Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

I guess I'm getting to the age where a lot of other people my age have real jobs, and when they're hard-up they refer to an old-timer like me.

I thought I was kind of a hotshot because I had had two years of work experience at Morgan Stanley, and I was about to get my Stanford M.B.A.

None of my characters have really had jobs.

A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.

The hardest thing in my industry is longevity, getting your next job. It's hard to get the first job, but it's so much harder to get the sixth or seventh as a woman.

There are lots of jobs in search of talent. And there's lots of talent in search of meaningful work.

The best jobs will go to the best educated people.

Anyone with a job wants to hear about how to keep it or get a better one, not what a politician has to offer when workers find themselves with a pink slip.

Being able to hear someone say, 'I found an incredible job on The Muse,' or 'It gave me courage to make a career change,' that's the motivating factor.

It feels great to know that more people are finding work and gaining the experience, not to mention self-confidence, that they need.

Some jobs pay better, some jobs smell better, and some jobs have no business being treated like careers. But work is never the enemy, regardless of the wage. Because somewhere between the job and the paycheck, there’s still a thing called opportunity, and that’s what people need to pursue.

My only intention is to just have a little bit more success so that my career is easier and I don't have to work so hard just to get a job.

Fortunately for me, I was able to see the newspaper and saw that they were hiring in a new program called the Cedar Program, and I recall going to one of my Olympic buddies and saying, "Hey, man, this might be a shot in the arm for us. Let's go down and apply for these Cedar jobs."I took a job as a gardener caretaker.

The fundamental reality for every worker, from sweeper to executive vice-president, is the eight hours or so that he spends on the job. In our society of organizations, it is the job through which the great majority has access to achievement, to fulfillment, and to community.

You build a successful career, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job.

I did come to realize that getting your first job is hard, but it's not nearly as hard as getting your seventh job. That is hard. That's when you really have to prove it to people.

I think I just wanted to work when I finally came to Hollywood. That's what it was. I wanted to get a job, and then I wanted to get the second one.

A job leads to a job, just like anything else, and it became apparent that this was probably what I was going to keep doing.

If you're waiting for the job, you're dead.

I have always felt that the surest way to qualify for the job just ahead is to work a little harder than any one else on the job one is holding down.

Being a specialist is one thing, getting a job is another.

Diligence in employments of less consequence is the most successful introduction to greater enterprises.

And every job that I had was a stepping stone to my next job and I never quit my job until I had my next job. And so opportunities look a lot like work.

Dante didn't work out, and then we found Ryan. He worked at a comic, record and toy store in Fremont.

I think this happens to a lot of people, men and women, where you reach a point in your life and all of a sudden realize that things have changed. You suddenly realize that people are coming up behind you, that maybe somebody might want to replace you for less money.