Best Jobs Quotes

#1. Like ageism and sexism, lookism was everywhere, resulting in the good-looking getting the best jobs, winning all the plaudits, being let off the most parking tickets by soft-hearted traffic wardens; being generally favoured.

Alexander McCall Smith

#2. I was shocked by the reaction I got for Bleak House. It was very intensive but one of the best jobs of my life. It was a chance to play a character that grows and develops and I was very enmeshed in it. But I didn't realise how stylish it was and how much people would love it.

Anna Maxwell Martin

#3. I never made any money, but I had the best jobs in the world.

Letitia Baldrige

#4. You just try to get the best jobs that you can get. Sometimes I produce my own movies, so that's your own sort of vision. That helps things. I don't know what it is. Probably just circumstance. I've definitely been aware of the fact that I want to do different things.

John Cusack

#5. If we want to secure the best jobs in the future, we must make America the best place in the world to do business.

Jim DeMint

#6. I think one of the best jobs in the universe must be being the editor of 'The New Yorker', but there are a number of magazines that I'd be excited to be the editor of. They would be 'Wired', 'The New Yorker' and probably, 'Vogue'.

Michael Wolf

#7. I am happy with what I do. I'd love to be the manager of the Atlanta Braves, but they hired somebody this week. So I'll just have to be inordinately happy with one of the best jobs on the planet.

Robert Gibbs

#8. Trump claims he'd be the "best jobs president that God ever created." But isn't his claim to fame firing people?

Michael R. Burch

#9. Well, I have one of the best jobs in the world.

Marissa Mayer

#10. 'Downton' is one of the best jobs in the world, and I'm looking forward to the next series for Maggie Smith's wicked sense of humour.

Samantha Bond

#11. It's a form of bullying, in my opinion, to make sure that your kid gets the best grades, the best jobs and all that sort of stuff. I just want my child to be happy. I want him to do his best and trust God in the rest, but I'm not going to bully him.

Nick Vujicic

#12. The worst men have the best jobs the best men have the worst jobs or are unemployed or locked in madhouses.

Charles Bukowski

#13. The allocation of the best jobs, just like that of the best apartments, tends to piggyback social networks.

Cesar Hidalgo

#14. Making films is my hobby. It relaxes me; it is my life, and it's one of the best jobs in the world. I go to work and solve problems, fight robots, kill aliens, and kiss beautiful women. I'm a very lucky man.

Sam Worthington

#15. The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest rivers aren't spanned; Don't worry and fret, faint-hearted, The chances have just begun For the best jobs haven't been started, The best work hasn't been done.

Berton Braley

#16. The service in L.A. is the best. You don't get sarcastic, surly, fed-up waiters and waitresses like you do in England. They're good at their job and they're there for the customer. The only depressing thing is a lot of them have written more screenplays than me.

Ricky Gervais

#17. You never know until you give something your best and keep working at it. Follow your dreams no matter what

Santonu Kumar Dhar

#18. I just want to do the best possible job with everything that I do. But I'm far more concerned with being a good father as opposed to being a good actor because that's what's really going to matter.

Mark Wahlberg

#19. We made the iPod for ourselves, and when you're doing something for yourself, or your best friend or family, you're not going to cheese out. If you don't love something, you're not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much.

Walter Isaacson

#20. A decorator, no matter how talented, can't always get the desired results because sometimes there is resistance or maybe a lack of understanding on the part of the client. I think it is the decorator's job to work as a guide, to bring out the best qualities and the best attitudes.

Albert Hadley

#21. The smartest people can write the worst emails and those of less intellect can write the best.

Paul Babicki

#22. Your job is always the same if it's a juggernaut or if it's just one of these little jewels of a film that's gonna wind up at the Laemmle or something, so your job doesn't change whatsoever ... give it your best shot.

Morgan Freeman

#23. Keep your head down. Mind your business and do the best job you can.

Bill Raftery

#24. Whether you want to be the best at your job, or at sports, just do your best. Give it everything you have.

Nick Newell

#25. Old fashioned as it may seem to some, it is my duty to serve my country. (And) I didn't seek this job but I want to do it, and I will do my very best.

George H. W. Bush

#26. I'm very organised with my money. It can sometimes feel like a full time job to keep on top of it but my best tip is to stay organised and always save first and then spend what you have left not spend and then save what's left.

Amy Childs

#27. This job of playing God is a little too big for me. Nevertheless, someone has to do it, so I'll try my best to fake it.

Larry Wall

#28. Each environment is different, each job is different, and each realm of creativity that they give you is different. You try to do the best you can and put as much time into it as you can, but different jobs have different circumstances come about.

Michael Rapaport

#29. The best way to accomplish serious design ... is to be totally and completely unqualified for the job.

Paula Scher

#30. And I say to you that if you bring curiosity to your work it will cease to be merely a job and become a door through which you enter the best that life has to give you.

Robertson Davies

#31. You'll never prove you're too good for a job by not doing your best.

Ethel Merman

#32. Earlier in my career, I needed to be the writer, casting director, set designer, leading man, and producer. I've been eliminating a lot of those jobs. I'm an executive producer right now. I still get to pick the best screenplays.

