Job Quotes

The story of Detroit's bankruptcy was simple enough: Allow capitalism to grow the city, campaign against income inequality, tax the job creators until they flee, increase government spending in order to boost employment, promise generous pension plans to keep people voting for failure. Rinse, wash and repeat.

~ Ben Shapiro

I've accepted that I was a failure in politics. I was not qualified for the job.

~ Amitabh Bachchan

I wouldn't call Loopt a failure. It didn't turn out like I wanted, for sure, but it was fun, I learned a lot, and I made enough money to start investing, which led me to my current job. I don't regret it at all.

~ Sam Altman

Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness and failure in love.

~ Elvis Costello

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.

~ Margaret Thatcher

I don't have time for hobbies. At the end of the day, I treat my job as a hobby. It's something I love doing.

~ David Beckham

There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature.

~ Ayelet Waldman

If two very different people pool their DNA, they'll create more genetic variety, and their young will come to the job of parenting with a wider array of skills.

~ Helen Fisher

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

~ Dennis Miller

As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.

~ Roseanne Barr

Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

~ Harrison Ford

No work-family balance will ever fully take hold if the social conditions that might make it possible - men who are willing to share parenting and housework, communities that value work in the home as highly as work on the job, and policymakers and elected officials who are prepared to demand family-friendly reforms - remain out of reach.

~ Arlie Russell Hochschild

The battle to find a workplace that's wheelchair accessible is a feat in itself, let alone an employer who's going to be cool about employing someone with a disability in a job you actually want to do.

~ Stella Young

It's cool to have critical success because it's always nice for your peers to say, 'Good job.' But who cares about them?

~ Zac Hanson

But being on location and shooting, whether its in Puerto Rico or Atlanta, it always reminds me of how really cool my job can be. Interacting with the fans is one of the best parts of it.

~ Dwayne Johnson

You make your first album, you make some money, and you feel like you still have to show face, like 'I still go to the projects.' I'm like, why? Your job is to inspire people from your neighborhood to get out. You grew up there. What makes you think it's so cool?

~ Jay-Z

I really, really, really love my job, so it's not like I'm trying to quit wrestling to do movies. They just all seemed like cool things to do. I mean, I'd love to be the bad guy in an action movie because then people would get to see another side of me they don't get to see.

~ John Cena

What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.

~ Laura Dern

An Oklahoma girl like me wouldn't even know how to be a diva. I'm just a person who has a cool job. I love to be at home. I rarely go to clubs... and I always wear underwear! I just know I'd fall down, and that's not for everyone to see.

~ Carrie Underwood

Because of my job, I get a lot of opportunity to grab a few days here and there in many cool cities for press commitments, magazine shoots and premieres - Barcelona, Madrid, Rome, Paris, Stockholm, New York, Berlin. I always try to get to a gallery or museum if there's time.

~ Natalie Dormer

I have to be out there to sell these fights; it's not because I really enjoy getting made up and going to work every day. It's cool, it's an awesome job, but it's still a job. I'm doing it because it helps me make a living and not because I'm so extremely vain that I want to see my face everywhere.

~ Ronda Rousey

The truth is, we have this idea that late night is about creativity and being cool, but that's not our job. Our job is to get as many people watching the commercials in between our show. That's the reality of it.

~ Jimmy Kimmel

It is very helpful to me, in my job, for people to know me better. A lot of that is, it's a communication job.

~ Ben Horowitz

We are not advertising ourselves as a secure platform. It's a communication platform. It's not our job to police the world or Snapchat of jerks.

~ Evan Spiegel

Democracy is interactive... It's a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication.

~ Dick Gephardt

As a whole, the managers today are different in temperament. Most have very good communication skills and are more understanding of the umpire's job. That doesn't mean they are better managers. It just means that I perceive today's managers a bit differently.

~ Jim Evans

A lot of the music editing job is communication and working out what a director really wants the music to be.

~ Steven Price

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

~ Muhammad Ali

I like sports, and swimming is my favorite. Doing physical exercises keeps one fit and healthy and helps one work more efficiently. I think we all need to strike a balance between work and relaxation. This can keep us energetic and help us do our job better.

~ Xi Jinping

It's not just the kid who's spent every penny from his job to upgrade his car to tell the world he cares about sports cars, it's also the person driving around in a fuel-conscious hybrid electric car, because it's more a message to the world than an effective means of saving fuel, to be quite honest.

~ Richard Hammond

But sports photography isn't something you just pick up overnight. You can't do it once a year for fun and expect to do a good job. And I take pride in what I do.

~ Drew Carey

I never heard of anyone saying they want to deploy their capital wisely and go buy a sports franchise. What you want to do is just not lose money. You see, I don't have to work anymore. I tell people I don't have a real job. On the other hand, I learned long ago that you can't go broke if you turn a profit.

~ Jerry Reinsdorf

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

~ Steve Jobs

While social media skills were once a 'nice-to-have,' accreditation in the space is becoming a requirement for many of these job titles. Hiring managers and job seekers are realizing that printing stacks of resumes is turning passe, and social media is rising as the new way of generating real-time networking opportunities.

~ Ryan Holmes

I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form.

~ Anish Kapoor

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.

~ Christa Mcauliffe

So many times, when you're doing a job, you feel like you're a nuisance at times to people, intruding on their space when you ask them questions; maybe they don't want to deal with you at the time. And now, it's, 'Hey, welcome, where's Craig?' Whereas, now, it's kind of different.

~ Craig Sager

Because of my job, my hair gets played with a lot on set, so I try to give it little bit of breathing space when I'm not working.

~ Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Astronauts have been stuck in low-Earth orbit, boldly going nowhere. American attempts to kick-start a new phase of lunar exploration have stalled amid the realisation that NASA's budget is too small for the job.

~ Paul Davies

My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for students on earth about life in space and on the space shuttle and conducting experiments.

~ Christa Mcauliffe