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Job Quotes

When you’ve got some talent, your job is to use it.

– Howard Hawks

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

I have a problem with players who don’t take the loss personally. At a professional level you should – it’s our job, it’s our livelihood, it’s who we are at this level. Every loss should be taken that personal.

– Hope Solo

The lifeblood of job creation in America is small business, but they can’t get access to credit.

– Howard Schultz

I’m a working stiff. I just happened to be around at the right time, and nobody else wanted the job.

– Harry Bridges

Any man who has had the job I’ve had and didn’t have a sense of humor wouldn’t still be here.

– Harry S Truman

When I first started editing a ‘Year’s Best’ volume in the ’70s, the job was pretty straightforward – there were three or four monthly magazines to read and a few original anthologies from trade publishers every year.

– Gardner Dozois

People have this belief that actors are able to go out there and say, ‘Oh I choose this job,’ but most of the time we’re just taking the job we can get. We don’t just get offered thousands of jobs; we might earn one job a year and that’s the one we’ll take because we’ve got to pay the rent.

– Henry Cavill

Programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and job retraining help Americans get back on their feet when they are down and out and laid off through no fault of their own.

– Hank Johnson

Up to that point I never really knew what my character would be expected to do, and prior to accepting the job I had actually turned down the role three times before finally giving in.

– Gil Gerard

I’ve been acting professionally since I was 24, and it’s the only job I’ve ever done.

– Grant Show

To me, job titles don’t matter. Everyone is in sales. It’s the only way we stay in business.

– Harvey Mackay

Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can’t understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.

– Haley Barbour

I was working probably at the age of 10, when I had my first paper route. I had every different kind of job you could possibly imagine as a young kid.

– Howard Schultz

My first job was a commercial for Ball Park Fun Franks.

– Hunter Parrish

I run an academy in Spain for young footballers who are released by their clubs and who, in my opinion, deserve a second chance. It is a rewarding job for me, but one that also reveals many of the faults in the English game.

– Glenn Hoddle

I think fiction writers should work. If you have a job and are not living off advances or grants, you never have to make concessions in your writing, ever.

– Hanya Yanagihara

If people feel 4-4-2 is the way forward in international football, they’ll have to wait until I’m out of a job.

– Glenn Hoddle

In the 1960s, if you were a blue collar worker or uneducated, and you had an injury on the job, the company basically dismissed you.

– Howard Schultz

One of the great things about my job is I get to do all of these things that I may not experience had I not been an actor.

– Hilary Swank

Pessimism doesn’t grow your business or even maintain the status quo. The pessimists on your staff make the job harder for everyone around them. They make difficulties out of opportunities.

– Harvey Mackay

This job certainly doesn’t win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it’s probably quite a worthwhile job.

– Ian Hislop

I don’t know anybody else who lives 1,000 miles away from their job and gets to commute back and forth. The owner said, ‘You can live in your beloved Swifton, but don’t you dare miss a game.’ I had a few close calls, but I didn’t miss any.

– George Kell

Joe Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1972 at age 30. Somewhere around 1992, he should have had to go out and get a real job.

– Howie Carr

Our job is to make people free.

– Grover Norquist

I never talk about a job before the contract is signed and I’ve shot the first three days.

– Grant Bowler

I thought Jack’s directing job was the best thing about the film.

– Harvey Keitel

Writing is writing to me. I’m incapable of saying no to any writing job, so I’ve done everything – historical fiction, myths, fairy tales, anything that anybody expresses any interest in me writing, I’ll write. It’s the same reason I used to read as a child: I like going somewhere else and being someone else.

– Geraldine McCaughrean

The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.

– Helen Garner

You’re in a situation where you have limited education opportunities, you don’t have any money, you can’t get a job; what are you going to do? You’re going to go back to this criminal network that you actually made while you were in prison.

– Hill Harper

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