Better Jobs Quotes

#1. In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high.

Stephen Covey

#2. Innovations and discoveries have created new industries giving more and more Americans better jobs and adding greatly to the prosperity and well being of all.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#3. In our high-tech, high-skilled economy where low-skilled work is being scaled back, phased out, exported, or severely under-compensated, all the right behavior in the world won't create better jobs with more pay.

Michael Eric Dyson

#4. We're leaving the House to people who either were born with a silver spoon in their mouth ... or couldn't get better jobs in the first place.

Jerry Lewis

#5. You can choose better relationships, better jobs, better places to live, better uses of your time and better ways of treating yourself.

Bryant McGill

#6. If a student takes a Stanford computer class and a Princeton business class, it shows they are motivated and have skills. We know it has helped employees get better jobs.

Daphne Koller

#7. People who do "lowly" jobs with love and energy find themselves being promoted and offered other "better" jobs very quickly. Because they understand what Robert Frost meant when he said, "The way out is through.

Steve Chandler

#8. Better degrees don't automatically translate into better skills and better jobs and better lives.

Andreas Schleicher

#9. Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.

Solomon Ortiz

#10. Tax credits do not help people get better jobs; in fact, they can create poverty traps that actually disincentivise people from working more hours or finding a better paid job.

Theresa May

#11. All of us aspire to give our children something more, leave a country to our children that is a better one, a stronger one, with better jobs and growth and opportunity.

Byron Dorgan

#12. My whole purpose really is to try to help working families to find better jobs and get better benefits and look out for the little guy.

Frank Pallone

#13. It's coaches. It's people that are involved in kids' lives at every level, and it's supporting their parents. Their parents need better jobs. So that they can help them with their homework and don't have to work two jobs.

Donna Shalala

#14. Economically, men and women almost form two castes; all things being equal, the former have better jobs, higher wages, and greater chances to succeed than their new female competitors; they occupy many more places in industry, in politics, and so forth, and they hold the most important positions.

Simone De Beauvoir

#15. It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.

Ron Livingston

#16. Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves.

Ann Curry

#17. My mom and my dad wanted my brother and I to have a better life, you know, better education, better jobs. It was probably harder, much, much harder, for my parents. When you're a kid, you can learn a language much more easily; I learned English in less than a year.

Mila Kunis

#18. You better do your job and not lean on me to do it for you.

Jon Taffer

#19. Studio press agents make up anything they want to, and reporters go along with it. One flack created the legend that I had been blown up in an air crash during the war, and my face had to be put back together by way of plastic surgery. If it is a 'bionic face,' why didn't they do a better job of it?

Jack Palance

#20. 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

#21. The ideal situation for a parent is one that no one has - having a fulfilling job that requires you to work three days a week. It's better for the parents, because they get to spend time with the children and also have a source of pride and achievement - and income - outside the home.

Tina Fey

#22. Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows she still has a job next year.

Dan Quayle

#23. To be on set every day with a whole bunch of people that know their job and my job a lot better than I do and I'm supposed to tell them what to do, that's very uncomfortable and awkward.

Timothy Miller

#24. Let's not kid ourselves. Whatever we diagnose, most patients, if they don't die, get well by themselves. Our job is mainly to try to make them feel better; do no harm.

Diane Frolov

#25. We cannot become the world's policeman, but where our values and our interests are at stake, and where we can make a difference, we must act and we must lead. That is our job and we are better, stronger and safer because we are doing it.

William J. Clinton

#26. To have a job where you can make things better for people? That's a blessing. Why would I do anything else?

Marla Ruzicka

#27. Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can.

Seth Godin

#28. The "Powers That Be" are not smart enough to engineer Armageddon, but they may yet be stupid enough. If governments are involved in covering up the knowledge of aliens, then they are doing a much better job of it than they seem to do at anything else.

Stephen Hawking

#29. Personally, I really hope I can treat everyone equally. I think I have done a pretty good job so far but I know I can do it better.

Warren Buffett

#30. You can't look at the competition and say you're going to do it better. You have to look at the competition and say you're going to do it differently.

Steve Jobs

#31. Without a solution to the problems of the poor, we will not solve the problems of the world. We need projects, mechanisms and processes to implement better distribution of resources, from the creation of new jobs to the integral promotion of those who are excluded'.

Pope Francis

#32. Government should allow people to go out and do the things Americans have always done, create jobs and prosperity. And America's role in the world - the world is a safer and better place when America is the strongest country in the world.

