Real Jobs Quotes

• It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Best Job, Track

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.57, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.

  Steve Jobs

  Men, Best Job, Design Work

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.57, Prabhat Prakashan

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• It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

  Steve Jobs

  Best Job, People, Innovation

  "Fortune" Magazine, November 9, 1998.

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• Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Work, Life Changing

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work

  Steve Jobs

  Work, Believe, Loving What You Do

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.

  Steve Jobs

  Motivational, Inspirational Life, Hard Work

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.

  Steve Jobs

  Motivational, Business, Work

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• Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Time, Money

  "Fortune" Magazine, November 9, 1998.

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• But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Night, Thinking

  "The Seed of Apple's Innovation". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. October 12, 2004.

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• And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Thinking, Best Job

  "The Seed of Apple's Innovation". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. October 12, 2004.

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• Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

  Steve Jobs

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me ... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Attitude, Yoga

  The Wall Street Journa, Summer 1993.

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• If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Graduation

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• It's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that really matter.

  Scott Belsky

  Best Job, Matter, Saying No

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• I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Success, Creativity

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I'm not there, but I'll always come back.

  Steve Jobs

  Years, Best Job, Apples

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, genius.com. February 1, 1985.

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• The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient.

  Steve Jobs

  Business, Mean, Technology

  "The Seed of Apple's Innovation". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. October 12, 2004.

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• The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament.

  Steve Jobs

  Business, Cutting, Best Job

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.23, Prabhat Prakashan

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• The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient ... But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem. It's ad hoc meetings of six people called by someone who thinks he has figured out the coolest new thing ever and who wants to know what other people think of his idea.

  Steve Jobs

  Mean, Night, Thinking

  "The Seed of Apple's Innovation". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. October 12, 2004.

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• When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Persistence, Simple

  Newsweek Interview on October 14, 2006. "Steve Jobs Legacy: His Stanford University Address & More Great Quotes" by, www.thedailybeast.com. October 07, 2011.

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• As a songwriter, you're never off - for me, anyway. There's a certain mentality of people that decide, "Oh, we're going to try to write songs from this time of the day to this time of the day." Almost treat it like a real job. I can't do that. I've never been able to write songs like that. You never know when something creative is going to hit you, or emotion or whatever. You can take it, and turn it into something that makes somebody feel something. I love that about my job.

  Kenny Chesney

  Song, Jobs, Real

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• No matter what the job description says, your real job is to make the boss look good.

  Lois Wyse

  Jobs, Work, Real

  Lois Wyse (1984). “The Six-Figure Woman and How to Be One”, Fawcett Books

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• I always assumed that at some point I would have to quit making jokes, get a real job and do something meaningful and productive that would actually benefit society. Fortunately this never happened.

  Dave Barry

  Meaningful, Jobs, Real

  "The Phil Factor Interview with Dave Barry! (yes, that Dave Barry)". thephilfactor.com. September 10, 2013.

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• I wouldn't be an actor if it weren't for the English teacher I had my junior year in high school. She's the one who told me I could be an actor. I had never met an actor, I had never seen a real play, only high school plays. I didn't know actors were real, that it was a real job.

  Julianne Moore

  Teacher, Jobs, Real

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Acting becomes my real job, writing becomes my second job, and then when I turn 50, I think I'm going to open up an interior decorating company.

  Ester Dean

  Jobs, Real, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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