Job quotes and words of wisdom

"A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs."
Robert Townsend


"All jobs are easy to the person who doesn"t have to do them."



"Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it."
Elias Schwartz


"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."
Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Careers, like rockets, don?t always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working on the engines."
Gary Sinise


"Do it the hard way! Think ahead of your job. Then nothing in the world can keep the job ahead from reaching out for you. Do it better than it need be done. Next time doing it will be child"s play. Let no one or anything stand between you and the difficult task, let nothing deny you this rich chance to gain strength by adversity, confidence by mastery, success by deserving it. Do it better each time. Do it better than anyone else can do it. I know this sounds old-fashioned. It is, but it has built the world."
Harlow H. Curtice


"Each of will one day be judged By our standard of life, Not by our standard of living; By our measure of giving, Not by our measure of w3alth; By our simple goodness, Not by our seeming greatness."
William Arthur Ward


"Ever judge of men by their professions. For though the bright moment of promising is but a moment, and cannot be prolonged, yet if sincere in its moment"s extravagant goodness, why, trust it, and know the man by it, I say,? not by his performance; which is half the world"s work, interfere as the world needs must with its accidents and circumstances: the profession was purely the man"s own. I judge people by what they might be,? not are, nor will be."
Robert Browning


"I don"t think anybody yet has invented a pastime that"s as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job."
Frederick Hudson Ecker


"I don"t want any "yes-men" around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs."
Samuel Goldwyn


"I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart."
Jerome Klapka Jerome


"I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart."
Jerome K. Jerome


"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly."
Gilbert Keith Chesterton


"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly ... very slowly."
Gypsy Rose Lee


"If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them."
Jane Fonda


"It beats picking cotton."
Proverb


"It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work."
Henry Moore


"My father always told me, "Find a job you love and you"ll never have to work a day in your life.""
Jim Fox


"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."
Henry Ford


"Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching."
Philip Crosby


"The closest anyone ever comes to perfection is on a job application form."
Unknown


"The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form."
Stanley J. Randall


"The difficult tasks to be performed are not the ones that mean physical and mental labor, but the ones that you dislike, are the ones that you do not love. There are unpleasant angles to nearly every important job to be done in this world, but there must be an over all love for doing each, else precious time and effort are uselessly wasted. I shall never forget noting a sign above a construction job that read: "Builder of Difficult Foundations." That man must have loved that calling, else he would not have made a point of advertising the fact!"
George Matthew Adams


"The highest reward for a man?s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it."
John Ruskin


"The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How"s the President?"
Will Rogers


"The only jobs for which no man is qualified are human incubator and wet nurse. Likewise, the only job for which no woman is or can be qualified is sperm donor."
Wilma Scott Heide


"There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job."
Peter F. Drucker


"There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job."
George Crane


"There is perhaps one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job"s sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is afreak."
Dorothy L. Sayers


"There may be luck in getting a good job?but there"s no luck in keeping it."
J. Ogden Armour


"We"re supposed to be perfect our first day on the job and then show constant improvement."
Ed Vargo


"Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well."
Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield


"When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty."
George Bernard Shaw


"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell "em, "Certainly I can!" ? and get busy and find out how to do it."
Theodore ROOSEVELT


Interesting Quotes

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.Dame Rose Macaulay - English novelist (1881 - 1958)

For every problem, there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong.Henry Louis Mencken