Marco Rubio

#33. The men sometimes do a better job of concealing their hate than the women. With the feminists, you can see it in their faces.

Phyllis Schlafly

#34. If you didn't voice your opinion, [Steve Jobs] would mow you down," said Cook. "He takes contrary positions to create more discussion, because it may lead to a better result. So if you don't feel comfortable disagreeing, then you'll never survive.

Walter Isaacson

#35. It's my job for Oracle, the number two software company in the world; to become the number one software company in the world. My job is to build better than the competition, sell those products in the marketplace and eventually supplant Microsoft and move from being number two to number one.

Larry Ellison

#36. Just think! Garden, garden, garden, garden, garden, two happy people, and it could have gone on forever! They knew, they'd been told, but they ate it anyway, and from there on out, 'family!' Shame, fear, jobs, mortality, envy, murder ... "
"Well," William said brightly, "and sex.

Deborah Eisenberg

#37. You have a part-time job and that's better to no job at all

Dan Quayle

#38. There are millions of women who are trapped in lower-paying jobs and don't have the skills for a higher-paying job, and don't have the money or the time to access the higher education that they need for a better job.

Marco Rubio

#39. We always enter markets where the leaders are not doing a great job, so we can go in and disrupt them by offering better quality services.

Richard Branson

#40. PDCA is the essence of managerial work: making sure the job gets done today and developing better ways to do it tomorrow.

Brian L. Joiner

#41. Being an actress has something in common with being a housewife. They both look terribly easy to someone who hasn't done them. And the easier it looks, probably the better you are doing your job.

Glenda Jackson

#42. Without hesitation, each time, my answer was our standing with Hispanics and Latinos. We must do a better job of reaching out to these communities and demonstrate to them that our party is aligned with the aspirations Hispanics have for their families and for America.

Kevin Madden

#43. [In 2011] What Steve Jobs did was simply make everything and everyone better.

Lee Clow

#44. Acting aggressively will allow our youth to aspire for better-paid jobs and find alternatives to criminality.

Enrique Pena Nieto

#45. 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

#46. Even though I worked hard at times, it was always magical. I have to confess I enjoyed every minute of it. Even the down times I enjoyed, because we were creating something that would make people smile and lift their hearts. You can't think of a better job than that.

Floyd Norman

#47. I have several friends that have outlasted both of my marriages that are raising wonderful children together that have been together in gay unions for over 25 years. So they're doing a better job than I am!

Vanessa L. Williams

#48. You know, you keep on innovating, you keep on making better stuff. And if you always want the latest and greatest, then you have to buy a new iPod at least once a year.

Steve Jobs

#49. Jobs insisted that Apple focus on just two or three priorities at a time. "There is no one better at turning off the noise that is going on around him," Cook said. "That allows him to focus on a few things and say no to many things. Few people are really good at that.

Walter Isaacson

#50. The Defense Department must do a better job of providing the best possible care for service women who are victims of sexual assault.

Louise Slaughter

#51. 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

#52. Simplify the task. Continually look for faster, better, easier ways to get the job done.

Brian Tracy

#53. Nobody wants a job where they don't have authority to go along with the responsibility. Quite the contrary. The more authority you give people, the better people you can attract, and the harder they're going to work, and the more loyal they are going to be.

Michael Bloomberg

#54. Sayings from Chairman Jobs." 1. Real artists ship. 2. It's better to be a pirate than join the navy. 3. Mac in a book by 1986.

Andy Hertzfeld

#55. I keep thinking about all the time away from my family this will cause, and the time away from the other family at Pixar," Jobs said. "But the only reason I want to do it is that the world will be a better place with Apple in it.

Walter Isaacson

#56. We believe people with Passion CAN change the World for the Better. -Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs

#57. You'll sometimes hear from people that they actually do a better job of getting their work done when they have a lot of other obligations - in effect, it removes the possibility of procrastinating.

James Surowiecki

#58. Kids do better, frankly [when the economy is strong]. Jobs make great years for kids.

Edward Zigler

#59. We can no longer continue with a status quo energy policy. We must create sustainable clean energy jobs and leave the planet to our children and grandchildren in better shape than we found it.

Jeff Merkley

#60. When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "success mechanism" within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or "willpower.

Maxwell Maltz

#61. We're gonna be using American produced, American energy that will create jobs in the United States, will create a far more secure source of energy for us and will make us better environmental stewards because we will be contributing less to climate change and burning much cleaner fuel.

Ray Mabus

#62. She hated her job the same way I hated my jobs because she knew she was worth more, but she also hated herself so there wasn't much point in trying to do better.

