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Quotes About Jobs

I want to double down on our commitment to clean energy into New Mexico - that way we'll create good paying jobs by harnessing the power of our natural resources.
~ Deb Haaland
I make 98% of my collection in New York City and am generating jobs, so fashion isn't just frivolous for me. I understand levity about it. I also understand the depth of it.
~ Prabal Gurung
I think anyone that's running for office really should focus on the education for our youth, creating more jobs and employment, and really focusing on our next generation.
~ apl.de.ap
If you put this in the context of Detroit in '64 or '65, the economy was booming. Everybody had jobs and there was a whole nightclub culture where bands could work.
~ Wayne Kramer
I've been so lucky in all my jobs. I just, you know, when you hear nightmare stories of other jobs - which I'm sure are true, but I've been lucky and never experienced them.
~ Lucy Davis
We are watching the beginnings of the defiant self-assertion of a new generation of Americans, a generation who are looking forward to finishing their education with no jobs, no future, but still saddled with enormous and unforgivable debt.
~ David Graeber
In good old Colonial Dunsboro, masochism is a valuable job skill. It is in most jobs.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Taco Tuesday. Only in prisons and aboard submarines were people more excited about food than they were in office jobs.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Advertising has these people chassing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Predictable marketing requires an understanding of the circumstances in which customers buy or use things. Specifically, customers—people and companies—have "jobs" that arise regularly and need to get done. When customers become aware of a job that they need to get done in their lives, they look around for a product or service that they can "hire" to get the job done.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
Focus is scary—until you realize that it only means turning your back on markets you could never have anyway. Sharp focus on jobs that customers are trying to get done holds the promise of greatly improving the odds of success in new-product development.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
This is what processes aligned with customer jobs do: they shift complexity and nuisances from the customer to the vendor, leaving positive customer experiences and valuable progress in their place.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
Identifying disruptive footholds means connecting with specific jobs that people—your future customers—are trying to get done in their lives.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
the job to be done." The insight behind this way of thinking is that what causes us to buy a product or service is that we actually hire products to do jobs for us.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
New York isn't jobs, they reply, it's temperament. Most people are in New York because they need evidence—in large quantities—of human expressiveness; and they need it not now and then, but every day. That is what they need. Those who go off to the manageable cities can do without; those who come to New York cannot.
~ Vivian Gornick
If you have leaders with the right behavior, a culture that rewards execution, and a consistent system for getting the right people in the right jobs, the foundation is in place for operating and managing each of the core processes effectively.
~ Larry Bossidy
Man, teachers and cops and their part-time jobs. We do the heavy lifting for society, and we still need OT gigs. Nothing ever changes, does it?" Willoughby
~ Laura Lippman
The Army gives you $100 a month for three months. The men who didn't go seem to have all the good jobs and you just go back to where you came from and try to pick up where you left off. I went back to live with my parents in West Philly and back to Pearlstein's to pick up where I left off as an apprentice. But I couldn't handle being cooped up in a job after living outdoors all that time overseas.
~ Charles Brandt
Administrators don't believe in conspiracies. If they did, they'd have to resign their jobs. That
~ James Lee Burke
There isn't a lot of work in Australia. I think that's why everyone comes over to America to find jobs and pilots and things, because there's not enough work to justify staying there, unfortunately. Like, I wish there was. I would love to stay home and be working with my family around the corner, but the work just isn't there.
~ Phoebe Tonkin
I think everyone, all of us, are complicated people. We have jobs that require us to be a certain way. We all do. Unfortunately, our jobs overtake our personality, but that is the world. We live in a conundrum. You have to keep it together.
~ Paul Guilfoyle
I'm a working actress in Hollywood. You unfortunately don't get the pick of the litter when it comes to auditions and jobs.
~ Madelaine Petsch
The first question we would ask if aliens landed on this planet is not, 'What does this mean for the economy or jobs?' It would be, 'Are they friendly or unfriendly?'
~ Peter Thiel
Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want to be one of them.
~ Patrick deWitt