Better Job Quotes

#1. If you have the choice, it's far better to say, "That person has the job, and they really don't need that much of my oversight." Maybe they don't need any of it.

Jamie Dimon

#2. We always think every other man's job is easier than our own. The better he does it, the easier it looks.

Eden Phillpotts

#3. We each must do a better job of choosing which hardships are best for our future, not just for the company's.

Bill Jensen

#4. Successful leaders all share one common trait - they believe that they can do a better job than the alternatives. Humility is fine when considering your responsibility and duty, but when it comes time to make a decision, you must not question yourself.

Brandon Sanderson

#5. It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.

Andrew Carnegie

#6. When someone gets a job, it better be clear what they did to get it.

Mark V. Hurd

#7. Can't we do better with Applicant Tracking System (ATS) software?

Miles Anthony Smith

#8. The best way to help a man increase his output is to help build the man. Help him increase his stature as a man, and he will just naturally do better-on the job and off.

Earl Nightingale

#9. There's not a better job in journalism than the one we have, seriously on '60 Minutes' - not a better job.

Mike Wallace

#10. Kids take work, effort, love, blood, sweat and tears and are a full time job. You have to commit, for better or worse and then give your all and hope for the best. The one thing you can never, ever do is give up and say, 'Oooops, never mind, my bad, you can take this one back!'

Dale Archer

#11. To put money into anything, anywhere, provided that the downside is measurable and acceptable and the chances of a good profit appear to be better than 50%. I will not take gambles, but it is part of my job description to be ready to take very carefully calculated risks.

Peter Cundill

#12. That, after all, was his job. The title of emperor carried with it only a single duty.
To make everything better.

Brandon Sanderson

#13. I determine to render more and better service, each day, than I am being paid to render. Those that reach the top are the ones who are not content with doing only what is required of them.

Og Mandino

#14. I know what my job is. I know what I've got to do. I've got to keep getting better.

Andruw Jones

#15. People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is better for me.

Princess Diana

#16. I feel that it's important to fail now and again. For instance, if I go for a job and I don't get it, that makes me not a better person, but more balanced, more aware of what life is really like.

Romola Garai

#17. If I can send one person home after a performance feeling better than when they arrived, then I've done my job, and I sleep good at night.

Cyrus Chestnut

#18. There are people who believe once somebody gets you a job in show business you are set and the truth is you have to fight for every job. People opened the doors for me for sure and hopefully I've helped open the door for some people but when you're there it's on you and you better be ready for it.

Tom Arnold

#19. You've got one job, and that is to get better.

Derrick Rose

#20. I have to do a better job of minimizing the damage in that inning and getting us back in there with the lead still.

Clay Buchholz

#21. I think that the churches do a better job in many respects than the government does in various kinds of things. Extending aid, the helpfulness, and so on, yes.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#22. The writer's job is to arouse emotions. The stronger the emotions the better.

Johan Fundin

#23. Parenting: Nobody really wants the job, but everybody thinks they can do better.

Bruce Lansky

#24. Knowing how to do a job is the accomplishment of labor - showing others is the accomplishment of the teacher - making sure the work is done by others is the accomplishment of the manager - inspiring others to do better work is the accomplishment of the leader.

John C. Maxwell

#25. I want to leave New Zealand in better shape than I found it. I know the job of prime minister is not forever and I'm going to do the best I can every day to make that difference.

John Key

#26. though we can educate the younger generation, we can even command them, we cannot control their lives, much as we think we'd do a better job of it.

Sherwood Smith

#27. There is nothing like a concrete life plan to weigh you down. Because if you always have one eye on some future goal, you stop paying attention the the job at hand, miss opportunities that might arise, and stay fixedly on one path, even when a better, newer course might have opened up.

Indra Nooyi

#28. Charlie Brown says that we're put here on earth to make others happy."
"Is that why we're here? I guess I'd better start doing a better job ... I'd hate to be shipped back!

Charles M. Schulz

#29. Motherhood definitely took the focus off of my work. And I didn't mind. I had a few panics when I thought that if I wanted to work I couldn't get a job anymore and then I would get one once in a while and it would make me feel better.

Uma Thurman

#30. It's pretty awesome. Mattel does such a great job with detail ... I'm way better looking than Ken. Barbie's been hitting on my action figure the whole time. She actually asked the stocking people if she could hang next to me, but they said no - because it's PG.

The Miz

#31. To me the director's job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.

Steven Soderbergh

#32. I personally feel very undecided whether it is better for a woman to stay and look after the home or go out to a job.

Geoffrey Howe

#33. It is not bad living in a monastery. I've done it many times in many lives. But I think you can do a better job outside the monastery, if you have the necessary component parts.

Frederick Lenz

#34. Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job brilliantly done.

Robin S. Sharma

#35. Over the near term there is clearly the opportunity to work with Microsoft to do to a better job of creating a more secure Windows experience for users around the world.

John W. Thompson

#36. My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.

