Quotes on Jobs

Well, developers do want to touch a lot of customers. We have to make our platform very popular in order for them to do that. If we make their jobs easier, then they'll be more likely to stay on the Windows platform.

Author: Jim Allchin

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Author: Aristotle

Since then I have held many jobs at museums in Colorado and Wyoming. I have also taught summer courses at the University of Colorado.

Author: Robert Bakker

As an undergraduate I held many small jobs as an illustrator.

Author: Robert Bakker

Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along.

Author: Paul Bettany

Trade helps bring us products cheaply, but there is no guarantee whatsoever to assume that it will allow us to replace the jobs that have been lost, and there is no mechanism under productivity that says that, either.

Author: Tim Bishop

For a variety of reasons, we are not producing at a given level of economic activity the jobs we used to have.

Author: Tim Bishop

What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it's the Super Bowl. The ad shows kids working at blue-collar jobs, and the final statement is just written text: Who's going to pay for the trillion dollar deficit?

Author: Joan Blades

22 million new jobs under President Clinton. 3 million lost under Bush.

Author: Sidney Blumenthal

More than 54,000 jobs in the region are dependent upon the Port of Philadelphia alone.

Author: Robert Brady

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.

Author: William Brennan, Jr.

The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs.

Author: Jerry Brown

Since 2000, we have lost 2.7 million manufacturing jobs, of which 500,000 jobs were in high-tech industries such as telecommunications and electronics.

Author: Jerry Costello

President Bush has said that the ecomnomy is growing, that there are jobs out there. But you know, it's a long commute to China to get those jobs.

Author: Tom Daschle

I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs.

Author: David Dinkins

Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.

Author: Peter Drucker

There have been openings, but I have not interviewed for any jobs, nor do I want to right now.

Author: John Elway

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

Author: Malcolm Forbes

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

Author: Henry Ford

President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown.

Author: Newt Gingrich

When you've moved past a point where you're just scrambling for jobs, you think about the things that you want to do. And the things that you want to do are governed by what you've seen, what you choose to embrace.

Author: Danny Glover

We have to protect all journalists, and journalists have to be allowed to do their jobs.

Author: Amy Goodman

The Clinton administration brought 65 cases from 1995 to 2000 before the World Trade Organization. The Bush administration has brought twelve. Twelve cases. They haven't even been able to stand up for our jobs.

Author: Jennifer Granholm

Obviously we want to keep the jobs we've got.

Author: Jennifer Granholm

I've had bad jobs. Now I have a good one. I'm thankful.

Author: Maurice Greene

I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.

Author: Marilyn Hacker

It's estimated for every $1 billion we spend on road construction, nearly 48,000 jobs are created.

Author: Dennis Hastert

If you look at the data, the inner city that was the riot zone lost 55,000 jobs in the ten years from 1992 to 2002, instead of gaining a surplus of 50,000.

Author: Tom Hayden

Producing fuel cells and solar panels requires high tech facilities and produces high paying jobs. The industry is booming in Arizona. The state already has about 100 firms in the solar industry and has grown 20% since 2003.

Author: J. Hayworth

I tell ya, I could have got some more jobs if I'd tried, but I went to Sweden instead.

Author: Lee Hazlewood

Those 3,000 jobs in Sioux Falls, based on our population back then in Sioux Falls, would have taken 300,000 jobs in New York City to equal it at Citibank.

Author: Bill Janklow

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?

Author: Quincy Jones

I have known lots of adults who enjoyed similar enthusiasms as a kid and weren't encouraged and then didn't go anywhere with it and so they're unhappy in their jobs as adults.

Author: William Joyce

Since President Bush took office, we have lost 3 million more good jobs.

Author: Marcy Kaptur

One guy records the voices, another guy times the storyboard, another guy times the sheets, one guy is the story editor. All these jobs should be covered by the director.

Author: John Kricfalusi

When I say "work" I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.

Author: Margaret Laurence

Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.

Author: Vince Lombardi

We met and married when both of us knew exactly what our jobs were. He was only 32, but he'd been all over the place. I'd been working on films and television shows all over the world.

Author: Joanna Lumley

Since NAFTA was put in place, Mexico has lost 1.9 million jobs and most Mexicans' real wages have fallen.

Author: Stephen Lynch

We probably do not have a large enough industry here to ably support the independent filmmaker to move in and out. Much of the industry is based on full-time jobs here, institutionalised jobs.

Author: Ann Macbeth

I've actually been turned down for jobs because I was in Playboy.

Author: Karen McDougal

I think I'll be fine in New York. If I could stay here and just get jobs in New York, that would be fine and that's what I'd want to do. I don't want to move.

Author: Jason Mewes

Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984.

Author: Kevin Mitnick

I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like that for a few years, getting jobs in bits and pieces.

Author: Kate Moss

I started going back and forth, New York, London, New York, London. I wasn't looking back at all. I was doing tons of jobs. Working, working, working, working.

Author: Kate Moss

Then, of course, I played alto and tenor, wherever there were jobs.

Author: Gerry Mulligan

The United States and Arizona are both losing jobs to offshore locations.

Author: Janet Napolitano

Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States' oil reserves by nearly 50 percent, but it will create thousands of good U.S. jobs.

Author: Bob Ney

Texas created more jobs in 2008 than the rest of the states - combined.

Author: Rick Perry

Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits.

Author: Rick Perry

I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing.

Author: Thomas Perry

Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.

Author: Edward Rendell

I loved playing and I was actually working two jobs.

Author: Johnny Rivers

Until the Chinese decide to compete fairly it will be up to us to do what we can to further protect our manufacturing base, and ensure we keep the good paying jobs we already have.

Author: Mike Rogers

The defence and air defence ministers were both replaced and more than 2,000 officers lost their jobs.

Author: Mathias Rust

Estimates show that small businesses contribute 60-80 percent of the net new jobs annually.

Author: Michael Simpson

But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.

Author: Elliott Smith

We are a long way from getting back the jobs lost since President Bush took office.

Author: Pete Stark

I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester.

Author: John Thaw

We've lost 3,000 jobs in Beaufort County. We've lost half of our manufacturing workforce.

Author: Tommy Thompson

Build the roads and the jobs follow.

Author: Tommy Thompson

But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.

Author: Jack Vance

One out of three jobs in Washington is tied to trade.

Author: Larry Williams

Our thinking behind these agreements is that we want all jobs in General Motors to be good jobs.

Author: Charles Wilson

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

Author: Chely Wright

I've had to do all kinds of jobs to pay the rent. I've even worked in a Cornish tin mine.

Author: Peter Wright