Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zach Braff

I love 'Scrubs.' It's the best day job in the world.

Zach Braff

Dude, writing, acting and directing are such easy jobs. But to do them all as awesomely as Zach Braff does, well that... that's something.

Zac Hanson

It's cool to have critical success because it's always nice for your peers to say, 'Good job.' But who cares about them?

Zac Posen

I think that paying your bills every month, that's not so glamorous or fun, having a job, or when your child gets sick. That's why when there are those special things, they are even more important and you want them to have a purpose.

William H. Macy

I got an agent. He said, what do you wanna do, and I said, I want an Oscar nomination. That's your job, that's what I'm paying you for. And I got it.

William H. Macy

The only people who do plays in LA are people who can't get jobs in TV shows.

William E. Simon

Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source of technological innovation, jobs, and wealth.

William E. Simon

If you really want to help the poor, help the rich. They're the ones who will invest, build more factories, create more jobs.

Wendell Pierce

I'm so thankful when I have a job. I would say the worst job I ever had was the one I quit after the first night. I was an overnight restaurant janitor. And it wasn't because of the job. We had to do four restaurants in the night, overnight. But I was working with a den of thieves. I just quit the next day.

Wendell Berry

People talk about "job creation," as if that had ever been the aim the industrial economy. The aim was to replace people with machines.

Wendell Berry

People who blame the Bible for the modern destruction of nature have failed to see its delight in the variety and individuality of creatures and its insistence upon their holiness. But that delight-in, say, the final chapters of Job or the 104th Psalm-is far more useful to the cause of conservation than the undifferentiating abstractions of science... Reverence gives standing to creatures, and to our perception of them, just as the law gives standing to a citizen.

Wendell Berry

The real work of planet-saving will be small, humble, and humbling, and (insofar as it involves love) pleasing and rewarding. Its jobs will be too many to count, too many to report, too many to be publicly noticed or rewarded, too small to make anyone rich or famous.

Wendell Berry

The worst example of rural poverty is that of migrant farm workers. They have no permanent jobs, so they have no equity in the places where they work. They're not shareholders, let alone entrepreneurs. They're not small farmers, they're not market gardeners, they're just temporary - uprooted, isolated, easily exploitable people.

Walter Russell Mead

The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.

Walter Murch

This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.

Walter Mosley

My job is writing for people to enjoy and then writing about a broader and a deeper world.

Waite Hoyt

The secret of success in pitching lies in getting a job with the Yankees.

W. Somerset Maugham

Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.

Will Smith

If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who does a horrible job, but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%.

Warren Ellis

Writing is basically a job for people who like punching themselves in the face, I’m pretty sure.

Warren Christopher

Despite the demands of this job, one of the things my wife and I try to do is to spend time together alone. And one of the things we really enjoy doing together is seeing a good movie.

Warren Beatty

I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.

Warren Beatty

Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.

Warren Buffett

My job is essentially just corralling more and more and more facts and information, and occasionally seeing whether that leads to some action.

Warren Buffett

I have a wonderful family. I have a job that I love and wonderful people who help me with it. It can't get any better than that.

Warren Buffett

Take the job you would take if you were independently wealthy. You're going to do well at it.

Warren Buffett

You ought to be able to explain why you’re taking the job you’re taking, why you’re making the investment you’re making, or whatever it may be. And if it can’t stand applying pencil to paper, you’d better think it through some more. And if you can’t write an intelligent answer to those questions, don’t do it.

Warren Buffett

I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.

Warren Buffett

Never give up searching for the job that you're passionate about.

Warren Buffett

My rather puritanical view is that any investment manager, whether operating as broker, investment counselor of a trust department, investment company, etc., should be willing to state unequivocally what he is going to attempt to accomplish and how he proposes to measure the extent to which he gets the job done.

Warren Buffett

The latter qualification brings to mind a fellow who applied for a job and stated he had twenty years of experience-which was corrected by a former employer to read "one year's experience-twenty times.

Warren Buffett

Personally, I really hope I can treat everyone equally. I think I have done a pretty good job so far but I know I can do it better.

Warren Buffett

I look at everything. That's my job. I really do, every day. I think about everything.