Real Jobs Quotes:

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Thinking, Track, Innovation And Business, Wrong Job

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Yoga, Passion, Innovation And Business, Innovation And Leadership

It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

- Steve Jobs

source: "Fortune" Magazine, November 9, 1998.

topic: Best Job, People, Innovation, Managing People, Innovation And Business

Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Change, Work, Life Changing, Way In Life, Innovation And Business

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Daily Work, Way In Life

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Life, Graduation, Way In Life, Innovation And Business

Believe that things will work out... follow your intuition and curiosity... trust your heart even when it leads you off the well-worn path... You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future... The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it... Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Believe, Heart, Way In Life, Innovation And Business

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

- Steve Jobs

source: "Fortune" Magazine, November 9, 1998.

topic: Inspirational, Time, Money, Managing People, Innovation And Business

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Night, Thinking, Innovation And Business, Innovation And Leadership

It's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that really matter.

- Scott Belsky

topic: Matter, Saying No, Wrong Job, Real Jobs

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Success, Creativity, Stanford University, Lightness

I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I'm not there, but I'll always come back.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Years, Apples, May, Real Jobs, Predicting The Future

The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient.

- Steve Jobs

source: "The Seed of Apple's Innovation". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. October 12, 2004.

topic: Business, Mean, Technology, Real Jobs

The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Cutting, Apples, Way, Real Jobs, Apple Inc

When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Simple, People, Challenges, Peeling An Onion, Elegant Solutions

As a songwriter, you're never off - for me, anyway. There's a certain mentality of people that decide, "Oh, we're going to try to write songs from this time of the day to this time of the day." Almost treat it like a real job. I can't do that. I've never been able to write songs like that. You never know when something creative is going to hit you, or emotion or whatever. You can take it, and turn it into something that makes somebody feel something. I love that about my job.

- Kenny Chesney

topic: Song, Jobs, Real, Real Jobs

No matter what the job description says, your real job is to make the boss look good.

- Lois Wyse

source: Lois Wyse (1984). “The Six-Figure Woman and How to Be One”, Fawcett Books

topic: Jobs, Real, Work, Real Jobs

I always assumed that at some point I would have to quit making jokes, get a real job and do something meaningful and productive that would actually benefit society. Fortunately this never happened.

- Dave Barry

topic: Meaningful, Jobs, Real, Real Jobs

I wouldn't be an actor if it weren't for the English teacher I had my junior year in high school. She's the one who told me I could be an actor. I had never met an actor, I had never seen a real play, only high school plays. I didn't know actors were real, that it was a real job.

- Julianne Moore

topic: Teacher, Jobs, Real, English Teacher, Real Jobs

Acting becomes my real job, writing becomes my second job, and then when I turn 50, I think I'm going to open up an interior decorating company.

- Ester Dean

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Jobs, Real, Writing, Interior Decorating, Decorating

I never had an interest in being a mayor ’cause that’s a real job. You have to produce. That’s why I was able to be a senator for 36 years.

- Joe Biden

source: "Joe Biden: If We Lose Election, It Could Be To ‘Barrage Of Super PAC Money’" by Jennifer Bendery, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2012.

topic: Jobs, Real, Years, Real Jobs

Everybody was telling me to sit my ***** down. Everybody was telling me to get a real job. Everybody was asking me, "What are you doing? You're ruining your life. You're embarrassing your family." That's all I got. So you can't listen to that. You have to listen to yourself.

- Leslie Jones

topic: Jobs, Real, Asking, Real Jobs

My mum still wonders when I'll get a real job. These are the questions we discuss at our family dinners.

- Aron Flam

source: Source: www.vice.com

topic: Jobs, Real, Dinner, Real Jobs, Family Dinner

My parents paid me small amounts for cleaning my room or cleaning the dishes and stuff, but I never really had a real job before I started on my professional tennis career.

- Caroline Wozniacki

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Jobs, Real, Careers, Real Jobs

There's just no real job security when you're shooting a show about an apocalypse and anybody could die at any time.

- Melissa McBride

source: "Melissa McBride On 'The Walking Dead' Shocker". Interview with Jolie Lash, www.accesshollywood.com. March 17, 2014.

topic: Jobs, Real, Shooting, Real Jobs

There's only 5 real jobs in the world. Teacher, fireman, policeman, doctor and somebody who is in the armed service. If you don't have one of those 5 jobs, you shouldn't take your life that serious.

- Charles Barkley

topic: Teacher, Jobs, Real, Real Jobs, Armed Services

I started out with comedy in college, but had my major in Recreation Administration - which meant I wasn't going to get a real job - so I started doing a little standup.

