Jobs Quotes · Page 165

A professional writer is a joke. You write because you can't do anything else, and then you have another job.

— Jamaica Kincaid

I know being a linesman is a thankless job, especially with guys like me around.

— John McEnroe

I'm not for women, frankly, in any job. I don't want any of them around. Thank God we don't have any in…

— Richard M. Nixon

The problem with having a job is that it gets in the way of getting rich.

— Robert Kiyosaki

Most of my confidence came from being with ladies, because I certainly wasn't getting any acting jobs.

— Vin Diesel

The only way we can win is if we leave before the job is...done.

— George W. Bush

I get some acting jobs. I like it other than the constant slipping in and out of character.

— Andy Kindler

Write in the kitchen, lock yourself up in the bathroom. Write on the bus or the welfare line, on the job or…

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

The unions might be good for the people who are in the unions but it doesn't do a thing for the people…

— Milton Friedman

Eighty percent of American managers cannot answer with any measure of confidence these seemingly simple questions: What is my job? What in…

— W. Edwards Deming

In 'Law & Order,' your main job is to stay out of the way of the plot. On another show you'd receive…

— Jeremy Sisto

If cheap immigrant labor is made unavailable, employers can hire Americans at a higher wage, or replace low-wage immigrant workers with technology…

— Jan C. Ting

I never said that. The fact is we are going to open over hundreds of stores this year and next and increase…

— John Schnatter

The one thing that I have been struck with, after coming here to Congress is, how many people in Washington, D.C. talk…

— Stephen F. Lynch

I'm afraid because some police are way out of control. My true feeling with police is this: If they do their job,…

— Ice T

Major heat wave in India - 122 degrees today. It was so hot people in India were sweating like Americans waiting to…

— Jay Leno

The economic recession in America wasn't caused by bad luck; it was caused by bad Republican policies. But the Republican candidates are…

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

All of my friends went to college and I got a job at Circle Pizza, where I worked for 24 hours. I…

— Sarah Paulson

Google did a great job hacking the Web to create search - and then monetizing search with advertising. And Apple did a…

— Douglas Rushkoff

The [character] that I was able to crawl into the most was Lilo from Lilo & Stitch. This was sort of a…

— Andreas Deja

Speculators may do no harm as bubbles on a steady stream of enterprise. But the position is serious when enterprise becomes a…

— John Maynard Keynes

One of the jobs of art is to inspire discussion, and Brokeback Mountain certainly has done that. It's like a window and…

— Diana Ossana

For many, many years, I was always whipping up things in order to keep myself busy and moving ever forward and saying,…

— Jane Lynch

I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn't get served at a restaurant two blocks from my…

— Monte Irvin

I've always been called "controversial." I think if I were not controversial I wouldn't be doing my job.

— Andrew Weil

Americans used to be able to depend on their jobs to provide a stable retirement.

— Keith Ellison

I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.

— Walt Mossberg

I got the three things I wanted. I did my job, I worked hard in the process, and I cherish the memories,…

— Lance Armstrong

I have a car. I have a steady job. I have a business, and I have to make serious decisions.

— Avril Lavigne

If you're the president you only have two jobs: peace and money.

— Chris Rock

You have to have the courage to wait, to say no, ... And thats difficult. This job is very uncertain, and its frightening.

— Juliette Binoche

I always thought I could do a good job coaching, but the opportunities have not presented themselves.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home…

— Magic Johnson

He [Steve Jobs] had more of the future vision: We can bring this to everyone; we can start a company; we can…

— Steve Wozniak

Your job is to create. Their job is to try to stop you. Don't do both jobs.

— Anna Olson

Animals don't have a voice, so I think it is our job to give them one.

— Nikki Reed

If the right job came along, absolutely with bells on I would work in Sweden.

— MyAnna Buring

I lost my job as a cricket commentator for saying "I don't want to bore you with the details".

— Milton Jones

Librarians! Librarians always know how to find out things. That was their job even before the Internet.

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

I had a lot of jobs. I worked over 50 jobs before I rapped for a living.

— Joseph Bruce