Job Quotes, Quotations & Sayings

Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.
Maggie Gallagher

I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren’t paying enough to keep families out of poverty.
Barbara Mikulski

We’re living proof that you don’t need talent or good looks to make it in music. People ask what it takes to become a successful rock band. I always say just f**king quit your job and live on the street. And when you get really hungry you’ll
Paul Leary

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.
Margaret Thatcher

We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.
Neil Armstrong

I had a deliberate plan to get into movies by becoming a model, so I went to New York and got a job pretending to be a mannequin in store windows.
Geena Davis

Come forth, Lazarus! And he came fifth and lost the job.
James Joyce

Instead of creating new jobs, Republicans gave tax cuts to companies that send jobs overseas.
Joe Baca

Parenting is an impossible job at any age.
Harrison Ford

Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation’s highways.
Dennis Miller

Can you imagine the Founding Fathers saying that the major source of authority in [your] life can make you drop your pants and urinate as a condition of getting or keeping a job?
Gene Guerrero

I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it’s not my style. I want to make my money as a retailer, not by putting people out of work.
Philip Green

It’s a great chance and opportunity for me to go out and try to prove myself and compete for the job. Whether it’s right now or I sit behind a guy and push him through practice for however long it takes, I’m just ready to go and compete.
JaMarcus Russell

Trade creates jobs and lifts people out of poverty. And when that happens, societies stabilize and grow. And there is nothing like a stable society to fight terrorism and strengthen democracy, freedom and rule of law.
Dennis Hastert

Al Gore has found a new job. He is going to teach journalism at Columbia University, which is ironic isn’t it? The guy who did all the coke winds up going to the White House, the guy who didn’t do coke goes to Columbia.
Jay Leno

Garden: A thing of beauty and a job forever.
Anonymous

The way we’re really going to grow the economy is to invest in people, to invest in innovation, to have the federal government put money in the kind of research that will create the new high-technology, biotechnology industries that will create the millions of new jobs.
Joe Lieberman

When we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We are not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
Joseph Campbell

So I don’t really focus too much on that, and I think it’s dangerous if your goal in life is to get the other guy, then you’re not going to be doing a really quality job yourself.
Katie Couric

Small businesses are vital contributors to our economy. They are the economic engine that is creating jobs, exploring innovation, and expanding opportunities for Americans in every community across the Nation.
Allyson Schwartz

I have been increasingly moved to wonder whether my job is a job or a racket, whether economists, and particularly economic theorists, may not be in the position that Cicero, citing Cato, ascribed to the augurs of Romeöthat they should cover their faces or burst into laughter when they met on the street.
Frank Hyneman Knight

What I’m getting at is, you know, if we really want to get serious about helping all the people living in the street and getting people jobs, we could just hire half the people in the country to spy on the other half.
Jello Biafra

It makes me angry to think that . . . female sanitation workers will spend their days doing a job most of their co-workers think they can’t handle, and then they will go home and do another job most of their co-workers don’t want.
Anna Quindlen

President Bush has said that the ecomnomy is growing, that there are jobs out there. But you know, it’s a long commute to China to get those jobs.
Tom Daschle

Try handling problems in the office as dispassionately as you can and I guarantee you will have a better time of it; not least because when you bring emotion into the conversation, you furnish your colleagues with an easy “out” for dismissing you. If you are able to strip out the emotion, however, people have to deal with you based on the facts.
Suze Orman

And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.
Shaquille O’Neal

I feel fine, I don’t care who the director is. All you have to do is know what your doing - all of us - everybody in the business - that’s all you ask anyone - you know your job, I know mine, let’s go do it.
Morgan Freeman

It never entered my father’s mind nor my mind ever to do a job othe than at one’s best ability.
Lord Mountbatten

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There’s no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn’t a gift. It’s a responsibility.
Dalton Trumbo

I think it’s still hard for me to turn down work if it’s really good because for so many years I was so desperate to get a job and couldn’t and so it’s kind of an anathema for me to turn down work.
Matt Damon