Job Quotes

It's a hard job to become president.

It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish.

If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job.

I've been very lucky. I wanted to be an actress, but I didn't really have the drive to sell myself. Fortunately I had a terrific agent in New York who kept me going from job to job.

People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is better for me.

Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.

When you walk away from a really wonderful job like that, you start messing with everyone's priorities. It's like you're dissing them.

As far as I'm concerned, there's no job more important on the planet than being a mom.

I just never did buy this idea that you have to live in Los Angeles to be an actor. I didn't see that as a requirement in my job description.

I may be only a fish and chip shop lady, but some of these economists need to get their heads out of the textbooks and get a job in the real world. I would not even let one of them handle my grocery shopping.

Finally, you get the job, and you think you'll be dancing on the ceiling, but I just wanted to go take a nap. It was just like a weight had been lifted off or something.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

I've been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn't want a 9-5 job.

Many people have asked me how I feel about losing my job.

My job is to be fit and I'm really blessed that I get to go and work out and live a really healthy lifestyle.

My Dad hated his job. He sold overcoats, but he wanted to make movies. He had a failed career working with the Ritz Brothers - they were like the Marx Brothers, only a tier below. I always had a picture in my mind of him in a straw hat.

Obstacles to job creation in America are a result of policy, not of motivation.

You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you more miserable and get a good take.

Every country I would go to, even if it was just on a modeling job, I would go to their markets. If I went to Morocco for 'Elle' magazine, I would be in the spice markets during my off time and just come back with a suitcase full of stuff that I really wanted to try.

It's not my job to dream your dreams. It's my job to make your dreams become a reality.

There's been a lot of discussion about NASA culture and changing that. I think our culture has always been one of trying to do a very difficult job and do it well.

I'm always very scared when I start a movie because I never know if I'm going to be able to do a good job or do a very bad job.

Finally, treat domestic energy production as the economic necessity it is and the job creator it can be. Drill, and frack, and lease, and license, unleash in every way the jobs potential in the enormous energy resources we have been denying ourselves.

The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

To push behind the dog sled and run in front of the dog sled. That was always an interesting job.

My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people.

I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job.

Risk means everything from being honest about your faith, to moving, to quitting a job that's paying you a fortune but it's not what's in your heart. Risking things is one of the biggest fears we have.