Job & Career Quotes

“Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.”

We shall neither fail nor falter; we shall not weaken or tire...give us the tools and we will finish the job.”

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.”

“Garden: A thing of beauty and a job forever”

“Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.”

“People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing. A leader's job is to help people have vision of their potential.”

“Why compare yourself with others? No one in the entire world can do a better job of being you than you.”

“When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.”

“Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with.”

“A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.”

“Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.”

“Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”

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

“Real friends are those who, when you feel you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel you've done a permanent job”

“Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.”

“Learn to let your intuition—gut instinct—tell you when the food, the relationship, the job isn’t good for you (and conversely, when what you’re doing is just right).”

“I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.”

“Most people never feel secure because they are always worried that they will lose their job, lose the money they already have, lose their spouse, lose their health, and so on. The only true security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way, that you are increasing the caliber of who you are and that you are valuable to your company, your friends, and your family.”

“Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money in that order; it is a process, a never ending one”

“If you want to be comfortable / take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.”

“Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.”

“You can't do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow”

“The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.”

“America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.”

“The problem with the designated driver program, it's not a desirable job, but if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house.”

“It is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.”

“The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery”

“If your're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.”

“The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'. They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but 'we' gets the credit.... This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.”

“Never turn down a job because you think it's too small; you don't know where it can lead”

“A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.”

“There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.”

“If kids come to us [educators / teachers] from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.”

“When we talk about settling the world's problems, we're barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It's a mess. It has always been a mess. We are not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.”

“The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.”

“Ask yourself, "If all jobs paid $2 an hour, what job would I want to do?" When you answer that question, start doing it, even if you have to do it for free at first”

“A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.”

“A REAL job is a job you hate.”

“It is the job that is never started that takes longest to finish.”

The number one sign you have nothing to do at work: The 4th Division of Paperclips has overrun the Pushpin Infantry and General White-Out has called for a new skirmish.

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

If a trainstation is where the train stops, what's a workstation?

We pretend to work because they pretend to pay us.

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.

Many people quit looking for work when they find a job.

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.

Monday is a lame way to spend 1/7 of your life.

If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

A Mission Statement is a dense slab of words that a large organization produces when it needs to establish that its workers are not just sitting around downloading Internet porn.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.

Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

Researchers at Harvard say that taking a power nap for an hour in the afternoon can totally refresh you. They say that by the time you wake up you'll feel so good, you'll be able to start looking for a new job.

Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.

I've met a few people in my time who were enthusiastic about hard work. And it was just my luck that all of them happened to be men I was working for at the time.

A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time.

If a man love the labour of any trade apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

Your Business clothes are naturally attracted to staining liquids. This attraction is strongest just before an important meeting.

Law of the Alibi: If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the very next morning you will have a flat tire.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.

Don't waste time learning the "tricks of the trade." Instead, learn the trade.

You're no good unless you are a good assistant; and if you are, you're too good to be an assistant.

The Tao that is seen Is not the true Tao, until You bring fresh toner.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.

Commuter - one who spends his life In riding to and from his wife; A man who shaves and takes a train, And then rides back to shave again.

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

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office.

The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

For many people a job is more than an income - it's an important part of who we are. So a career transition of any sort is one of the most unsettling experiences you can face in your life.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of this world justifies.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

What is it that you like doing? If you don't like it, get out of it, because you'll be lousy at it.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Retired is being twice tired, I've thought First tired of working, Then tired of not.

Statistics indicate that, as a result of overwork, modern executives are dropping like flies on the nation's golf courses.

I think my idea of retirement might be to one day work a 40-hour week.

If you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.

Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas.

The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.