Quotes about job
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Nigel Cumberland photo

“Do you enjoy your work? Are you happy to get out of bed each morning and dress for the office? If you answered ‘no’ to either of these questions, you are not alone. In a 2014 Conference Board survey, 52 per cent of Americans claimed to be unhappy at work and in a recent CIPD study 23 per cent of Britons claimed to be looking for a new job. In the same survey only about one-third claim to feel engaged with their work. You can see the effects of this in absence, stress and depression. In fact, you can see it in the rush hour in the tired and sad-looking faces of so many commuters.”

Nigel Cumberland (1967) British author and leadership coach

Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003), Successful Recruitment in a Week (2012) https://books.google.ae/books?idp24GkAsgjGEC&printsecfrontcover&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIGjAA#vonepage&qnigel%20cumberland&ffalse, 100 Things Successful People Do: Little Exercises for Successful Living (2016) https://books.google.ae/books?idnu0lCwAAQBAJ&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIMjAE

Christopher Hitchens photo
W. Edwards Deming photo
Herbert Hoover photo
Giorgio Morandi photo

“My only source of instruction has always been the study of works, whether of the past or contemporary artists, which can offer us an answer to our questions if we formulate these properly... I would never be of much use as a guide or instructor, nor have I ever wanted to be one, even when I have been asked to undertake the job [still, Morandi was art professor - etchings - at the Art Academy of Bologna for many years].”

Giorgio Morandi (1890–1964) Italian painter

the text of this interview was later examined by Morandi and approved in the English translation
interview with Edouard Roditi, in 'Dialogues in Art', 1960; as quoted in Morandi 1894 – 1964, published by Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, ed: M. C. Bandera & R. Miracco - 2008; p. 250
1945 - 1964

Paul Krugman photo
Arnold Schwarzenegger photo

“28% of the greenhouse gasses come from eating meat and from raising cattle, so we can do a much better job. … Luckily we know that you can get your protein source from many different ways, you can get it through vegetables if you are a vegetarian. I have seen many body builders that are vegetarian and they get strong and healthy.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947) actor, businessman and politician of Austrian-American heritage

" Arnold Schwarzenegger: Stop eating meat and save the planet http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/35038053/arnold-schwarzenegger-stop-eating-meat-and-save-the-planet", in BBC Newsbeat website (8 December 2015)
2010s

Carl Lewis photo

“I want to be a millionaire, and I don't ever want a real job.”

Carl Lewis (1961) US track & field athlete

To his University of Houston track coach, Tom Tellez, on his first day of track practice, 1979.
Carl Lewis.com http://www.carllewis.com/index2.shtml (URL accessed on October 21, 2008)

John Green photo

“But mothers lie. It's in the job description.”

Colin Singleton, p. 4
An Abundance of Katherines (2006)

Tom Clancy photo
Kuba Wojewódzki photo

“In defiance of other judges I have faith in your voice. Voice of your common sense. Give this job up. Thank you very much”

Kuba Wojewódzki (1963) Polish journalist

A ja na przekór kolegom wierzę w twój głos. W twój głos rozsądku. Rzuć tę robotę. Dziękujemy ci bardzo.
To Idol contestants

Douglas Coupland photo
Ani DiFranco photo
John McCain photo

“I've got to give you some straight talk: Some of the jobs that have left the state of Michigan are not coming back. They are not. And I am sorry to tell you that.”

John McCain (1936–2018) politician from the United States

, http://boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/01/14/same_state_different_message_for_michigans_economy/
2000s, 2008

Philip Plait photo

“Other job markets may lay claim to the title, but astronomy is actually the world's oldest profession.”

Philip Plait (1964) astronomer, skeptic

Source: Death from the Skies! (2008), p. 2

Garth Nix photo

“I don't… I don't care," he said softly to his reflection. "I have a job to do. It doesn't matter what I have become. It doesn't matter what I look like.”

Garth Nix (1963) Australian fantasy writer

Source: The Keys to the Kingdom series, Lord Sunday (2010), p. 45.

Warren Farrell photo
Ben Bernanke photo
Harriet Harman photo

“This reckless Tory Budget would not be possible without the Lib Dems. The Lib Dems denounced early cuts; now they are backing them. They denounced VAT increases; now they are voting for them. How could they support everything they fought against? How could they let down everyone who voted for them? How could they let the Tories so exploit them? Do they not see that they are just a fig leaf? The Liberal Democrat Chief Secretary is just the Chancellor's fig leaf. The Deputy Prime Minister is just the Prime Minister's fig leaf. The Lib Dems' leaders have sacrificed everything they ever stood for to ride in ministerial cars and to ride on the coat tails of the Tory Government. Twenty-two Liberal Democrat ministerial jobs have been bought at the cost of tens of thousands of other people's. The Liberal Democrats used to stand up for people's jobs, but now they only stand up for their own. Look at the Business Secretary, the right hon. Member for Twickenham. Mr Speaker, the House has noticed his remarkable transformation in the past few weeks from national treasure to Treasury poodle.”

Harriet Harman (1950) British politician

They have no mandate for this Budget; this Budget has no legitimacy. Even if the Lib Dems will not speak up for jobs, we will. Even if they will not fight for fairness, we will, and even if they will not protest against Tory broken promises, we will.
Reaction to the Coalition's budget http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmhansrd/cm100622/debtext/100622-0007.htm#10062245000003, 22 June, 2010. Link to the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m6VJSaFB_E&feature=related

Tarkan photo
Laurie Penny photo
David Berg photo

“True motivation comes from achievement, personal development, job satisfaction, and recognition.”

Frederick Herzberg (1923–2000) American psychologist

Attributed to Frederick Herzberg in: Stuart Crainer, ‎Des Dearlove (2004), Financial Times Handbook of Management. p. 229

Carly Fiorina photo

“There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore. We have to compete for jobs as a nation. Our competitiveness as a nation is not inevitable. It will not just happen.”

Carly Fiorina (1954) American corporate executive and politician

7 January 2004. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/01/08/us_tech_industry_stands_up/.
2000s, 2004

Anbumani Ramadoss photo

“We will teach people to fish, rather than provide them fish. We will bring schemes that will create jobs.”

Anbumani Ramadoss (1968) Indian politician

Announcing his candidature for the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, as quoted in " Anbumani projects himself as CM candidates, seeks vote for change http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/coimbatore/Anbumani-projects-himself-as-CM-candidates-seeks-vote-for-change/articleshow/48047305.cms", The Times of India (13 July 2015)

Muhammad bin Tughluq photo

“During Muslim rule in India, foreign and Indian Muslims were freely bestowed jobs and gifts. Foreign Muslims were most welcome here. They came in large numbers and were well provided for. Muhammad Tughlaq was specially kind to them, as averred by Ibn Battutah. He writes that "the countries contiguous to India like Yemen, Khurasan and Fars are filled with anecdotes about… his generosity to the foreigners in so far as he prefers them to the Indians, honours them, confers on them great favours and makes them rich presents and appoints them to high offices and awards them great benefits". He calls them aziz or dear ones and has instructed his courtiers not to address them as foreigners. 'The sultan ordered for me," writes Ibn Battutah, "a sum of six thousand tankahs, and ordered a sum of ten thousand for Ibn Qazi Misr. Similarly, he ordered sums to be given to all foreigners (a'izza) who were to stay at Delhi, but nothing was given to the metropolitans."… There are scores of instances of Muhammad Tughlaq's generosity to foreigners…. The point to note here is that under Sultan Muhammad so much wealth was awarded to so many deserving and undeserving foreign Muslims that at the close of his reign the Delhi treasury had become bankrupt. There was also the loss of popularity because "the people of India hate the foreigners (Persians, Turks, Khurasanis) because of the favour the sultan shows them."”

Muhammad bin Tughluq (1290–1351) Turkic Sultan of Delhi

Ibn Battutah, trs. Mahdi Husain, p. 105-140. quoted from Lal, K. S. (1999). Theory and practice of Muslim state in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 5

Mitt Romney photo

“I actually think it will be interesting to listen to the President tonight. What I'd like him to do is report on his promises but there are forgotten promises and forgotten people. Over the last four years, the President has said that he was going to create jobs for the American people and that hasn't happened. He said he would cut the deficit in half and that hasn't happened. He said that incomes would rise and instead incomes have gone down. And I think this is a time not for him not to start restating new promises but to report on the promises he made. I think he wants a promises reset. We want a report on the promises he made. And that means let's hear some numbers. Let's hear 16. Sixteen trillion dollars of debt. This is very different than the promise he made. Let's hear the number 47. 47 million people in this country on food stamps. When he took office, 33 million people were on food stamps. Let's understand why it was he's been unsuccessful in helping alleviate poverty in this country. Why so many people have fallen from the middle class into poverty under this president. Let's have him explain to the American people the 50% number. Why 50% of college graduates can't find work or work that is consistent with their college degree. The President needs to report tonight on his promises rather than try and reset a whole series of new promises that he also won't be able to keep.”

