8,413 Quotes About Jobs

  • Author Walter Benjamin
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    There's something about approaching 50 that's very liberating. Political struggle has always been a 24-hour-a-day job for me. I felt I could never take time out for myself. Now I feel I owe it to myself to develop in ways I've been putting off all my life.

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  • Author Warren Beatty
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    Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.

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  • Author Warren Buffett
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    The latter qualification brings to mind a fellow who applied for a job and stated he had twenty years of experience-which was corrected by a former employer to read "one year's experience-twenty times.

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  • Author Warren Buffett
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    Take the job you would take if you were independently wealthy. You're going to do well at it.

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  • Author Warren Buffett
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    You ought to be able to explain why you’re taking the job you’re taking, why you’re making the investment you’re making, or whatever it may be. And if it can’t stand applying pencil to paper, you’d better think it through some more. And if you can’t write an intelligent answer to those questions, don’t do it.

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  • Author Warren G. Bennis
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    What job is worth the enormous psychic cost of following a leader who values loyalty in the narrowest sense.

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