Danny Meyer

#33. I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying enough to keep families out of poverty.

Barbara Mikulski

#34. I'm pretty confident in who I am. I know that for parents everywhere, it's my job to be a role model, and I'm going to do the best I possibly can.

Selena

#35. The best social reform program in the world is a job.

Ronald Reagan

#36. Living your best life is to find out what your calling is. Your real job on Earth is to find out what you were meant to be doing & to find a way to do that thing.

Oprah Winfrey

#37. Whether the task is writing, design, or hanging a picture straight, it is obvious that we do our best work when healthy, rested, refreshed, alert, and eager to do the job for its own sake.

Jeffrey Zeldman

#38. My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.

William Faulkner

#39. The issue for me is American competitiveness, and how do we best create a climate here that allows international capital to come to these shores to create jobs.

Vito Fossella

#40. Steve Jobs: The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Walter Isaacson

#41. You do your best work if you do a job that makes you happy.

Bob Ross

#42. The thing that I have done throughout my life is to do the best job that I can and to be me.

Mae Jemison

#43. It could be the make-or-break of getting that job. Obviously, your appearance matters. It helps with your self-esteem. You definitely, definitely want to put your best foot forward.

Keith Anderson

#44. There are only people doing their imperfect best at doing their imperfect jobs

Stephen Nachmanovitch

#45. I have a limited amount of time to build a career out of football and be the best that I can be at this job. When this job is over, I have the rest of my life to do what I want with my time.

J. J. Watt

#46. I'm an Air Force officer first, a pilot second and then Nicole. The female part is last ... My job is to be the best right wingman that I can be.

Nicole Malachowski

#47. The best way to get acid out of your body is to wash it out. The best way to wash it out is to provide plenty of water to do the job

Robert O. Young

#48. In '86 or '87, the welfare lists were at the lowest level in 17 years. Why? Because the economy was the best it was in 17 years. There were jobs.

Mario Cuomo

#49. Listen, I think what's best for the economy and to create jobs is to extend all of the current tax rates - for all Americans. It - it begins to reduce the uncertainty. And for small businesspeople, they can look up and begin to plan.

John Boehner

#50. Be worried if no one is criticizing you. Your job in life is to ignore the 33% who will never like you and do your best to convince the 33% who don't care either way to join the 33% who love you

Robert Kiyosaki

#51. Whatever grade I get, even though I do try my best, I'll be happy with. I feel so lucky to have done all the jobs I've done to this point. So, if I continue to work it will be amazing. But I'm going to see how it goes.

Yasmin Paige

#52. But we did the best we could and in the end some of us had to get day jobs and start fresh.

Steve Brown

#53. We need to make sure and that we can continue to move forward in creating jobs and getting the economy turned around. The best way to do that is to make sure that we can get Congress to adopt the American Jobs Act.

Mitt Romney

#54. Historically, the best way to convert liberals is to have them move out of their parents' home, get a job, and start paying taxes.

Ann Coulter

#55. I am very grateful to my colleagues for their support. There is a big job before us: to unite our party and the country, to negotiate the best possible deal as we leave the EU, and to make Britain work for everyone.

Theresa May

#56. I never had working papers. I never had a job. I sold crack until I got in the music, so this is the best thing that happened to me and I do it excessively.

Curtis Jackson

#57. My mom and dad worked very hard to give me the best chance in - not just in golf but in life. You know, I was an only child, you know, my dad worked three jobs at one stage. My mom worked night shifts in a factory.

Rory McIlroy

#58. If you don't feel you're the best, then you shouldn't be doing your job. No one else cares if you don't care about yourself.

Donovan McNabb

#59. Getting every employee's mind into the game is a huge part of what a CEO job is all about. Taking everyone's best ideas and transferring them to others is the secret. There's nothing more important.

Jack Welch

#60. Look, I really appreciate your helping with the med-droids, and I'm sure the best mechanic in the city has a million jobs to prioritize, but at the risk of sounding like a spoiled prince, could I ask that you move Nainsi to the top of your list?

Marissa Meyer

#61. It's with a heavy heart that I have decided that I can't relocate. I have two babies under 4. being a mother and wife comes first and I just can not uproot my children and separate the family by moving away. I will miss this job desperately and wish everyone the absolute best.

Alyssa Milano

#62. The best way to create a winning team is to train them, give them everything they need to get the job done and second, make sure they know what the job is and what the job will be. So you connect strategy to resources.

Colin Powell

#63. Are we a nation that educates the world's best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

Barack Obama

#64. There is no kind of ultimate goal to do something twice as good as anyone else can. It's just to do the job as best you can. If it turns out good, fine. If it doesn't, that's the way it goes.

Chuck Yeager

#65. The TV weatherman has always been one of the best, most secure jobs. They change anchors, they change the set, producers come and go. But the weather person hangs on forever!

Willard Scott

#66. There were some jobs I wanted that weren't necessarily right for me at the time. The ones I thought I'd never get, I got. As long as I am doing the best work I can possibly do at any given time, I can't do any better than that.

