New Job Quotes - Page 8

• I got a new job.” Patch locked eyes with me, and I warmed in a lot of places. In fact, I was dangerously close to feverish.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Jobs, Eye, Facts

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't listen to people telling you that getting up early is best. René Descartes is one of history's most important philosophers, but he rarely got out of bed before noon - and when he started getting up early for a new job as a private tutor, it caused him to catch pneumonia and die.

  Gideon Defoe

  Jobs, Pneumonia, Up Early

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• I know it's not thematically in tune with my new job and all, but I find it effective. Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day," I say. "But set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. Tao of Pratchett. I live by it.

  Jim Butcher

  Jobs, Men, Fire

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• The time to look for a new job is when you don't need one. The time to switch jobs is before it feels comfortable.

  Seth Godin

  Jobs, Needs, Looks

  Seth Godin (2007). “The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)”, p.56, Penguin

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• Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.

  Dale Carnegie

  Motivational, Careers, Indulge In

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• Every dollar released from taxation that is spared or invested will help create a new job and a new salary.

  John F. Kennedy

  Jobs, Presidential, Salary

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• Small and mid-sized companies in this country historically have been responsible for creating the overwhelming majority of new jobs in the private sector. One of the most-common misconceptions about our private enterprise system is that large companies, such as the Fortune 500, are integral to the process of job creation in this country. The truth is quite the opposite.

  Michael Milken

  Country, Jobs, Opposites

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• At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work.

  Sharon Olds

  Jobs

  Interview with Dwight Garner for Salon Magazine, www.english.illinois.edu. July 1, 1996.

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• I’ve always had this idea that if you’re going to try something, if you’re going to expend that first big block of effort and energy to participate - whether it’s riding the Tour de France or applying for a new job or coaching your daughter’s soccer team - you might as well go ahead and give whatever else it takes to win, I mean, I’m going to be there no matter what, right? Why not go ahead and get the victory?

  Johan Bruyneel

  Soccer, Daughter, Jobs

  Johan Bruyneel, Bill Strickland (2009). “We Might As Well Win: On the Road to Success with the Mastermind Behind Eight Tour de FranceVictories”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Eliminating the Death Tax will continue to restore consumer confidence, spur capital investment, and create new jobs which are critical components of economic growth, particularly within the small business community.

  Howard Coble

  Jobs, Community, Growth

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