Quotes about jobs
jobs fun father
I considered a lot of different jobs as a kid. I thought about becoming a priest or a lawyer. My father had a big linen-supply business and I considered working for him. What dawned on me was: 'If I'm an actor, I get to do the fun parts of every job!' Without having to go to four years of law school. John C. Reilly
jobs positivity looks
Positivity is an inside job that makes the outside look a lot better. John C. Maxwell
jobs war winning
Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve, you have to win the war in your thinking first. You can't let the failure outside you get inside you.
jobs thinking skills
Most people who want to get ahead do it backward. They think, 'I'll get a bigger job, then I'll learn how to be a leader.' But showing leadership skill is how you get the bigger job in the first place. Leadership isn't a position, it's a process.
jobs laws people permits
The laws are OK. They're tough, but we comply. We need people to do their jobs and get us permits when we need them. Bruce Williams
jobs loss
The loss of manufacturing jobs after 2000 was just huge, and those jobs haven't come back.
jobs loss pleasant short term
The loss of jobs is never a pleasant thing. I know short term this is unpleasant, but I know long term we'll come out on top. Cindy Adams
jobs motivation challenges
He's stepping up to challenge me. Anybody that challenges me, has got to get dogged out. That's my job. James Toney
jobs attitude thinking
Our attitude has always been that if you hire good people and provide good wages and good jobs and more than that - if you provide careers - that good things will happen to your company. I think we can say that that has been proved by the quality of people that we have and how they have built our organization. James Sinegal
jobs men years
If somehow a proclamation were made that C.E.O.'s could only make a maximum of $300,000 a year, you would not have any shortage of very qualified men and women seeking the jobs.
jobs careers people
When you hire good people, and you provide good jobs and good wages and a career, good things are going to happen.
jobs mistake educated
You take an educated gamble. If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you're not doing your job.
jobs passion views
Acting for me, is a passion, but it's also a job, and I've always approached it as such. I have a certain manual-laborist view of acting. There's no shame in taking a film because you need some money. James Spader
jobs different three
Working in theater, film or television are three different jobs for an actor, and I accept them as such.
jobs book color
The script is the coloring book that you're given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And also when and where to color outside the lines.
jobs long people
Being out of a job can erode people's confidence and their sense of possibility; and employers, often unfairly, tend to take long-term unemployment as a signal that something is wrong. James Surowiecki
jobs believe circles
Of course, looking tough on inflation is part of any central banker's job description: if investors believe that inflation is going to get out of control, you end up with higher interest rates and capital flight, and a vicious circle quickly ensues.
jobs government principles
A general principle of good taxation is that similar jobs, and similar kinds of compensation, should be taxed the same way: otherwise, the government is effectively subsidizing some jobs over others.
jobs average-joe impact
Steve Jobs was rare: a C.E.O. who actually had a huge impact on his company's fortunes. Contrary to corporate mythology, most C.E.O.s could be easily replaced, if not by your average Joe, then by your average executive vice-president. But Jobs genuinely earned the label of superstar.
jobs cost wages
What an economy really wants, after all, is not more investment per se but better investment. It wants capital to flow to companies that will create value - not in the form of a rising stock price but in the form of more goods for less cost, more jobs, and rising wages - by enhancing productivity.
jobs people done
You'll sometimes hear from people that they actually do a better job of getting their work done when they have a lot of other obligations - in effect, it removes the possibility of procrastinating.
jobs people able
Older people do a better job of managing their impulses, and so they're better able to put off putting off.
jobs procrastination self
Procrastination also can be a way of self-handicapping: if you don't do a great job, you can always say to yourself, "If I'd only started sooner, I'd have been able to produce something excellent."
jobs careers listening
The paradox of Steve Jobs's career is that he had no interest in listening to consumers - he was famously dismissive of market research - yet nonetheless had an amazing sense of what consumers actually wanted.
jobs believe winning
I genuinely believe if we get the chance to do something in Sydney, the people of Australia will win out of that proposal. There will be jobs, taxes, tourism - there'll be more people coming to Australia looking to spend money and I think that is a good thing. James Packer
jobs real differences
People can make a real difference. One person at a time, one job at a time, one life at a time.
jobs war tired
We didn't start this war - the right wing did. We're tired of seeing good-paying jobs shipped overseas. This fight is about the economy, it's about jobs and it's about rebuilding America. James P. Hoffa
jobs mistake people
And some of those people that voted Republican are now going to say, what a mistake I made because I didn't know they were going to take my job away. I didn't know they were going to take collective bargaining away.
jobs uncles book
It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like. James Patterson
jobs crazy book
I didn't care for most of the books I was being asked to read in school. I started reading like crazy right after high school when I got a job in a mental hospital. I was working my way through college, and I did a lot of night shifts, and there was nothing to do. So I read like crazy, serious stuff, all the classics.
jobs like-her receptionists
The receptionist looked us over, then went back to typing something incredibly urgent—like her résumé́ for another job.
jobs kids
Its not my job to feed your kids James Moore
jobs children school
Certainly, we want to make sure that kids go to school full-bellied, but is that always the government's job to be there to serve people their breakfast? Is it my job to feed my neighbour's child? I don't think so.