- Nov 07, 2020
Job Quotes
What a job costs, and what it takes.
Quotes about "job" here focus on careers in the arts — a warning that a comfortable day job can quietly end a musician's ambitions, and advice to take any first job just to get into the industry. For work-focused reflection, see Doing quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
A founder is the emotional energy aorta of a company. The energy that emanates from a founder attracts people and capital to the endeavor. When that energy goes away, it can feel impossible to do the job.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. My job is to come out here and hoop, and that's what I'm going to do.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I probably looked pretty conventionally successful as a 24-year-old getting paid $125,000 a year, plus bonus, wearing suits, and living in a Manhattan apartment. But I hated my job, I didn't admire the people I was working with, and I felt that I was becoming a smaller, less imaginative, less risk-taking, less likable version of myself.
- Good People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The technologists and entrepreneurs I know are generally good people. If they were given a choice, 'Do your job and eliminate normal jobs' or 'Do your job and create abundant opportunities,' they would choose the latter. Most of them would happily even take a small hit to do so. But this isn't a choice they're given.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would not outlaw or eliminate private health insurance. But if we do a good enough job, with a robust public option, there really should not be as much of a need for private insurance in the market.
- Cemented
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- Nov 07, 2020
The summer after college, I got a job as a chef at Conscience Point Inn in Southampton. I spent the summer on the water and cemented my expertise with seafood. I've always gravitated toward places that do seafood.
- Good Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rating agencies historically actually did a pretty good job rating regular bonds.
- Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020
My job is to make sure our caucus and our movement is united. That means not bringing up divisive issues that would divide even our own party.
- Nov 07, 2020
Really I just want to get on with my job, which is to pretend to be lots of different people. Simple as that.
- Nov 07, 2020
This whole quest to win the 2019 World Cup, that was my job when I was director of England cricket.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to make it clear that the lobbying sector does an important job. It is very useful to the government to hear the views of a broad range of groups to make sure we get the best.
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020