Job quotes

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◆ I like to call in sick to work at places where I've never held a job. Then when the manager tells me I don't work there, I tell them I'd like to. But not today, as I'm sick.

- Jarod Kintz100

◆ I met a guy who had an interesting job. He was a meat cutter, or a meat slicer, something like that. I probably butchered his job title.?

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ I didn't list listening as one of my skills, probably because I didn't hear what the interviewer asked.?

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ I work for a mom and pop business. They're my mom and pop, and by work I mean they give me an allowance. But that'll end soon. By age 30, in just a few months, they said it'd be time for me to earn a living. I guess that means they'll want me to start mowing the lawn.?

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ Crying about the economy is a strategy. It won't get you a job, but it will keep Kleenex in business.?

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ When I found him lying in the ditch holding a shovel, I thought he was sleeping on the job. Turns out he was being even lazier, and he was in fact dead. ?

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job because he will find an easy way to do it.

- Ziad K. Abdelnour99

◆ My job is to scream cockle-doodle-doo. Don't blame me if the sun doesn't rise.

- Janet Skeslien Charles99

◆ So I got a new job, and I start tomorrow. I'm excited to have a job, and bummed out I'm going to be working.

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

- Phil Jackson99

◆ Every day is important for us because it is a day ordained by God. If we are bored with life there is something wrong with our concept of God and His involvement in our daily lives. Even the most dull and tedious days of our lives are ordained by God and ought to be used by us to glorify Him.

- Jerry Bridges99

◆ I determine to render more and better service, each day, than I am being paid to render. Those that reach the top are the ones who are not content with doing only what is required of them.

- Og Mandino99

◆ You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well, and not be always saying, There's this and there's that—if I had this or that to do, I might make something of it. No matter what a man is—I wouldn't give twopence for him'— here Caleb's mouth looked bitter, and he snapped his fingers— ‘whether he was the prime minister or the rick-thatcher, if he didn't do well what he undertook to do.

- George Eliot99

◆ Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.

- Wally Lamb99

◆ This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.

- Cormac McCarthy99