Job Quotes

Leadership’s primary job is to enhance creative capacity by developing collectively effective leadership.

~ William A. Adams

You talk to leadership in China, and THEY are all the engineers. They get what is going on immediately. The Americans don't because they're all lawyers.

~ John Doerr

The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following instructions, meeting spec, and being managed.Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can.The job might be difficult, it might require skill, but it's a job.Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it. Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.I call the process of doing your art 'the work.' It's possible to have a job and do the work, too. In fact, that's how you become a linchpin.The job is not the work.

~ Seth Godin

You wander. You work nearly every job known to man, it seems, only to arrive at the wonderings of philosophy.

~ Criss Jami

There is enough work for every soul, if we use our specific gifts to meet the specific needs of the society.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

~ Jimmy Johnson

Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking.

~ John Kennedy Toole

That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.

~ Charles Bukowski

I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.

~ Simon Sinek

Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

~ Mark Twain

My job is to scream cockle-doodle-doo. Don't blame me if the sun doesn't rise.

~ Janet Skeslien Charles

I now have anti-bodies to assholes after working for so many.

~ Crystal Woods

Cat, I'll let you in on a little secret. We don't all love our jobs every day. And doing something you have passion for doesn't make the work part of it any easier...It just makes you less likely to quit.

~ Kate Jacobs

You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well, and not be always saying, There’s this and there’s that—if I had this or that to do, I might make something of it. No matter what a man is—I wouldn’t give twopence for him’— here Caleb’s mouth looked bitter, and he snapped his fingers— ‘whether he was the prime minister or the rick-thatcher, if he didn’t do well what he undertook to do.

~ George Eliot

I worked out what would make me happy, and I worked out what I wanted to do, and I trained myself to do the job that would make those two things happen' 'You make it sound so simple.''It is simple,' he said. 'The thing is, it's also a lot of hard work. And people don't want to put in a lot of work.

~ Jojo Moyes

The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

~ Phil Jackson

The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.

~ Núria Añó

The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Being by his faith replaced afresh in paradise and created anew, he (the believer)does not need works for his justification, but that he may not be idle, but that he may exercise his own body and preserve it. His works are to be done freely, with the sole object of pleasing God.

~ Martin Luther

I earned a mater's degree in journalism and took the first job offered, as a sports writer. Instead of chasing my own fame, I wrote about famous athletes chasing theirs.

~ Mitch Albom

Do all the work you can while you still have strength.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you can't give it all you've got, don't bother.

~ Joyce Rachelle

O God give me enough grace for my daily work.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There is no competition in work. Many a man wants glory but fails to work.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Don't hire anyone you wouldn't want to run into in the hallway at three in the morning.

~ Tina Fey

Sometimes the gap between what you are and what you want to be is a little piece of paper called your college degree. So jump.

~ Joyce Rachelle

When at work, be diligent because there are many people who wish they had your job, but they couldn't since you are the one who got.

~ Gift Gugu Mona

Workdays are, I imagine, rather like learning to ice-skate Torvill and Dean’s The Bolero. They start and end easily enough; it’s the bit in the middle that causes the pain in the arse.

~ Fennel Hudson

Rich people don’t work for money, they are doing what they like to do; they devote themselves to a job they love and do not live waiting for a well-deserved rest or retirement, but work passionately until the end of their lives

~ Sunday Adelaja

For the present time, just do your job well

~ Sunday Adelaja

Every profession is an island whose inhabitants earn a precarious living by taking in each other’s washing.

~ Amanda Craig

...if you do the job no one wants, you might eventually get the job everybody wants. But you have to be willing to climb the ladder, starting with the bottom rung.

~ Mark Batterson

With today’s technology, social attitudes and appetite for self-actualisation, we’d ideally look upon our work with a sense of pride, involvement and accomplishment. But we’re rarely given the chance. Instead, we pretend to love our jobs with an almost idiotic zeal, while being secretly exhausted and insulted by them.

~ Robert Wringham

A job is the ultimate pyramid scheme.

~ Ken Poirot

As I indicated in an earlier chapter, it is so important to pause and think through some of these basic issues while you are young, before the pressures of job and family become distracting. Everyone must deal with the eternal questions sooner or later. You will benefit, I think, from doing that work now. As I said earlier, whether you are an atheist, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew, a New Ager, an agnostic, or a Christian, the questions confronting the human family are the same. Only the answers will differ.

~ James C. Dobson

I had never considered that you might miss a job like you missed a limb -- a constant, reflexive thing. I hadn't thought as well as the obvious fears about money, and your future, losing your job would make you feel inadequate, and a bit useless. That it would be harder to get up in the morning than you were rudely shocked in to consciousness by the alarm. That you might missed the people you worked with, no matter how little you had in common with them.

~ Jojo Moyes

Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live.

~ Criss Jami

God whispered, You endured a lot. For that I am truly sorry, but grateful. I needed you to struggle to help so many. Through that process you would grow into who you have now become. Didn't you know that I gave all my struggles to my favorite children? One only needs to look at the struggles given to your older brother Jesus to know how important you have been to me.

~ Shannon L. Alder

In many cases, it was the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that fell for her man.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana