Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Taylor

The last time I had a job that wasn't an acting job was '88, and I'm quite proud of that.

Bruce Williams

The laws are OK. They're tough, but we comply. We need people to do their jobs and get us permits when we need them.

The last real job I had was running a jackhammer at 22. And I don't want to do that again.

The linemen were doing their job and I wouldn't be running if it wasn't for them.

The loss of manufacturing jobs after 2000 was just huge, and those jobs haven't come back.

Cindy Adams

The loss of jobs is never a pleasant thing. I know short term this is unpleasant, but I know long term we'll come out on top.

Pat Bowlen

The job Paul has done in his years as commissioner is unprecedented.

Johann Lamont

The job of the Scottish Labour Party is to represent working people and represent Scotland.

The job market was lousy, now it's been upgraded to good.

The job market kind of started turning around the end of last year.

Jared Bernstein

The job market is slowly tightening. We are wringing out the slack. But we're only six months into a process that could take a year and a half.

The job market is going to get worse -- this is a jobless recovery.

Jared Bernstein

The jobless recovery remains with us, and the job machine is stuck in neutral at this point.

The job just isn't right for me at this time in my career,

Russ Rose

The job is what the job entails. If you want to be successful, then you need to put the time into it.

Bill Clinton

The job is too big and too overwhelming for any one group,

Malcolm Forbes

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

James Toney

He's stepping up to challenge me. Anybody that challenges me, has got to get dogged out. That's my job.

James Sinegal

Our attitude has always been that if you hire good people and provide good wages and good jobs and more than that - if you provide careers - that good things will happen to your company. I think we can say that that has been proved by the quality of people that we have and how they have built our organization.

James Sinegal

If somehow a proclamation were made that C.E.O.'s could only make a maximum of $300,000 a year, you would not have any shortage of very qualified men and women seeking the jobs.

James Sinegal

When you hire good people, and you provide good jobs and good wages and a career, good things are going to happen.

James Sinegal

You take an educated gamble. If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you're not doing your job.

James Spader

Acting for me, is a passion, but it's also a job, and I've always approached it as such. I have a certain manual-laborist view of acting. There's no shame in taking a film because you need some money.

James Spader

Working in theater, film or television are three different jobs for an actor, and I accept them as such.

James Spader

The script is the coloring book that you're given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And also when and where to color outside the lines.

James Surowiecki

Being out of a job can erode people's confidence and their sense of possibility; and employers, often unfairly, tend to take long-term unemployment as a signal that something is wrong.

James Surowiecki

Of course, looking tough on inflation is part of any central banker's job description: if investors believe that inflation is going to get out of control, you end up with higher interest rates and capital flight, and a vicious circle quickly ensues.

James Surowiecki

A general principle of good taxation is that similar jobs, and similar kinds of compensation, should be taxed the same way: otherwise, the government is effectively subsidizing some jobs over others.

James Surowiecki

Steve Jobs was rare: a C.E.O. who actually had a huge impact on his company's fortunes. Contrary to corporate mythology, most C.E.O.s could be easily replaced, if not by your average Joe, then by your average executive vice-president. But Jobs genuinely earned the label of superstar.

James Surowiecki

What an economy really wants, after all, is not more investment per se but better investment. It wants capital to flow to companies that will create value - not in the form of a rising stock price but in the form of more goods for less cost, more jobs, and rising wages - by enhancing productivity.

James Surowiecki

You'll sometimes hear from people that they actually do a better job of getting their work done when they have a lot of other obligations - in effect, it removes the possibility of procrastinating.

James Surowiecki

Older people do a better job of managing their impulses, and so they're better able to put off putting off.

James Surowiecki

Procrastination also can be a way of self-handicapping: if you don't do a great job, you can always say to yourself, "If I'd only started sooner, I'd have been able to produce something excellent."