Jobs Quotes - Page 18

• Thousands of Mexicans gathered in Mexico City to protest high food prices. The protest only lasted an hour, because everyone had to leave for their jobs in Los Angeles

  Conan O'Brien

  Inspiration, Cities, Mexico

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• To be efficient means getting the job done in a smart, resourceful and timely way. To be effective means getting the right job done well, efficiently or not.

  Thomas Leonard

  Inspirational, Smart, Mean

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• Teachers all over the nation are doing the job they are asked to do, but one they are not really prepared to do. To teach volleyball as a physical activity that is also a positive experience. If you care about volleyball, help these teachers have fun and learn more of this great game. Teach the teachers.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Volleyball, Teacher

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• No one would wish a bad marriage on anyone. But where do we think good marriages come from? They don't spring full blown from the head of Zeus any more than does a good education...Why should a marriage require fewer tears and less toil and shabbier commitment than your job or your clothes or your car?

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Marriage, Spring, Commitment

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• There are a lot of bitter people out there who have got jobs that they hate and the key to life for me is doing something you love doing.

  Danny Dyer

  Hate, Keys, People

  "Interview: Danny Dyer and Tamer Hassan". Interview with Samantha Peliza, uk.askmen.com.

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• Ed Woolard, his mentor on the Apple board, pressed Jobs for more than two years to drop the interim in front of his CEO title. Not only was Jobs refusing to commit himself, but he was baffling everyone by taking only $1 a year in pay and no stock options. I make 50 cents for showing up, he liked to joke, and the other 50 cents is based on performance.

  Walter Isaacson

  Two, Apples, Years

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• Coaches should realize that the only way to conquer drudgery is by getting through it as efficiently as they can. A dull job slackly done becomes twice as dull, whereas a dull job performed as efficiently as possible becomes half as dull. Effort appears to be the main art of living.

  Harold Nicolson

  Sports, Art, Effort

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• Officiating is the only job in America that everybody knows how to do better than the guy who is doing it.

  Larry Goetz

  Sports, America, Guy

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• I observed that the successful farmer worked at his job. He would do his plowing, disking, harrowing, seeding, and harvesting in the proper season and at the proper time, while his neighbor was procrastinating, or off hunting and fishing while the work was still to be done. We must learn to set our priorities straight. No one can be successful in his line of work unless he works at it in the proper season and plays in the proper season.

  Nathan Eldon Tanner

  Successful, Hunting, Fishing

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• If you ask for good schools, you aren't likely to get them. If you ask for jobs or economic investment, you won't get that either. But what we have learned, is that the one thing that poor folks of color can ask for and get are Police & Prisons.

  Michelle Alexander

  School, Color, Police

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• How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That's a really really really large and complex set of skills. A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.

  Ben Horowitz

  Skills, Training, Mentor

  "HOROWITZ TELLS ALL: This Guy Just Raised A $1.5 Billion Fund". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. January 31, 2012.

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• Never argue with a man whose job depends on not being convinced.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Arguing, Depends

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• If start-up activity is the true engine of job creation in America, one thing is clear: our current educational system is acting as the brakes. Simply put, from kindergarten through undergraduate and grad school, you learn very few skills or attitudes that would ever help you start a business.

  Michael Ellsberg

  Attitude, Educational, School

  "Will Dropouts Save America?". www.nytimes.com. October 22, 2011.

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• I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That’s what makes me interested in them, that they didn’t present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.

  Imelda Staunton

  Idols, Actresses, Adore

  "Vera Drake: Imelda Staunton about Mike Leigh". Interview with Emanuel Levy, emanuellevy.com. February 9, 2005.

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• President Bush's approval ratings have taken somewhat of a dive. A senior slump, if you will. Leading President Bush to one conclusion: He is the only one who realizes what a great job he's being doing.

  Jon Stewart

  Senior, Taken, Approval Rating

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• Michael Brown, the director of FEMA, was nominated by President Bush in 2003 and plans to start the job any day now. ... Prior to heading FEMA, Brown spent the 90's as a commissioner -- this is true -- of the International Arabian Horse Association. I guess he stands out because most Bush appointees are beholden to Arabian people.

  Jon Stewart

  Horse, People, President

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• There have been times I've finished a big job and thought, 'Great, a couple of weeks off.' But then a couple of weeks turns to three weeks and then after a month you're staring at the phone willing it to ring.

  Johnny Vegas

  Couple, Phones, Three

  "Johnny Vegas: Boozy comic sheds six stone as he tries to clean up his act" by Beth Neil, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2009.

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• The shortest path to more American jobs is more American energy and more jobs that relate to American energy.

  Roy Blunt

  Energy, Path, Relate

  "Sperling, Blunt, Menendez and Huntsman". "State of the Union", www.realclearpolitics.com. December 18, 2011.

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• I've got God's shoulder to cry on. And I cry a lot. I do a lot of crying in this job. I'll bet I've shed more tears than you can count, as president.

  George W. Bush

  Tears, President, Cry

  "Dead Certain". Book by Robert Draper, September 4, 2007.

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• Trying to stop suiciders -- which we're doing a pretty good job of on occasion -- is difficult to do. And what the Iraqis are going to have to eventually do is convince those who are conducting suiciders who are not inspired by Al Qaeda, for example, to realize there's a peaceful tomorrow.

  George W. Bush

  Peaceful, Trying, Example

  Press Conference with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel, www.washingtonpost.com. May 23, 2006.

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• The way to create jobs is to encourage private sector job creators.

  Roy Blunt

  Way, Private Sector, Creator

  "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 11, 2011.

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• I always watched movies and rooted for the bad guys, you know? I've always been that kind of guy. I still hold some respect for criminals that are good at their jobs.

  Justin Townes Earle

  Guy, Criminals, Kind

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• My advice: Don't quit. When I got to New York City, I lived so far below the poverty line, because I didn't give in and get a job at 7-Eleven. I think you can thrive in misery.

  Rob Zombie

  New York, Thinking, Cities

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• And what my constitutional values are are wholly irrelevant to the job, and so neither you nor anyone else will know what they are.

  Elena Kagan

  Knows, Irrelevant, Values

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• A simple job for simple people.

  Curly Howard

  Simple, People, Three Stooges

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