All Quotes By Tag: Job
“When we get a job, we mortgage for salary”
“A job should be a temporary thing”
“Getting a job is not the only way to survive”
“While you are running after job, somebody is creating value for himself”
“While you are busy looking for a job, and trying to survive, someone else is multiplying his gifts and creating value in products and services”
“A lot of people today are seeking for jobs because of the people ahead of them whom they respect and envy”
“If your job is in control of your time, it is the job that is the owner of your life”
“If your time is under the control of your phone, your boss, parents, family, friends or job, that is what owns your life”
“Don’t just set out to do a good job, set out to do such a good job than the living, the dead or the unborn”
“There is a huge difference between work and job”
“Never measure success by other peoples standards. “Accomplishing YOUR OWN goals gives YOU the right to dictate YOUR own Success.”
“Learning from your customers is vital to your success. Even if you work in a back office or don’t deal directly with the public, you are serving someone in your job. You have a boss–and the boss is really your customer, right? You have to think of the people you work for (and if you have a job, your work for someone) as customers. Doing so gives you greater buy-in to the idea that your job is part of a bigger universe–it’s not just you toiling away on a computer making sure the numbers add up (or whatever it is you do). Someone, somewhere, is counting on you to hold up your end of the bargain and to do your job better, and you can learn from that person (or people).”
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“Devereaux is going with our pitch.”“Hey, that’s just great,” I said superperkily. “Wendell’s or mine?”“Yours.”“But you want to fire me. So fire me.”“We can’t fire you. They loved you. The head guy, Leonard Daly, thought you were, I quote, ‘agreat kid, very courageous’ and a natural to do a whispering campaign. He said you hadbelievability.”“That’s too bad.”“Why? You’re not quitting!”I thought about it. “Not if you don’t want me to. Do you?”Go on, say it.298 ♥elavanilla♥“No.”“No what?”“No, we don’t want you to quit.”“Ten grand more, two assistants, and charcoal suits. Take it or leave it.”Ariella swallowed. “Okay to the money, okay to the assistants, but I can’t green-light charcoalsuits. Formula Twelve is Brazilian, we need carnival colors.”“Charcoal suits or I’m gone.”“Orange.”“Charcoal.”“Orange.”“Charcoal.”“Okay, charcoal.”It was an interesting lesson in power. The only time you truly have it is when you genuinelydon’t care whether you have it or not.“Right,” I said. “I’m giving myself the rest of the day off.”
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“If the food that one ate the night before were somehow able to be seen and identified through one’s clothes throughout the day, millions of employees would each fast ten or so days before their payday.”
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