Job Quotes

What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think 'outside the box,' people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done.

~ Steve Jobs

Google did a great job hacking the Web to create search - and then monetizing search with advertising. And Apple did a great job humanizing hardware and software so that formerly daunting computers and applications could become consumer-friendly devices - even a lifestyle brand.

~ Douglas Rushkoff

Science fiction has done a really good job of scaring us into thinking that computers shouldn't get too smart, because as soon as they get really smart, they're going to take over the world and kill us, or something like that. But why would they do that?

~ Luis Von Ahn

A smartphone is a computer - it's not built using a computer - the job it does is the job of being a computer. So, everything we say about computers, that the software you run should be free - you should insist on that - applies to smart phones just the same. And likewise to those tablets.

~ Richard Stallman

What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.

~ Phyllis Diller

I like to think I'm like the guy who goes to the office Christmas party Friday night, insults some people, but still has his job Monday morning.

~ Don Rickles

My first real job, I sold Christmas trees when I was twelve for extra money. I did that until I was fifteen. Then I bagged groceries, and I worked at the first Borders ever in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

~ Bill Hader

The most classic French dessert around the holidays is the Christmas log, with butter cream. Two flavors. Chocolate and coconut. My first job in the kitchen when I was a boy was to make these Christmas logs.

~ Alain Ducasse

Mentors provide professional networks, outlets for frustration, college and career counseling, general life advice, and most importantly, an extra voice telling a student they are smart enough and capable enough to cross the stage at graduation and land their first paycheck from a career pathway job.

~ Gerald Chertavian

Upon graduation, believe it or not, I had no job. I had no interviews. I had no prospects. I had no worries. What I did have, I had passion. I had enormous passion. I had passion for financial markets. I had fallen in love with financial markets.

~ Gary Cohn

The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.

~ Martha Reeves

After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month.

~ John Katzman

All my graduation money went to paying for bartending classes so I could have a side gig. I bartended for two months before I was supposed to move to New York and then two months later I got the job as an understudy in 'Sister Act' and haven't looked back since.

~ Patina Miller

A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see half of me, but it paid well. Thank God for commercials.

~ Lee Pace

Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.

~ Alana Stewart

A leader's job is not to do the work for others, it's to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done, and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.

~ Simon Sinek

Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job brilliantly done.

~ Robin S. Sharma

It's good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work.

~ Peter Thiel

Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you're a janitor or taking your first summer job, because that work ethic will be reflected in everything you do in life.

~ Tyler Perry

In the city, we work until quitting time. On the farm, we work until the job is finished.

~ John Bytheway

One thing an exceptional employee never says is, 'That's not in my job description.' Exceptional employees work outside the boundaries of job descriptions.

~ Travis Bradberry

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, sweat, and tears.

~ Simon Sinek

The job market of the future will consist of those jobs that robots cannot perform. Our blue-collar work is pattern recognition, making sense of what you see. Gardeners will still have jobs because every garden is different. The same goes for construction workers. The losers are white-collar workers, low-level accountants, brokers, and agents.

~ Michio Kaku

I am blessed to be able to work at a job I love and also give back in the most vital way - to people in need.

~ Teri Hatcher

If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who does a horrible job, but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%.

~ Will Smith

I think for anybody, regardless of what industry you work in, when you get a new job, and it's progressive in terms of your career, that is one of the best feelings in the world.

~ Will Poulter

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

~ H. Jackson Brown

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

I'm the luckiest guy in the world. I never really had a job. I was a football player, then a football coach, then a football broadcaster. It's been my life. Pro football has been my life since 1967. I've enjoyed every part of it. Never once did it ever feel like work.

~ John Madden

Unemployment insurance, abolishing child labor, the 40-hour work week, collective bargaining, strong banking regulations, deposit insurance, and job programs that put millions of people to work were all described, in one way or another, as 'socialist.' Yet, these programs have become the fabric of our nation and the foundation of the middle class.

~ Bernie Sanders

When you delegate work to the member of the team, your job is to clearly frame success and describe the objectives.

~ Steven Sinofsky

I'm a geek through and through. My last job at Microsoft was leading much of the search engine relevance work on Bing. There we got to play with huge amounts of data, with neural networks and other AI techniques, with massive server farms.

~ Ramez Naam

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

~ Joseph Campbell

I won an amateur night, October 8th, 1985. I went to work the next day and quit my job.

~ Steve Harvey

The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.

~ James Cash Penney

The idea of having a steady job is appealing.

~ Robin Williams

Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.

~ Michael Korda

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.

~ William Feather

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

~ Charles Kettering

And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.

~ Donald Norman