Jobs Quotes - Page 25

• We lead in exporting jobs.

  Dan Quayle

  Funny, Politics, Exporting

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• I sold 'Time Life' books on the telephone. It's probably the only pure skill job I've ever had. When you're on and you're good, you get 'yes' after 'yes'. When you're slightly off, you get rejection after rejection. It was one of the greatest jobs I ever had. It was brutal.

  David Nevins

  Book, Skills, Rejection

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• My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an editorial assistant is the purgatory would-be editors must endure before they can ascend the ladder and begin acquiring books on their own. I spent a year filing paperwork, writing copy, and typing rejection letters.

  Lincoln Child

  New York, Book, Writing

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• The rejection that we all take and the sadness and the aggravation and the loss of jobs and all of the things that we live through in our lives, without a sense of humor, I don't know how people make it.

  Marlo Thomas

  Sadness, Loss, Aggravation

  "Marlo Thomas Remembers 'Growing Up Laughing'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. October 2, 2010.

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• Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.

  Walt Mossberg

  Art, Technology, Men

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• The rare, delicate flavor of a life after retiring in one's sixties, whatever one has "retired" from, the pleasure I experienced beyond my job at Columbia, is a gift of life in the last decades. but it is not easily learned. . . . But sometimes, the only way to live is to get out, or at least seriously to contemplate getting out, doing the impossible,flinging the conventional tea.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Delicate Life, Tea, Way To Live

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• An active investor is someone who actually lives off their investments as opposed to wages from a job.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Wages, Investment, Active

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• It's funny; it's a real balancing act. In TV, everybody's talking about authenticity. In order to make 'Dirty Jobs' authentic, I really can't be overly informed. The minute I am, I become a host It's a very tricky business paying a tribute to work, because TV is very bad at it.

  Mike Rowe

  Real, Dirty, Order

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• The thing that makes 'Dirty Jobs' different is that it's one of the few shows that portrays work in a way that doesn't highlight the drudgery. Instead, it highlights the humor.

  Mike Rowe

  Dirty, Different, Way

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• Good jobs look a lot like kids playing and adults working.

  Mike Rowe

  Kids, Adults, Looks

  "Dirty Job: Catching Up With Mike Rowe". Interview with Liz Kelly, voices.washingtonpost.com. July 16, 2008.

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• You're about to meet a new great dame of crime fiction in Death Was the Other Woman. Linda L. Richards does a stunning job in creating a character with a voice and eye right out of a 1930s L.A. hard-boiled classic: guns and gams, booze and bodies, peepers and perps. Move over, Sam Spade: Kitty Pangborn is on the case.

  Linda Fairstein

  Moving, Character, Eye

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• We are well-placed internationally right now and this government has been very clear in stating that our continued concern and vision for this country is to see that long-term economic growth and prosperity, build on the track record of one million net new jobs. These are things Canadians want -- to have steady hands on the tiller and that's what's been done today.

  Michelle Rempel

  Country, Government, Hands

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• Our Government is committed to supporting Canadian businesses as they grow, innovate and generate high-value jobs - in the West and across the country. The WINN Initiative assists western Canadian businesses in bringing innovative ideas from the test bench to the marketplace.

  Michelle Rempel

  Country, Government, Ideas

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• Our Government’s top priority remains jobs and economic growth. Today’s announcement demonstrates our commitment to ensuring the continued success of western Canadian businesses and entrepreneurs in the apparel and textile sector.

  Michelle Rempel

  Commitment, Government, Entrepreneur

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• Research and technology parks are an important part of the innovation infrastructure in Canada. Our Government's investment will increase the foreign profile of western Canadian companies, create new jobs, and stimulate economic growth.

  Michelle Rempel

  Technology, Government, Innovation

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• In 1989, I started the National Association of Business Women. We incorporated microfinance and different job training for women. We did a survey, with USAID, that found women lacked training, credit and information.

  Joyce Banda

  Training, Different, Credit

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• Design is about creating spaces for people to enjoy and of course, creating moments where you elevate the spirit, but 'design for good' is figuring out a program that not only creates better spaces, but creates jobs, creates new industry and really kind of raises the conversation about how we rebuild.

  Cameron Sinclair

  Creating, Space, People

  CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. July 9, 2008.

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• I see a New York where there is no barrier to the God-given potential of every New Yorker. I see a New York where everyone who wants a good job can find one. I see a New York where the people can believe in a grounded government again.

  Carl Paladino

  New York, Believe, Government

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• Perl is like vise grips. You can do anything with it but it is the wrong tool for every job.

  Bruce Eckel

  Tools, Can Do, Perl

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• Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

  H. L. Mencken

  Horse, Society, Politics

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.622, Vintage

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• To deny a man a job is to say that a man has no right to exist.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Deny

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• If one is a professional soldier, it is part of one's job to die sooner or later.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Soldier, Sooner Or Later, Dies

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• No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Kings, Fall, Long

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• I'm a woman in a man's job and I don't have the luxury of being an ass.

  Joan Clarke

  Men, Luxury, Ass

  "Fictional character: Joan Clarke". "The Imitation Game", www.imdb.com. 2014.

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• Every day, I love what I do and I think it's a gift and privilege to love your job.

  Sarah Burton

  Love You, Thinking, Privilege

  "Interview Sarah Burton: 'The McQueen team is like family'". Interview with Harriet Quick, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2011.

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