Steve Jobs

#37. You just finished a job, as you refer to it. You must be tired and I can only imagine the enervating quality of an added threat of the state pen."

"California's state pen is Fisher," Cat said. "It can write upside down, but I think a pencil works better for that.

Nina Post

#38. America is divided by economics, and we as Americans, we've got to do a better job of supporting poor people.

Charles Barkley

#39. What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe. Anyone I know who has ever taken a risk and lost a job has ended up getting a better one two years later.

Jonathan Kozol

#40. If the government is covering up knowledge of aliens, they are doing a better job of it than they do at anything else.

Stephen Hawking

#41. It may not be as dramatic or funny to make a movie about a woman who loves both her job and her family, but that would be a better reflection of reality. We need more portrayals of women as competent professionals and happy mothers -

Sheryl Sandberg

#42. When good enough gets the job done, go for it. It's way better than wasting resources or, even worse, doing nothing because you can't afford the complex solution.

Jason Fried

#43. I don't believe any sort of traveler does a better job than any other sort of traveler at obeying traffic safety laws. It's difficult to foresee a camera program that can be used with bikers and walkers.

Robert James Thomson

#44. We, all of us, could do a much better job of evoking what someone has called the universal principle of human altruism: the urge in us all to help others who are in danger.

Bart Starr

#45. You've got a global food problem. You've got a food problem in the United States. You've got a food problem in Africa ... in Asia. And so the truth is, the U.S. is going to have to produce more, on not very many more acres, honestly. And so we're going to have to do a better job.

Howard Graham Buffett

#46. It's my job to be better than the rest, and that's enough reason to go for me. It's my job to be better than the rest, and that makes the day for me.

Jimmy Buffett

#47. Dave, would you please tell your wife she can relax. She's got the job. It isn't necessary for her to keep pointing out our short-comings just so you can feel better about leaving us.

Delora Dennis

#48. Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it's our job to do it one better.

Stanley Kubrick

#49. First, I want your solemn oath not even to talk in your sleep about this job."
"If my simple word is not good, is my oath better?

Robert A. Heinlein

#50. Our job here is not to build a better world ... but to do all we can to help make it brighter.

Timothy Pina

#51. Officiating is the only job in America that everybody knows how to do better than the guy who is doing it.

Larry Goetz

#52. The one surefire way to get me not to hire you is to send me your resume, especially if you've already got a good job. I won't be interested, because in a couple years, you'll be doing the same thing to me that you're doing to your current boss: looking for a better deal.

Bo Schembechler

#53. Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman, fat or thin, tall or short, ugly or beautiful, who is able to do that job better than the rest of the world.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#54. If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going. That doesn't mean quit your job and jump into your idea 100% from day one, but there's always small progress that can be made to start the movement.

Kevin Systrom

#55. We, as a league, must do a better job of protecting the integrity of the game and the safety of our players.

Mario Lemieux

#56. It's not really the job of a public servant to inspire, but to get the job that the people demand done. The Democrats think that if they have hope and are inspired, things will get better, but they actually won't.

Roseanne Barr

#57. When you go to Nashville and start co-writing, you start doing it as a job and the more you do it the better you get. You know if you build houses for 30 years you're better than you were the day you started. You know the ins and outs, you know all the nuances.

Lee Brice

#58. I think I would do a much better job if I had a chance to do things that were edgier than I get to do in comedies.

Seann William Scott

#59. The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women ... Human rights? They couldn't care less!

Isabel Allende

#60. Always give your best and try to figure out how to do an even better job.

Benjamin Carson

#61. I have always loved the competitive forces in this business. You know I certainly have meetings where I spur people on by saying, "Hey, we can do better than this. How come we are not out ahead on that?" Thats what keeps my job one of the most interesting in the world.

Bill Gates

#62. I'm a better mother if I'm also doing my work. Some women find a lot more satisfaction from doing the hardest job, which is being a mom. But I like my day job, so I juggle a lot.

Katey Sagal

#63. I'm not blind to the fact that we have to do a better job with our relationships between the community and police.

Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

#64. It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don't know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive.

Elon Musk

#65. Leena and Kelly Davidson have always lived a comfortable life. Neither girl has ever held a job nor did they intend to get one. All they wanted was to live off their parents' money for their rest of their lives. What could be better than that?

Valenciya Lyons

#66. I think television is doing a better job than films in terms of representing people, but television is still not diverse.

Tracee Ellis Ross

#67. I don't want to wake up and be bored. That's probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I've been on for a long time and had success with? I don't plan on giving it up any time soon.

Tom Brady

#68. Fatherhood will put a man through a lot, but it's a tremendous job, the best in the world - even better than playing basketball.

Derek Fisher

#69. Successful organizations front-load accountability into their strategy. When front-loaded, accountability breeds better relationships, eliminates surprises, and vastly improves job satisfaction and performance.

Henry J. Evans

#70. I'm a conservative first, and I believe that, if we do a better job of helping Americans understand what we're trying to do, to showcase every place in the country that our ideas are working at the state level, that that will help those at the federal level who want to carry those policies.