Constance Marie

#67. The best way to help the poor is to promote economic growth and job creation

Myron Magnet

#68. The things you don't have control over, you don't worry about. I have control over my attitude, my perception, how I do things, and you do the very best job you can. Other people have control over other things and you let them do their jobs.

Mike Sherman

#69. When exactly were we brainwashed into believing that the best way to earn a living is to have a job?

Seth Godin

#70. The person who gets hired is not necessarily the one who can do that job best; but, the one who knows the most about how to get hired.

Richard Nelson Bolles

#71. I had three jobs in college. The best day of my life was when I paid off my student loans, on my own.

Jessica Seinfeld

#72. Leadership does not mean getting people to do their job. It means getting people to do their best.

Harvey MacKay

#73. The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for an artist to work in.

William Faulkner

#74. The best part of my job is that it really isn't a job at all, it's a labour of love. Every night is different, the people that you work with are all tremendous individuals.

Joe Bowen

#75. In the theater we're like blue-collar workers: It's a physical job, you don't make a lot of money, and you're on the road all the time. It's worth it in that it's the best job in the world, but you have to negotiate living in cities that don't always accommodate you.

Randy Harrison

#76. Yes, Jobs could be overbearing. But as Guy Kawasaki (who worked for Steve Jobs twice) put it: If you ask an employee of Apple why they put up with the challenges of working there, they will tell you: because Apple enables you to do the best work of your career.

Anonymous

#77. Everybody has a calling. And your real job in life is to figure out as soon as possible what that is, who you were meant to be, and to begin to honor that in the best way possible for yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

#78. Random acts of kindness and the desire to do the best job possible lead to trust.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#79. Your parents ask you to follow the standard path: School, job, security. Is this really the best way? I don't think so - be your own boss!

Kim Dotcom

#80. Goldman Sachs believes that economically empowering women globally is one of the best investments to grow economies, create jobs, and build more prosperous societies.

Dina Powell

#81. Your job in life is to look after yourself and to find ways to get what you need - emotionally and otherwise - so that you live your best possible life, without being mired in anger and hurt over the past.

Amy Dickinson

#82. Suge is the boss of Death Row, the don, you understand? But im the underboss, the capo. That's my job to what's best for Death Row

Tupac Shakur

#83. 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

#84. Montana's ranchers raise the best cattle in the world. If Taco Bell needs to beef up, they can give their customers the highest quality meat around by using Montana beef, and in the process, supporting agriculture jobs in Montana.

Jon Tester

#85. I ask the clergy why don't I see myself represented in leadership? And I'm told, and this happens quite a bit, "We don't think about race when we hire. We just hire the best person for the job."

Michael Emerson

#86. I take very seriously this notion that my highest job is to live a better life, all the time and to the best of my ability. I need to monitor my own progress - take my own inventory - and clean my own closet. I am trying to do all that.

Marianne Williamson

#87. I've got the best job in the world, and i meet some of the most amazing human beings on the planet. I'm one lucky guy.

Ty Pennington

#88. My job is to try to figure out how to fix things, and I'm going to fix things as best as I can. I'm going to get a team together to fix things. And I can't sit around and worrying what the heck the chairman of the Republican Party thinks about what I'm doing.

John Kasich

#89. I hate being pigeon-holed into anything. To me, the best thing is when the next job comes and is completely different to the one that I just had.

Miranda Otto

#90. I think a lot of people will be liberated from a lot of oppressive manufacturing jobs, or a lot of service jobs, because they'll be done by computers. There'll be the world's best education available online and free.

Tyler Cowen

#91. If you don't have children and you don't have a job, you have time for friendship ... People who have jobs are not the best friends to have. It's better to be friends with people who are unemployed ...

Fran Lebowitz

#92. Honestly, you can't manage expectations. It has nothing to do with you. It has everything to do with everyone else. And everyone else is going to have expectations, and all you can do is do your job and do your best and be true to yourself.

Erin Davie

#93. A leader's job is not just to get the best out of their people-a leader's job is to make more leaders.

Simon Sinek

#94. People come into work and actually go home to their families. They want to go there and explore and have a good time, but they also want to go home, which is the best kind of working environment. You go in and do your job, and then you go home and enjoy your life.

Khandi Alexander

#95. Most editors are just worried about their jobs. They're overwhelmed. They're underpaid. They do the best they can.

Peter Landesman

#96. When we consider a project, we really study it-not just the surface idea, but everything about it. And when we go into that new project, we believe in it all the way. We have confidence in our ability to do it right. And we work hard to do the best possible job.

Walt Disney

#97. I take my job very seriously and I work the best that I can on every drum that I hit. I want all the drums and cymbals to sound the best. I strive for perfection and I won't take anything less.

Chris Johnson

#98. The best thing about my job is that I work with the best creative people in the business in their fields.

Geoff Johns

#99. I had a job to do, and I did it all these years to the best of my ability. That's what I'd like to leave behind as I finish my final game in Toronto.

Ernie Harwell

#100. I firmly believe that the best way to stimulate our economy and create jobs is to let hard-working Americans keep more of their money - after all, the money belongs to them, not to Washington.

Rob Bishop