Job Quotes, Quotations & Sayings

Being a husband is a whole time job.That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.
Arnold Bennett

There’s no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
Wayne Dyer

Obviously we want to keep the jobs we’ve got.
Jennifer Granholm

Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.
Douglas Adams

The number one sign you have nothing to do at work: The 4th Division of Paperclips has overrun the Pushpin Infantry and General White-Out has called for a new skirmish.
Fred Barling

If they will only do their job that is all that they are being overpaid for.
David Oliver Selznick

Let’s take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
Eartha Kitt

I’d be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as long as I was writing songs. She said, ‘As long as you’re seriously working on music, I’ll support you. Don’t get a job, because if you work, it will crush you.’
Rufus Wainwright

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
Golda Meir

My job is a job to make decisions. I’m a decision.. if the job description were, what do you do.. it’s decision maker.
George Bushism

It’s not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters.
Vanna White

My job is to make people money. If I don’t include every factor that moves a stock-market psychology included-then I’m not doing my job.
Thomas Kurlak

My job as the writer is to fool you. Your job as the reader is to see if you can catch me at it.
Sue Grafton

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
Henry David Thoreau

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
Dean Acheson

My job, as I see it, has never been to laya tit’s egg, but to erupt like a volcano emitting not only flame but a lot of rubbish.
Grieve

We’re leaving the House to people who either were born with a silver spoon in their mouth… or couldn’t get better jobs in the first place.
Jerry Lewis

We want passion for our business.. workers who can interpret and execute our mission, who want to build a career, not just take a temporary job.
Howard Schultz

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home or in the office.
Gloria Steinem

Our job is only to hold up the mirror — to tell and show the public what has happened.
Walter Cronkite

I couldn’t get any jobs, and when that happens, you get so humble it’s disgusting. I didn’t feel like a man anymore –I felt really creepy. I was bumping into walls and saying, “Excuse me.”
Joe Pesci

Masochism is a valuable job skill.
Chuck Palahniuk

I wantthe $60 GI job and no medals on my chest.
Dwight Eisenhower

The man lies late since he has lost his job, smokes on one elbow, letting his coughs fall thinly into an air too poor to rob.
Edwin George Morgan

A job on a newspaper is a special thing. Every day you take something that you found out about, and you put it down and in a matter of hours it becomes a product. Not just a product like a can or something.
Jimmy Breslin

Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.
Solomon Ortiz

I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can’t be grown up unless you’re moaning about your job.
Robert Smith

You don’t concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.
Chuck Yeager

You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
Larry Flynt

Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.
Herbert Hoover