Job Seeking Quotes

#1. Investors must remember that their first job is to preserve their capital. After they've dealt with that, they can approach the second job, seeking a return on that capital.

Irving Kahn

#2. Just make as much money as you can, but try your best not to rob or get robbed, it will sweep all that you have and leave your hands empty.

Auliq Ice

#3. Earn your confidence, nurture it, then help to build it in others.

Alex Malley

#4. Never forget - someone else didn't get the job that day because you were the best candidate with the most unique combination of skills and talent.

Carla Harris

#5. Where there is less pain, there is also less pay.

Auliq Ice

#6. It's my experience that very few writers, young or old, are really seeking advice when they give out their work to be read. They want support; they want someone to say, "Good job."

John Irving

#7. Finding a job that is a good fit is as much about you selecting the right company as it is about them selecting the right candidate.

Miles Anthony Smith

#8. There remains a natural career progression even though the tougher job climate seeks to delay it.

Miles Anthony Smith

#9. A business owner is the boss, but it's a job, a place that is stable and profitable. An entrepreneur is an artist of sorts, throwing his/herself into impossible situations and seeking out problems that require heart and guts to solve. Both are fine, but choose.

Seth Godin

#10. There is enough work for every soul, if we use our specific gifts to meet the specific needs of the society.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. Our career mantra should be learn, relearn, repeat.

Miles Anthony Smith

#12. I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent.

William Vickrey

#13. It's easy to get sidetracked with thoughts that involve much money and precious things, but before you launch into that mode, reason well.

Auliq Ice

#14. It's really important for me to do the fundamentals of this job really, really well. And to let people know that I think the core responsibilities of a member of Congress aren't seeking the national headlines or being the spokesperson on this issue or that issue when you just get there.

Joseph P. Kennedy III

#15. In the name of all that is holy, please consider the wages of a particular profession before you select that degree plan.

Miles Anthony Smith

#16. What someone may lack in talent can be more than made up for in self-motivation, self-direction, and follow-through.

Miles Anthony Smith

#17. Our prayer is not simply, 'Dear God, please send me a better job,' but, 'Dear God, enable me to see this situation differently, that this area of apparent lack might be healed inside my mind.

Marianne Williamson

#18. We don't deserve our job. Period.

Miles Anthony Smith

#19. Changing careers, is something that takes you forward into unexplored territory, but you need not to get scared, maybe it's exactly where your success is hiden, explore it well and you will find.

Auliq Ice

#20. You'll earn more money doing something you love, rather than just doing something because it pays you a high salary.

Auliq Ice

#21. It's not my job to make you happy. It's your job to learn that only those who quit selfishly seeking their own happiness find it.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#22. Adaptability is the name of the game; if you understand that you must now be adaptable and flexible, you will find a way to succeed in your career. If not, you will succumb to job market pressures.

Miles Anthony Smith

#23. Whereas previous generations had to face some unpredictability, current generations are facing unprecedented levels of instability.

Miles Anthony Smith

#24. The job description, like most, used complicated words that made job-hopefuls hesitant to apply because it may be out of their range of capability.

S.A. Tawks

#25. You don't support politicians in their elections if whoever's seeking money only has a goal to stay in office or get in office. You have to pick the people who are going to do the best job.

Eli Broad

#26. As long as there are ways we can serve, then we have a job to do.

Marianne Williamson

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

Miles Anthony Smith

#28. Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking.

John Kennedy Toole

#29. Do you want a level of income to fit your lifestyle or a lifestyle to fit your income level?

Miles Anthony Smith

#30. Jobs suck, but when you work on your passion, it is never a job, no matter how hard and how long you have to work.

Ben Tolosa

#31. Anyone who is honestly seeking a job and can't find it, deserves the attention of the United States government, and the people.

John F. Kennedy

#32. To think because you have been "saved" that you are now sane is insanity. God doesn't fix the mind. He only gives you opportunities to have moments of clarity. It is your job to climb the mountain and see above the clouds for yourself, not to believe the congregation's interpretation of the view.

Shannon L. Alder

#33. If it annoys you when team members ask about their next promotion or talk about other job opportunities in the industry, you have motivational problems in the making. You need to build a habit of proactively seeking employee interests and suggesting follow-up steps.

Martin Zwilling

#34. I am suggesting that we don't put the "income" cart before the "contentment" horse.

Miles Anthony Smith

#35. When you work on what you love, you have the best job in the world.

Ben Tolosa

#36. at your job, if you haven't mastered the skills of your job or aren't seeking to do so, you aren't serving your employer and coworkers as well as you should. You might even be making the work of others harder. Mediocre work is not Christian! We are to love our neighbor as ourselves

Matt Perman

#37. The surest way to ensure career extinction is to resist change and adaptation.

Miles Anthony Smith

#38. Our job as writers is to be as curious as a child, to see things for the first time, and to never assume. We must always be willing to surrender our idea of the story to allow the larger story to emerge. We are seeking to understand the nature of things, the underlying forces at work.

Alan Watt

#39. She paused, and I took the opportunity to practice the only promotional skill at my disposal: fluttering my fingers over the telephone's mouthpiece, I attempted to cast a spell, silently chanting, It's me who you want. Me, me, me.

David Sedaris

#40. Even though your time on the job is temporary, if you do a good enough job, your work there will last forever.

Idowu Koyenikan

#41. When presented with an open door in your job, drive a Mack truck through it.

Miles Anthony Smith

#42. Job moans that it is wanton cruelty that suffering people, brutalized or in mourning, should have to relive their horrors in dreams. In fact, why should any of us, in seeking rest, be met with nightmares?

Jennifer Michael Hecht

#43. Everyone is dispensable but some are more dispensable than others.

Miles Anthony Smith

#44. Labor saving devices have destroyed many jobs but have given rise to many new ones. It simply is up to us if we are going to resist or embrace the future.

Miles Anthony Smith