Better Jobs Quotes

• The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work

  Steve Jobs

  Work, Believe, Loving What You Do

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy.

  Steve Jobs

  Memorable, Best Job, Pirate

  "Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple - A Journey of Adventure, Ideas, and the Future" by John Sculley and John A. Byrne, (p. 157), 1987.

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• And we've all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Damn, Chosen

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• Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Running, Teenager

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• If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Graduation

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

  Steve Jobs

  Design, Understanding, Dots

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.41, Prabhat Prakashan

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• My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.

  Steve Jobs

  Motivational, Leadership, Jobs

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• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, People, Perspective

  "Steve Jobs: The next insanely great thing". Interview with Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. February 1, 1996.

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• I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a better job.'

  Andrea Jung

  Jobs, Thinking, Apples

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• Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways.

  Tony Campolo

  Jobs, People, Guilt

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• Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that's what everybody needs to know.

  Clint Eastwood

  Running, Country, Jobs

  "Eastwood says his convention appearance was 'mission accomplished'" by Paul Miller, www.pineconearchive.com. September 7, 2012.

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• I think that the churches do a better job in many respects than the government does in various kinds of things. Extending aid, the helpfulness, and so on, yes.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Jobs, Thinking, Government

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. December 26, 2004.

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• There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.

  Doris Lessing

  Jobs, Truth, Writing

  "Under My Skin". Book by Doris Lessing, www.theguardian.com. 1994.

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• It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Jobs, People, Team Building

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• We need to do a better job of keeping oceans healthy.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Jobs, Ocean, Healthy

  "Interview with Actress Sigourney Weaver". "Talk Asia", edition.cnn.com. July 6, 2011.

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• I like Obama. I don't know who could do a better job. He's got an incredibly tough situation, and a good heart and mind. I'd like to see him rally support a little better.

  Ted Turner

  Jobs, Heart, Support

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• As a reporter having covered him for eight years in the White House, I am sure the media could have done a better job if we had known the real Ronald Reagan.

  Helen Thomas

  Jobs, Real, Eight

  "Bob Schieffer Whacks Bernie Goldberg: He 'Makes A Living Criticizing CBS News'" by Tim Graham, www.newsbusters.org. April 9, 2009.

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• Applause is interesting, but I'm a monster with or without it. Something is either well written or it isn't. 'White Rabbit' is not well written, and no amount of applause or royalties can convince me it is. I could have done a better job with those lyrics. They didn't say what I wanted.

  Grace Slick

  Jobs, White, Interesting

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• I think I would do a much better job if I had a chance to do things that were edgier than I get to do in comedies.

  Sean William Scott

  Jobs, Thinking, Comedy

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• Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we're scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don't have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list.

  Michelle Obama

  Jobs, Women, Eye

  "Encouraging Quotes from Michelle Obama", www.beliefnet.com.

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• When a positive exchange between a brand and customers becomes quantifiable metrics, it encourages brand to provide better service, customer service to do a better job, and consumers to actively show their gratitude.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Gratitude, Jobs, Educational

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• It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.

  Ron Livingston

  Jobs, Work, Fire

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My mom and my dad wanted my brother and I to have a better life, you know, better education, better jobs. It was probably harder, much, much harder, for my parents. When you're a kid, you can learn a language much more easily; I learned English in less than a year.

  Mila Kunis

  Mom, Brother, Jobs

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• We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list.

  Michelle Obama

  Jobs, Balance, Needs

  "Encouraging Quotes from Michelle Obama", www.beliefnet.com.

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