Mitt Romney (1947) American businessman and politician

2012-09-06
http://mittromneycentral.com/2012/09/06/romney-on-obamas-speech-tonight-americans-want-a-report-on-presidents-promises/
Romney on Obama’s Speech Tonight: Americans Want A Report On President’s Promises
Mitt Romney Central
2012

Heidi Klum photo
Gary Johnson photo

“My next door neighbor's two dogs have created more shovel-ready jobs than this current administration.”

Gary Johnson (1953) American politician, businessman, and 29th Governor of New Mexico

Quip at Fox/Google debate
YouTube
2012-09-22
http://youtu.be/_hYAWHpfLpc
2012-02-24
Miscellaneous

Nigel Lawson photo
Warren Farrell photo
Ben Carson photo

“Always give your best and try to figure out how to do an even better job.”

Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon

Source: Think Big (1996), p. 90

Jeremy Clarkson photo

“The job of dedicated missile boats is to pootle about, like mice in carpet slippers, waiting for an order to destroy an entire continent.”

Jeremy Clarkson (1960) English broadcaster, journalist and writer

I Know You Got Soul (2004)

Newt Gingrich photo

“You want to be a country that creates food stamps? In which case, frankly, Obama is an enormous success — the most successful food stamp president in American history. Or do you want to be a country that creates jobs?”

Newt Gingrich (1943) Professor, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

2011-05-13 speech to Georgia Republican convention, quoted in * Meet the Press
NBC
Television
2011-05-15
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032608/vp/43038280
2011-05-19
2010s

Boris Johnson photo

“Look the point is … er, what is the point? It is a tough job but somebody has got to do it.”

Boris Johnson (1964) British politician, historian and journalist

Toby Helm, "Boris Johnson named shadow arts minister", Daily Telegraph, 7 May 2004, p. 12.
On being appointed Shadow Arts Minister.
2000s, 2004

Newton Lee photo
Richard Holbrooke photo
Sharron Angle photo

“Jon Ralston: So you're saying if people lose their jobs through no fault of their own, as many have during this recession, Sharron Angle's solution is to cut their unemployment benefits so low so they're somehow gonna go out and find jobs that don't exist? How does that make any sense?
Sharron Angle: There are jobs that do exist. That's what we're saying, is that there are jobs. But those are entry-level jobs.”

Sharron Angle (1949) Former member of the Nevada Assembly from 1999 to 2007

Face to Face
2010-06-29
Sharron Angle's Unemployment Solution: There Are Lots Of Jobs Available
2010-06-30
The Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/30/sharron-angles-unemployme_n_631350.html

Bernard Cornwell photo
Nicholas Lore photo
Adolf Eichmann photo

“I was never an anti-Semite. … My sensitive nature revolted at the sight of corpses and blood… I personally had nothing to do with this. My job was to observe and report on it.”

Adolf Eichmann (1906–1962) German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer

As quoted in Consensus and Controversy: Defending Pope Pius XII (2002) by Sister Margherita Marchione, p. 71.

Cathy Newman photo

“The only reason I can have a high-pressure job and a home and see my kids is because my husband works from home. He does the cooking and shopping. […] You can't have it all. Neither men nor women.”

Cathy Newman (1974) journalist

Cited in " Cathy Newman: 'The internet is being written by men with an agenda' https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/mar/19/cathy-newman-the-internet-is-being-written-by-men-with-an-agenda", 25 March 2018.

Temple Grandin photo
H.L. Mencken photo
Harriet Harman photo

“For many young people, social mobility now means a bus down to the job centre.”

Harriet Harman (1950) British politician

On Nick Clegg's social mobility pledges, during a debate in the House of Commons http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/apr/05/nick-clegg-child-poverty-social-mobility, 5 April 2011.

Herbert Hoover photo

“This is not a showman’s job. I will not step out of character.”

Herbert Hoover (1874–1964) 31st President of the United States of America

Hoover Off the Record (1934)

Chris Stedman photo
Daniel Goleman photo
Yvette Cooper photo

“I decided I don't want to go for the top job now. I could be working for another 25 years and I'd like to be reading bedtime stories to my children for another two or three years.”

