Jobs Quotes · Page 163

As a programmer, it is your job to put yourself out of business. What you do today can be automated tomorrow.

— Douglas McIlroy

When 20,000 people applaud you as you walk out to do your job, it should be an inspiration.

— Jim Brosnan

I love my job, and I'm a lucky girl. I thoroughly enjoy going to work.

— Lara Pulver

If I can upset people, if I can ruin their day, then I have done my job.

— James Nachtwey

My job driving the ambulance was not very severe, you did what you were supposed to do. That was my main job.

— Frank Buckles

The story is everything, which means it's our job to tell better stories.

— Kevin Spacey

George W. Bush did an incredible job in the presidency, defending us from freedom.

— Rick Perry

I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.

— Kevin Kline

None of the teams that actually probably were offering me a job from the getgo, actually in spring training, are in the…

— Pedro Martinez

None of those jobs were high-profile, but once I was on ET, people then began to associate me with that show. So,…

— John Tesh

I feel lucky that I'm working at all. I don't take any job for granted. I enjoy this. It's all enjoyable for…

— Jon Lovitz

And it's important to remember we are all responsible - or certainly the elected members in Washington of both parties are responsible…

— Jay Carney

Unfair trade deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement eviscerated good-paying manufacturing jobs, putting more than 3 million U.S. workers out…

— James P. Hoffa

It's the nature of hearts to break. It's in their job description. When a heart is doing what it's supposed to be…

— Geneen Roth

No matter if I have a job for one weekend or for the next year, or three years, I'm going to drive…

— Buddy Rice

Yet in this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination.

— Bob Taft

For years - especially in England where I come from - cooking was a subservient job. When I told my Dad I…

— Robert Irvine

I was born in Chicago, but I was raised in a town called Jackson, Tennessee. And a lot of these changes that…

— Gil Scott-Heron

There are the jobs you get that do something for your confidence, like, 'I can do this with my life' kind of…

— Rosemarie DeWitt

I think I fully commit myself to any role to the extent to which I can. In other words there's some roles…

— Billy Bob Thornton

You want to be a writer? A writer is someone who writes every day, so start writing. You don't have a job?…

— Shonda Rhimes

The prison industrial complex, to put it in its crassest term, is a system of industrial mass incarceration. So there's what you…

— Eugene Jarecki

I guess my whole life, as much as I might have wanted a child for the reason that everybody wants one, I…

— Anthony Bourdain

“There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or oceans, rockbound or with…

— Elmore Leonard

Each time a high-wage job is lost, a family is turned upside down. And that affects the communities where they live.

— Philipp Meyer

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young…

— Chely Wright

I think the jobs [at the top] are unbelievably difficult, and there is nothing easier than second-guessing people.

— Madeleine Albright

I wouldn't take a directing job if I didn't think it was enriching life.

— Baz Luhrmann

I've always had service-industry jobs, because those were the easiest to quit or take time off from.

— Wesley Schultz

Two new workers are being added to the population for every one job that is created.

— Bob Beauprez

One of the hardest jobs in ministry is keeping your own relationship with God where it needs to be.

— Anonymous

The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet.

— Imogen Cunningham

Never fear a job, always respect it, and always leave yourself a hind door to escape. May your hind door always be…

— Red Adair

How to get a job: Speak up and show some life about you. Almost anyone who can give you a decent job…

— Liz Carpenter

China is crippling our manufacturing economy and eliminating our jobs by illegally flooding our markets.

— Virginia Foxx

I personally feel very undecided whether it is better for a woman to stay and look after the home or go out…

— Geoffrey Howe

“My guess was that the jobs were being added specifically in the GTA”

— Jane Jacobs

Whether you want to be the best at your job, or at sports, just do your best. Give it everything you have.

— Nick Newell

You lower the [tax] rate, you will motivate and incentivize more people to put more capital at risk to create more jobs.

— Anthony Scaramucci

I try to balance independent films with commercial films, and I've done a pretty good job of it over the years.

— John Travolta