First job Quotes

My first job ever was, I got hired by Oprah Winfrey.

— Karamo Brown

My first job in journalism was covering politics in New Jersey.

— Steve Kornacki

'The Office' was such a great first job.

— Zach Woods

My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's.

— Shelley Berman

My first job was at Baskin-Robbins. I made store manager at 16.

— Eric McCormack

My first job was at a Burger King.

— Chamath Palihapitiya

My first job in television was on 'My So-Called Life.'

— Jason Katims

My first job as premier will be to go back to basics.

— Lara Giddings

The first job I ever had was right here in San Francisco with Southern Pacific.

— Steven Burd

My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.

— Willie Stargell

My first job as commander in chief is to keep the American people safe, and that's what we've done over the last…

— Barack Obama

The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job - that was…

— Zuleikha Robinson

Treat everyone like it's still your first job and that we're all just happy to be here.

— Tyler Hoechlin

My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.

— Sara Zarr

The first job of a leader is to define a vision for the organization...the capacity to translate vision into reality.

— Warren G. Bennis

I grew up in Hempstead, NY, and my very first job was working for an environmental organization.

— Karine Jean-Pierre

David Hayman gave me my Equity card and my first job out of drama school - the first person I really looked…

— Douglas Henshall

My first job was scooping ice cream at Friendly's in Albany, New York. I hated the work, most of my colleagues, and…

— Gregory Maguire

I went to School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and we had a bunch of singing classes. My first job in New…

— Anna Camp

My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much…

— Douglas Preston

Jurgen and myself have known each other since 1997. We've always had a good relationship. He called me before his first job…

— Ralf Rangnick

My first job in Hollywood was as a PA in the writers room of 'Dawson's Creek,' and from that early experience on,…

— Ruben Fleischer

You would be amazed at the pompadour that I was rocking in the first job I had on the soap opera called…

— Michael Weatherly

I did come to realize that getting your first job is hard, but it's not nearly as hard as getting your seventh…

— Anna Faris

My very first professional job was with a theatre company in 1965 and the first job they gave me was literally shovelling…

— Martin Shaw

The weirdest I've felt was my first job ever. It was an editorial in London. They made me take my underwear off…

— River Viiperi

When we go to see comedians or funny movies, they don't address the wall behind them; they face us. This is why…

— Doug TenNapel

At a very young age, my beloved mother passed away from leukemia, forcing my father to become a single dad. Rather than…

— Kimberly Guilfoyle

'Clybourne Park' was my first job after the birth of my son, who was 11 weeks old when we started rehearsals. And…

— Annie Parisse

I knew early on that I wanted to be a reporter, but I didn't know I was a political journalist until my…

— Gwen Ifill

There's a real careful line you have to walk there because your first job [therapist] is to create safety for the client…

— Kelly Carlin-McCall

My first job, 9 years old, part-time, was selling Christmas cards door-to-door. Ten years old, my brother and I had paper routes.…

— John Paul DeJoria

“Bisceglia Pharmacy is a tiny, dusty relic tucked into a dying strip mall on the other side of the Kansas-Missouri state line.…

— Laurelin Paige

What is the single most important thing for a company? Is it the building? Is it the stock? Is it the turnover?…

— Ricky Gervais

“But he had to take this call. Deepak Parekh was an old friend. He was more than an old friend. He was…

— Tamal Bandopadhyaya

“I have learned to quit speeding through life, always trying to do too many things too quickly, without taking the time to…

— Olive Ann Burns

“I want you to tell me about the Survivor," he finally said. "He was lord of the mists," Demoux said immediately. "Not…

— Brandon Sanderson

“When I told my parents that I was going to sea, they didn’t ask any questions and seemed to take it all…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One

“Redemption is not just about being saved *from* the consequences of sin, it is also about being saved *to* something- to resume…

— Nancy Pearcey

“If you could have a gigantic billboard anywhere with anything on it, what would it say and why? A single bottom line…

— Timothy Ferriss