Yvette Cooper (1969) British politician

On why she did not nominate herself to become Leader of the Labour Party, during BBC's Today Programme http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00v6by4/Profile_Yvette_Cooper_Shadow_Foreign_Secretary, May, 2010.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge photo

“The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher

9 May 1830
Table Talk (1821–1834)

John Nance Garner photo

“Worst damnfool mistake I ever made was letting myself be elected Vice President of the United States. Should have stuck with my old chores as Speaker of the House. I gave up the second most important job in the Government for one that didn't amount to a hill of beans. I spent eight long years as Mr. Roosevelt's spare tire. I might still be Speaker if I didn't let them elect me Vice-President.”

John Nance Garner (1868–1967) American politician

Comment shortly after leaving office, on leaving his post as speaker of the United States House of Representative to become the Vice President, quoted by Frank X. Tolbert, "What is Cactus Jack Up to Now," Saturday Evening Post (November 2, 1963) and recounted in Alden Whitman's obituary of Garner in the New York Times (November 8, 1967).

“The one job that machines cannot do is be a cruel plutocrat. That’s why humans are still needed.”

James Nicoll (1961) Canadian fiction reviewer

Review of Luna: New Moon by Ian McDonald http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/i-dont-care-what-happens-to-these-characters, 2015
2010s

George Will photo

“Capital is mobile. It goes where it is welcomed and stays where it is well-treated, so states compete to create tax and regulatory environments conducive to job creation. Liberals call this a "race to the bottom."”

George Will (1941) American newspaper columnist, journalist, and author

Conservatives call it a race to rationality.
Column, February 18, 2014, "Breaking the grip of the unions" http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-f-will-breaking-the-grip-of-the-unions/2014/02/18/39beb794-98d4-11e3-b88d-f36c07223d88_story.html at washingtonpost.com.
2010s

Alfred P. Sloan photo
Colin Wilson photo
Goran Višnjić photo
David Graeber photo
Jakaya Kikwete photo

“I’m not sure. I’m not sure if you talk to the opposition, they would consider that to be an insult. They think they are doing a tremendous job.”

Jakaya Kikwete (1950) Tanzanian politician and president

Regarding his Party's dominance as a one-party state.
Interviews, Interview with Financial Times, 2007-10-04 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d8a07e28-72a3-11dc-b7ff-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check1/

Eddie August Schneider photo

“I was broke, hungry, jobless … yet despite the fact that all three of us are old-time aviators who did our part for the development of the industry, we were left out in the cold in the Administration’s program of job making. Can you blame us for accepting the lucrative Spanish offer?”

Eddie August Schneider (1911–1940) American aviator

[3 U.S. Airmen Here to Explain Aid to Loyalists. Acosta, Berry, Schneider Fly to Capital With Their Attorney, Washington Post, http://familypedia.wikia.com/wiki/File:Schneider_WashingtonPost_1937.jpg, January 20, 1937, 5]
Congressional testimony about his participation in the Yankee Squadron of the Spanish Civil War

Neil deGrasse Tyson photo
Raymond Chandler photo
Peter Weiss photo
David Lange photo

“He viewed humour as a relaxing introduction to many situations. "It is, of course, completely inappropriate in some… but in the end, you know, if you were serious in this job you'd go mad."”

David Lange (1942–2005) New Zealand politician and 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand

Source: Gliding on the Lino - The Wit of David Lange, compiled by David Barber, 1987.

Mitt Romney photo
Nancy Cartwright photo

“The best acting job in the world.”

Nancy Cartwright (1957) American actress

Quoted in That's my boy, Brockes, Emma, 2009-02-05, 2004-08-02, The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2004/aug/02/broadcasting.edinburgh04,
Referring to her role as Bart Simpson.

Derren Brown photo
Phil Brown (footballer) photo

“It was a fantastic result and credit has to go to the players. The application they have shown since I got the job has been first class. They've just asked for four or five days off this week, but I've said I want them back in on Tuesday.”

Phil Brown (footballer) (1959) English association football player and manager

30-Apr-2007, Hull City OWS
When the players ask for a holiday, that shows their hard-working attitude!

Neal Boortz photo
W. Somerset Maugham photo
Godfrey Bloom photo

“Look, my job is to upset The Guardian and the BBC. I love it, I love it.”

Godfrey Bloom (1949) UK EU parliament member

Evening Standard, Wednesday 7 August 2013, p. 2

Letty Cottin Pogrebin photo
Willie Nelson photo
Tod A photo
Richard Hooker photo

“There is a wheel within a wheel; a secret sacred wheel of Providence (most visible in marriages), guided by His hand that allows not the race to the swift nor bread to the wise, nor good wives to good men: and He that can bring good out of evil (for mortals are blind to this reason) only knows why this blessing was denied to patient Job, to meek Moses, and to our as meek and patient Mr Hooker.”

