to get by. They work because they have to. They didn't pick this or that kind of job out of passion; the circumstances of their lives did the choosing for them. Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring--this is one of the harshest human miseries. And there's no sign that coming centuries will produce any changes for the better as far as this goes.

Wislawa Szymborska

Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists. There is, there has been, there will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits. It's made up of all those who've consciously chosen their calling and do their job with love and imagination...Difficulties and setbacks never quell their curiosity. A swarm of new questions emerges from every problem that they solve. Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous 'I don't know.

Winston Churchill

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Wilson Greatbatch

This is no job for a UN committee. It needs the same kind of unwavering dedication and the kinds of people that got us the first nuclear submarine and the first man on the moon.

Wilma Rudolph

What do you do after you are world-famous and nineteen or twenty and you have sat with prime ministers, kings and queens, the Pope? Do you go back home and take a job? What do you do to keep your sanity? You come back to the real world.

Wilma Rudolph

Black women . . . work because their husbands can't make enough money at their jobs to keep everything going. . . . They don't go to work to find fulfillment, or adventure, or glamour and romance, like so many white women think they are doing. Black women work out of necessity.

Wilma Mankiller

We must trust our own thinking. Trust where we're going. And get the job done.

William Vickrey

Practically, the desirable situation ought to be one in which any reasonably responsible person willing to accept available employment can find a job paying a living wage within 48 hours.

William Vickrey

I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent.