Job Quotes

We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his daughter doesn't know he lost his job, the recent college grad facing up to the painful reality that the only door that's open to her after four years of study and a pile of debt is her parents'. These are the faces of the Obama economy.

The best way to lose a job is just not to care. When you do not care, it shows in everything you do.

I truly believe my job is to make sure people smile.

While it's wonderful that investors have access to all the data now available to them, it has become a full-time job to sift through it and separate out the valuable news from the useless noise.

When someone gets a job, it better be clear what they did to get it.

As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is.

Being a secretary was considered a very good job in those days.

I never dreamed I would have a job in which so many people could touch me and I could touch them.

Sadly the job security of lawyers has been ruined, so they are less willing to defend political defendants.

I don't think it's government's job to find health care for people. I think it's the individual's job to find health care.

I didn't have any great job prospects.

I am not for raising taxes in a recession, especially when it comes to job creators that we need so desperately to start creating jobs again.

No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.

Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.

In my career, there have been roles I haven't taken because someone involved with the project gave me a bad vibe. I don't care how much money is on the table: No job is worth feeling uneasy every day.

Working for a federal agency was like trying to dislodge a prune skin from the roof of the mouth. More enterprise went into the job than could be justified by the results.

Up to that point I never really knew what my character would be expected to do, and prior to accepting the job I had actually turned down the role three times before finally giving in.

It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in the third chair, not the first chair.

Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.

When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'

The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations.

This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.

When I was a little kid I used to play with guys twice my age, so, I was the last one picked, so if I picked I knew that I had to get the ball to the scorer if I wanted to stay on the court, so that was pretty much my job.

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

And for a very special group of people, we've provided their only job. I'm speaking of course of the disabled. They have stated they don't want a hand out just a hand. We are happy to give them one.

I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up unless you're moaning about your job.

It starts this way: The worth of a job is not defined by what it allows you to do when you're not working.

If I stumbled badly in doing the job, I think it would have made life more difficult for women, and that was a great concern of mine and still is.

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

I stay off the Internet, because I'm very sensitive to commentary. There could be 10 comments of 'Fabulous job!' and one 'She's horrible!' and it completely throws me.