Richard Hooker (1554–1600) English bishop and Anglican Divine

Izaak Walton, in Philip B. Secor, Richard Hooker: Prophet of Anglicanism and Son of Exeter http://www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/Clergy/Hooker.html. Walton (August 9, 1593 - December 15, 1683) was the chief biographer of Hooker.
About

Nigel Cumberland photo

“Successful people are the ones who say ‘yes’ when others say ‘no’. What would you say if you were offered a job promotion overseas? Would you go for it? What would you say if your partner suggested a new holiday destination, say, Greenland. Would you give it a try?”

Nigel Cumberland (1967) British author and leadership coach

Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003), Successful Recruitment in a Week (2012) https://books.google.ae/books?idp24GkAsgjGEC&printsecfrontcover&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIGjAA#vonepage&qnigel%20cumberland&ffalse, 100 Things Successful People Do: Little Exercises for Successful Living (2016) https://books.google.ae/books?idnu0lCwAAQBAJ&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIMjAE

Donald J. Trump photo
Anton Chekhov photo

“Is it our job to judge? The gendarme, policemen and bureaucrats have been especially prepared by fate for that job. Our job is to write, and only to write.”

Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian dramatist, author and physician

Letter to L.A. Avilova (April 27, 1899)
Letters

Joe Higgins photo

“Higgins: Is [assassination] only justified if the target is a reactionary, anti-democratic, anti-human rights obscurantist like bin Laden?
Enda Kenny: I know you are a good Christian man who has your job to do in here from a political point of view. Many of his victims in the twin towers in New York were of Irish descent or directly Irish.”

Joe Higgins (1949) Irish socialist politician

Enda Kenny apologising to Higgins after slandering him. Irish Independent http://www.independent.ie/national-news/ok-you-are-not-a-bin-laden-fan-taoiseach-tells-joe-higgins-2637835.html

Mitt Romney photo
Billie Piper photo
Conor McGregor photo

“I love proving people wrong and proving my supporters right. This is all fun and games to me. I love it. I love my job. I whoop people for truckloads of cash. How could I hate this life? I love it so much. I’m grateful every single day.”

Conor McGregor (1988) Irish mixed martial artist and boxer

UFC 178 post-event press conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAAC34JzxS0 (September 2014), Ultimate Fighting Championship, Zuffa, LLC
2010s, 2014

John F. Kennedy photo
Mona Sahlin photo

“If two equally qualified persons apply for a job at a workplace with few immigrants, the one called Mohammed should get the job.”

Mona Sahlin (1957) Swedish politician

Mona Sahlin in an interview with the Swedish newspaper Göteborgs-Posten, October 22, 2000.

Tony Benn photo
Jordan Peterson photo

“Partly what you need to do is decide what your highest value is. It's the star. What are you aiming for? You can decide. But there are some criteria. It should be good for you in a way that facilitates your moving forward. Maybe it should be good for you in a way that's also good for your family, as well as for the larger community. It should cover the domain of life. There's constraints on what you should regard as a value, but within those constraints you have the choice. You have choice. The thing is that people will carry a heavy load if they get to pick the load. And they think, 'well, I won't carry any load.' Ok, fine, but then you'll be like the slead dog that has nothing to pull. You'll get bored. People are pack animals. They need to pull against a wait. And that's not true for everyone. It's not true for conscientious people. For the typical person, they'll eat themselves up unless they have a load. This is why there's such an opiate epidemic among so many dispossessed white, middle aged, unemployed men in the U. S. They lose their job, and then they're done. They despise themselves. They develop chronic pain syndromes and depression. And the chronic pain is treated with opiates. That's what we're doing. And you should watch when you talk to young men about responsibility. They're so thrilled about it. It just blows me away. Really?! That's what the counter-culture is? Grow up and do something useful. Really? I can do that? Oh, I'm so excited by that idea. No one ever mentioned that before. Rights, rights, rights, rights. Jesus. It's appalling. People have had enough of that. And they better have, because it's a non-productive mode of being. Responsibility, man. That's where the meaning in life is.”

Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology

Concepts

Kim Stanley Robinson photo
Rand Paul photo
Muharrem İnce photo
Koenraad Elst photo
Zell Miller photo
Frank Klepacki photo