Jobs Quotes

• The most important question to ask on the job is not 'What am I getting?' The most important question to ask on the job is 'What am I becoming?'

  Jim Rohn

  Attitude, Important, Becoming

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 20, 2016

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• Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

  Jim Rohn

  Spiritual, Work, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 31, 2017

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• Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Work

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• Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Success, Perseverance

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 11, 2014

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• Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

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  I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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  Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  Quoted in Reader's Digest, Mar. 1934

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• But if it's tolerable mediocrity, and you're like, 'Well, you know it could be worse. At least I'm getting paid.' Then you wind up in a job that is slowly killing your soul and you're allowing that to happen. Comfort can be a very, very dangerous thing.

  Tim Ferriss

  Wind, Soul, Comfort

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• I chose to be in this job and things don't always go your way. But I'll keep going. As a manager you have to be optimistic and think things are going to get better.

  Graeme Souness

  Optimistic, Thinking, Get Better

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• The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!

  Earl Nightingale

  Motivational, Positive, Work

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.164, Lulu.com

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• For many people a job is more than an income - it's an important part of who we are.

  Paul Clitheroe

  Careers, People, Important

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

  Fred Astaire

  Inspirational, Athlete, Kids

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The person who will make the greatest contribution to a company is the mature person-and you cannot have maturity if you have no life or interest outside the job.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Maturity, Mature Person

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.270, Routledge

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• Continue to invest in your personal development. Expand your occupational horizons by constant study . . . look to your present job as a stepping-stone along your career path. Take time to think. The dimensions of most jobs are constrained only by the mind of the uncreative worker. I like what one business man counseled: If at first you do succeed, try something harder!!!

  J. Richard Clarke

  Inspirational, Men, Thinking

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• That's my job. To imagine harder than you can.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Imagine, Harder

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

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• You may have problems to solve but for every problem there is always a solution. It's a positive-and-negative thing: you can't have a problem without there being a solution. There always is. Your job is to find it.

  Brian Sibley

  Negative, May, Problem

  Brian Sibley (2006). “Peter Jackson: A Film-maker's Journey”, HarperCollins UK

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• The last person I ever want working for me is someone who says 'that's not in my job description.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Design, Want, Lasts

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• Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.

  Seth Godin

  Peace, Passion, Easier

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.174, Penguin

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• There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.

  William Bennett

  Motivational, Attitude, Business

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

  Robert Frost

  Motivational, Careers, Differences

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• It's an inside job to learn about forgiving, it's an inside job to hang on to the joy of living.

  Don Henley

  Philosophy, Joy, Forgiving

  Song: Inside Job, Album: Inside Job, 2000

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• It ain't easy to break out of a mold, but if you do your work, people will ultimately see what you're capable of. Too often, people find it easier to make assumptions and stick with what they believe. They put you in a place and it makes their job easier. The good people constantly search for something different.

  Christopher Meloni

  Believe, People, Mold

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• If we get the right people in the right job we've won the game.

  Jack Welch

  Games, People, Ifs

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