Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Beauprez

President Obama has tried to spin the paltry new job creation numbers as 'a step in the right direction.' But, clearly, the small growth in jobs isn't even keeping up with population growth, much less returning the workforce to a healthy level.

Bob Beauprez

Barack Obama likes to point to General Motors as the poster child for the job creation success of his economic policies. However, whatever your sentiments about the government's bailout of General Motors, for every job Barack Obama 'saved-or-created' in the U.S. there were two jobs off shore.

Bob Beauprez

Every time Washington regulators pass down another heavy-handed rule or levy another hefty fine, Colorado loses potential jobs, revenue, and economic security.

Bob Beauprez

Americans are paying for our lack of an energy policy with their jobs and out of their pocketbooks.

Bob Beauprez

Job growth well in excess of population increase would be a very good thing if it were only that easy.

Bob Beauprez

Just to keep up with population growth, on average our economy needs to be adding about 125,000 jobs per month.

Bing Gordon

Your job as CEO is to be the fastest person of the company.

Bill McKibben

The Old Testament contains in many places, but especially in the book of Job, one of the most far-reaching defenses ever written of wilderness, of nature free from the hand of man. The argument gets at the heart of what the loss of nature will mean to us....God seems to be insisting that we are not the center of the universe, that he is quite happy if it rains where there are no people - that God is quite happy with places where there are no people, a radical departure from our most ingrained notions.

Bill Maher

Just be happy that something traveled 5,000 miles across the Pacific and, for once, it wasn't your job.

Bill Maher

This is America. We don't call an election before we know who won. That, after all, is the job of the Supreme Court.

William Shakespeare

You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job.

Louis C. K.

I'd love to have a shitty job. I couldn't hold any down. Standup was the only thing I could stick with. I'm an idiot that way.

Louis C. K.

I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.

Louis C. K.

I have a crazy amount of different jobs, so the way I manage that is to not do more than one at a time. It's like old computers that had small memory chips, they would do something called swapping, where they would fill the memory with one task, do it and get it out.

Kurt Vonnegut

The master of ceremonies asked people to say what they thought the function of the novel might be in modern society, and one critic said, “To provide touches of color in rooms with all-white walls.” Another one said, “To describe blow-jobs artistically.

Kurt Vonnegut

Now, the engineers and managers believe with all their hearts the glorious things their forebears hired people to say about them. Yesterday's snow job becomes today's sermon.

Mark Cuban

In every job, I would justify it in my mind, whether I loved it or hated it, that I was getting paid to learn and every experience would be of value when I figured out what I wanted to do when I grew up.

Mark Cuban

What does it take to be a successful entrepreneur? It takes willingness to learn, to be able to focus, to absorb information, and to always realize that business is a 24/7 job where someone is always out there to kick your ass.

Mark Cuban

I've learned the number one job of a pro manager is not to win championships but to keep their job.

Mark Cuban

Every job I took was really me getting paid to learn about a new industry.

Mark Cuban

Do it because you love it. Then it’s not a job. I’m a geek. I love technology. I would be online working with technology regardless of what my day job is.

Mark Cuban

To retire by the age of 35 was my goal. I wasn't sure how I was going to get there though. I knew I would end up owning my own business someday, so I figured my challenge was to learn as much as anyone about all businesses. I believed that every job I took was really me getting paid to learn about a new industry. I spent as much time as I could, learning and reading everything about business I could get my hands on. I used to go into the library for hours and hours reading business books and magazines.

Mark Cuban

I'm not against government involvement in times of need. I am for recognizing that big public companies will continue to cut jobs in an effort to prop up stock prices, which in turn stimulates the need for more government involvement.

Mark Cuban

The same applies to the music and film industries. Until the heads of the labels start wanting to make money rather than creating controversy, tension, and excuses about why piracy is making the job so hard that no one could do it but them - and oh by the way, they need a raise to really focus in on the fight - the music industry is going to have a very tough time of it.

Madeleine Albright

The bottom line is, the more we have a cadre of women moving up the scale, and it doesn't seem threatening, and people realize that women actually work much harder than men, and realize that they need more women in these jobs, I think that goes away.

Madeleine Albright

I have very set and consistent principles, but I am flexible on tactics. I like to get the job done.

Madeleine Albright

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

Madeleine Albright

I did go to Wellesley, a women's college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

Madeleine Albright

This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.

Madeleine Albright

Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.

Ben Bernanke

Until the job market improves, this recovery will not feel like a recovery to most Americans,

Alexa Von Tobel

Losing your job is terrifying, but being prepared makes it so much easier.

Matt Mullenweg

There are 100 million blogs in the world, and it's part of my job as the co-founder of WordPress to help many more people start blogging.