Jim DeMint

#71. Everywhere I travel throughout Eastern Washington, I hear from people demanding we do a better job of controlling our borders and reducing illegal immigration.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

#72. If politics mean ... the effort to secure through legislative action better conditions of life for the people, greater opportunities for our children and other people's children ... then it most assuredly is a woman's job as much as it is a man's job.

Irene Parlby

#73. Surgery is not my job. I have been the first artist to use aesthetic surgery in another context - not to appear younger or better according to the designated pattern. I wanted to disrupt the standarts of beauty.

Orlan

#74. Quality tends to fan out like waves. The Quality job he didn't think anyone was going to see was seen, and the person who feels it is a little bit better because of it, and is likely to pass that feeling onto others, and in that way the Quality tends to keep going.

Robert M. Pirsig

#75. If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#76. I don't buy that overused line about a woman's job making her a better mother. The children need more time. Everything in our home needs more time.

Holly Peterson

#77. My job ... I do nothing, it pays nothing, but - you guessed it - it's better than nothing.

Amy Hempel

#78. Sometimes we want our bodies to do a better job of showing the things that hurt us, the stories we keep hidden inside of us.

Ava Dellaira

#79. Third choice was to strike off toward some new projection - a new job, a better (different) relationship, a seductive ideology, or sometimes to drift into some unconscious "self-treatment plan" such as an addiction or an affair.

James Hollis

#80. I would be better at my job if I were technical.

Sheryl Sandberg

#81. Our job is to make others feel better and to find happiness. It will ultimately make you happy and abundant.

Debasish Mridha

#82. In the South, our lives kind of revolve around food and taking care of people with food. If someone was sick, or if they had had a baby, or if they had lost a loved one, or even if they lost a job, my momma was at their door with pie or a cake or something to help them feel better.

Kimberly Schlapman

#83. Life's not about feeling better, it's about getting the job done.

Ned Vizzini

#84. It's the interviewee's job to know that his privacy is going to be invaded on some level. Otherwise, you are better off not doing the interview.

John Travolta

#85. Out of college, I had two job offers. One was to be a canoe instructor for Outward Bound. And frankly, that would have paid better than the job I took, working on a policy commission in Washington that focused on immigration policy and refugees. But that decision made all the difference.

Rob Portman

#86. In America, people know there are always 10 people better than them who are after their job. In France, they know that too - but no one is going to get their job till they go to their grave.

Janine Di Giovanni

#87. Jesus, Ally, you're living with a stripper?"
"She decided not to do it. She got a job at Hooters instead."
"Oh, well, in that case, I feel much better," he says sarcastically.

Lauren Barnholdt

#88. A monkey could do my job better and with more hilarious results.

Marie-Helene Bertino

#89. We must do a better job of encouraging lifelong curiosity.

John Medina

#90. I think good physical conditioning is essential to any occupation. A man who is physically fit performs better at any job. Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

Vince Lombardi

#91. We kind of knew what they were doing. They brought pressure on the side with (Troy) Polamalu. The
way that they played the coverage was a little unique. Again, I've just got to do a better job than that.

Mike Tomlin

#92. Don't get a job in an abattoir. Don't be a butcher. The idea that people have to do these jobs for a livelihood is ridiculous. They can get other jobs. Shoplift, man. Better to be a prostitute than cut an animal's head off for a living.

Chrissie Hynde

#93. Mitt Romney will stop the attacks on job creators, encourage entrepreneurs to chase their dreams, and bring good jobs and a better future to all Americans.

Marco Rubio

#94. When you improve your product so it does the customer's job better, then you gain market share.

Clayton Christensen

#95. The messages a woman receives from modern North American culture are contradictory; she needs a job for fulfillment but should be home with her children; she is more than her looks, but she had better wear makeup and stay thin; she has every opportunity men have but only on men's terms.

Janell L. Carroll

#96. Hell was grey. Dim and lifeless... I felt numb and in pain at the same time and that was not supposed to happen in heaven. But you would think that with all the queers they had sent here since time began, hell would have a better decorating job.

J.M. Redmann

#97. The biggest mistake was that I didn't hire all the right people. I should have done better reference checks. I should have defined the roles in a much more professional manner. I hired people who just couldn't do the job.

Lillian Vernon

#98. I knew that good people who wanted to be a part of the American dream have become trapped in dependency because the federal government and the state government had made it in their economic interest not to take a job because the benefits that they didn't work were better. I changed that.

George Pataki

#99. You want to enjoy life, don't you? If you get your job done quickly and your job is fun, that's good isn't it? That's the purpose of life, partly. Your life is better.

Yukihiro Matsumoto

#100. I was tired of working in the lumber industry," Phil said. "I was sure I could find a better job, and look at me now - cook on a dilapidated submarine. Life keeps on getting better and better." "You always were an optimist," Klaus said.

Lemony Snicket