Tawni O'Dell

#63. The central challenge for any company, regardless of its size, is to keep doing a better job for its customers.

Ralph Nader

#64. My first job was to run a concessions cart. Later, I found a position at the Pacific Film Archive. Thus began a long series of jobs, each one slightly better than the last, that continued for a decade, until I sold my first novel, and still goes on, even now.

Mona Simpson

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

Andruw Jones

#66. The sure way to success is so simple, but it requires character, guts, persistence, the mastery of lower jobs to be ready for the better ones.

Norman Vincent Peale

#67. It is better to develop ideas with friends rather than the usual route of having a great idea and throwing it out into a production, and being surrounded by professionals who've been doing their jobs for years.

David Gordon Green

#68. And they do those jobs not because they want to take away anything from America, but because they want to give their skills, their sweat, their labor, for a better life and to help build a better America, just as those who came before them.

Luis Gutierrez

#69. If I'm going through a hard part of my life, I just think about the fact I am living a dream. Alot of people aren't as fortunate to have their hobby-the thing they love to do most-as their job. I just think about that and I feel better.

Mats Sundin

#70. 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

#71. I believe only foreigners should run for president ... Face it, the presidency is a lousy job. And who does lousy jobs we don't want anymore better than foreigners?

Bill Maher

#72. Just blow in it and sound bad for about a year and then make it sound a little bit better, and you get a little band together, and then you get a few jobs. You take four guys that sound half bad, but if they're 25 percent each, they can give 100 percent, you know?

Quincy Jones

#73. If you can hire people whose passion intersects with the job, they won't require any supervision at all. They will manage themselves better than anyone could ever manage them. Their fire comes from within, not from without. Their motivation is internal, not external.

Stephen Covey

#74. On the whole, it seems to me that probably the American press is doing a better job of this mediation, so to speak, between the people and the administration than the press of any other country.

Walter Millis

#75. Building a road might create temporary jobs, but does it really create wealth if it doesn't also shorten commute times or otherwise make society better off?

Myron Scholes

#76. I'm here to say there is a choice. If you want to stick to the status quo, pick the Republicans or Democrats, but don't complain. Nobody can do a better job than I can.

Scott Ashjian

#77. 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

#78. The most important step in getting a job done is the recognition of the problem. Once I recognize a problem I usually can think of someone who can work it out better than I could.

Leo Szilard

#79. 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

#80. I feel very angry when I think of brilliant, or even interesting, women whose minds are wasted on a home. Better have an affair. It isn't permanent and you keep your job.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#81. I've never seen a job being done by a five-hundred-person engineering team that couldn't be done better by fifty people.

Gordon Bell

#82. 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

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

Derrick Rose

#84. 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

#85. I love having people around who are better interviewers than I am and who can make the time to do a really great job. All of the interviews that we've published are with people who really interest me.

Lorin Stein

#86. Sir Alex, Mourinho, Wenger - none of them could have done
a better job at Wigan than Steve Bruce ...

Alvin Martin

#87. I'd like to run for president. Or Prime Minister. I think I could do a better job.

Thom Yorke

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

Bruce Lansky

#89. We had these sudden revelations that employment, the daily nine-to-five, was driving us far from our better selves.

Joshua Ferris

#90. 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

#91. If I'm going to create 1,000 jobs, or 10,000 jobs, or whatever the number is, wouldn't we all be better off?

William E. Conway Jr.

#92. From my point of view, it is better to take the chance, having had nine jobs in 10 years, to recharge my batteries

John Richard Reid

#93. There is a middle class in America for only one reason: organized labor. If not for organized labor, where would you find a job where you had some sense that you had a shot of leaving behind something better than you inherited?.

Joe Biden

#94. I just want to do a good job with each role that I take and continue to better myself as an actress because that's what I love about this job ... being able to act and work with so many different people on such a wide range of projects.

Emma Stone

#95. Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.

Steve Jobs

#96. 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

#97. Perform your job better than anyone else can. That's the best job security I know.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#98. What's important to have is a president that's focused on jobs, the economy, giving our children a better future and keeping our nation strong and safe.

Mary Fallin

#99. I had a very high opinion of my father's judgement of things and he said, "You better get a job that pays the bills because a writer doesn't make any money. If possible, get a job that allows you to write in your spare time."

Andrew Davies

#100. The world operates by number, by physical laws, expressed mathematically. If you know these, you will have a better grasp of things. And some possible job skills.

Kim Stanley Robinson