Job Quotes

A question is a door and an unopened door is just part of the wall and as long as it's standing it's doing its job.

~ Brian Mcgreevy

... In a ROWE* people don't have schedules.They show up when they want.They don't have to be in the office at certain time, or anytime.They just have to get their work done.How they do it ?When they do it ?Where they do it ?It's totally up to them.Meetings & this kind of environments are Optional.What happens ... ?Almost across the board !- Productivity goes up- Worker Engagement goes up- Worker Satisfaction goes up- Turnovers goes down- Autonomy .. Mastery .. Purpose -these are the building blocks of new way of doing things.______________________________________________________________*ROWE: results-only work environment

~ Daniel H. Pink

A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A job interview is a competition won by those who are qualified the most, and, those who are willing to be payed the least.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To a man, a woman is fun to be with … until she gains weight. To a woman, a man is fun to live with … until he loses his job.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The rich spend their life living, the poor spend their life making a living.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

This is not his job, I thought, it's his passion.

~ Howard Schultz

12% of employees study further to learn more. 88% of employees study further to earn more.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Torn clothes are funny … until your dad gets fired.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

My job is to know what other people do not know.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

A vagina is an uneducated woman’s diploma.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

People who like their job will give it their best. Those who don't, show it by a poor performance.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

When we perform at our highest level of potential, we are content. Because we have given I best in what we enjoy doing.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

Say this one time with me: Would you like that in a pump or a loafer?... Good. Now memorize it, because starting tomorrow, the only job that you're going to be able to get is selling SHOES!

~ George Huang

I wasn't sleeping on the streets at night. Of course, there were a lot of good people sleeping in the streets. They weren't fools, they just didn't fit into the needed machinery of the moment. And those needs kept altering.

~ Charles Bukowski

The primary purpose of going to college isn't to get a great job. The primary purpose of college is to build a strong mind, which leads to greater self-awareness, capability, fulfillment, and service opportunities, which, incidentally, should lead to a better job.

~ Sean Covey

For God's sakes, quit worrying about your next job. Just do the best you can at the job you have now, and the offers will come. And when they do, if you have confidence in yourself you don't have to feel that you can't turn it down if it isn't quite right for you because you fear you'll never get another offer. You will. Wait for the right opportunity, and turn down all the rest. It will make all the difference.

~ Bo Schembechler

... a practical problem can only be solved by action itself. When your practical problem is how to earn a living, a book on how to make friends and influence people cannot solve it, though it may suggest things to do. Nothing short of the doing solves the problem. It is solved only by earning a living.

~ Mortimer J. Adler

The American College of Sports Medicine found that the productivity of people after exercise was an average of 65 percent higher than those who did not exercise. If I have something that's really bothering me, so much that it almost hurts my head to try to sort it out, I always find the solution in a puddle of sweat! Intense exercise is like taking a magic pill that gives you the ability to solve problems like a superhero.

~ Chalene Johnson

For the man in the paddock, whose duty is is to sweep up manure,the supreme terror is the possibility of a world without horses. Totell him that it is disgusting to spend one’s life shoveling up hotturds is a piece of imbecility. A man can get to love shit if hislivelihood depends on it, if his happiness is involved.

~ Henry Miller

Make no mistake: Your salary is held to the same standards your grades were held to in the educational system, where you couldn't surpass a 100 no matter how hard you worked or how intelligent you were.

~ Carlos Roche

We are trained to be employees, but no one said that we have endure a limited salary that barely keeps pace with inflation.

~ Carlos Roche

For most of us a job is bread and butter and for most of others its just bread and butter.

~ Aniruddha Sastikar

If you need an alarm clock, you need a new job.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

It was his vocation to pleasure as many women as possible, in pursuit of his own pleasure. It was as close to a job as he got.

~ Rosanna Leo

A big name or a big designation doesn't make a man big but responsibilities do.

~ Vikash Shrivastava

I remember when I was twenty-five,� he said. “No client comes to you when you’re twenty-five. It’s like when you are looking for a doctor. You don’t want the new one that just graduated. You don’t want the very old one, the one shaking, the one twenty years past his prime. You want the seasoned one who has done it so many times he can do it in his sleep though. Same thing with attorneys.

~ Daniel Amory

If self-employment is the opposite of employed-by-other, than a job is outsourcing your freedom (time and talent) to a boss.

~ Richie Norton

Starting your own business isn't just a job - it's a way of life.

~ Richard Branson

And fifth, we will champion small businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare.

~ Mitt Romney

It's the job of any business owner to be clear about the company's nonnegotiable core values. They're the riverbanks that help guide us as we refine and improve on performance and excellence. A lack of riverbanks creates estuaries and cloudy waters that are confusing to navigate. I want a crystal-clear, swiftly flowing stream.

~ Danny Meyer

There are no right and wrong ways to work in this business, but there are some basic common-sense practices. Work very, very hard and always be prepared; never give up; and once you get the job, give them more than they ever expected: - Shine!

~ Jimmy Smits

There isn't an amount of money you could offer me to do reality TV. I would rather get my job back on the building site. Or I could own a construction business. Maybe I could retire to my house in Long Island and take up painting, like Captain Beefheart. A crazy recluse: I like that idea.

~ Dave Gahan

Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me, Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You.

~ Tom Peters

You gotta have fun. Regardless of how you look at it, we're playing a game. It's a business, it's our job, but I don't think you can do well unless you're having fun.

~ Derek Jeter

Just the fact that I've lived more, and I'm not concerned about when I am going to get my next job anymore. This business is free-lance and it's not a steady job. Younger, I would have been more preoccupied with myself.

~ Raul Julia

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

My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

~ Ted Turner

It's not government that creates jobs; it's small business. Our job is to make sure they have the access to capital, the access to contracting opportunities, and the help, advice and mentoring that they need to go out and be successful.

~ Karen Mills

As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business.

~ Rocco Dispirito