- Carlos Alazraqui

source: Interview with Jason Zingale, www.bullz-eye.com. July 11, 2006.

topic: Jobs, Real, College, Real Jobs

For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

- Sylvia Plath

topic: Jobs, Real, Writing, Evasion, Real Jobs

I was working in a church in Florida as a youth intern, which means I really didn't do much other than staple stuff. I'm from Dallas, Texas, and every time my grandmother would call-she would call me any time of the day-I'd be home answering the phone. She was like, "What do you do all day?" and sarcastically I would say, "Well, I'm trying to chalk off the next year to spend time finding a band name." And she said, "Well mercy me, why don't you get a real job?" I thought, "Wait a minute. That's the perfect name." That kind of freed up my year but that's where the name came from.

- Bart Millard

topic: Jobs, Real, Home, Dallas Texas, Real Jobs

That first company I started made a lot of money for the venture capitalists - nearly $30 million - but next to nothing for the founders. The companies I started after that varied between failures and mediocre successes. But at no point did I ever consider getting a 'real job.' That felt like a black and white world, and I wanted Technicolor.

- Michael Arrington

topic: Real Jobs, Venture Capitalists

I conducted a bunch of interviews for Interview magazine. They actually paid me. I think I was probably 18 or 19. I was in college and I remember feeling, like, "Wow." I had a real job, and they paid me money, and it was exciting.

- Jodie Foster

source: "The Legend: Jodie Foster". Interview with Saoirse Ronan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

topic: Jobs, Real, College, Real Jobs

I never had a real job. I started acting in high school, and then I started working. So, I never got to have that experience.

- Zoe Kravitz

source: "Zoë Kravitz–Krazy about Kravitz!". Interview with Kam Williams, www.philasun.com. May 15, 2015.

topic: Jobs, Real, School, Real Jobs

I'm very happy and being raised Catholic I assume it will end tomorrow. The rug will be pulled out from under me and someone will say, now go to your real job, shoveling poop somewhere.

- Joel McHale

source: "Tribute talks to Spy Kids star Joel McHale". Interview with Alexandra Heilbron, www.tribute.ca. August 8, 2011.

topic: Real Jobs

I don't really know. I think the first test is when you're very little and you fart, and you laugh at it and so do your friends and family. I knew before I was funny I was very annoying so I have that covered. I think it was because I was not very good in school I used humor as a defense mechanism. When I started doing plays and stuff at school I decided that I was going to keep doing it until someone tells me to stop and get a real job.

- Joel McHale

source: "Tribute talks to Spy Kids star Joel McHale". Interview with Alexandra Heilbron, www.tribute.ca. August 8, 2011.

topic: Defense Mechanisms, Real Jobs

I'm just glad that on a budget like this I don't have to make any of those hard decisions because I feel it must be a real job to direct this, as there's so much going on.

- Matt Lucas

source: Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

topic: Jobs, Real, Decision, Real Jobs, Hard Decision

Both of my parents were incredibly supportive of me being in any arts, because they were both in the arts. They weren't the typical story of, "Oh, get a real job. You need to make money." They basically said, "Yup, be an artist. You'll be broke your whole life but you'll be happy."

- Aya Cash

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Art, Jobs, Real, Real Jobs

To me, there's only 5 real jobs in America: Police Officers, Teachers, Firefighters, Doctors, and the Military Service.

- Charles Barkley

topic: Teacher, Jobs, Military, Jobs In America, Military Service

I feel as if you're saying that DJ is not a real job.

- Jack Black

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Jobs, Real, Feels, Djs, Real Jobs

They would send me notes on what's going on, and we would pitch in and talk about what we wanted to talk about on the show. I just really did my homework. It was more like a real job for me. Doing this talk show was like, "Wow, this is what they do?!" I can't even imagine doing it every day.

- Tameka Cottle

topic: Jobs, Real, Wow, Real Jobs

I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.

- Harlan Coben

topic: Jobs, Real, Inspiration, Perspiration, Real Jobs

I knew I wanted to be an actor. I just kept saying, "Until somebody tells me to stop, until I have to go get a real job, and until I'm practically homeless, I'm not gonna get one."

- Joel McHale

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Jobs, Real, Actors, Real Jobs

President Obama is like a lost man who refuses to ask for directions. That's because he has never worked in the real world with people who create real jobs. He operates on theories and an ideology that is incapable of achieving his goals.

- Cal Thomas

topic: Jobs, Real, Men, Real Jobs

It's time for the wealthy to pay their fair share before the middle class becomes the forgotten class.- And it's time for the banks to give back what they were given. There are those in politics, particularly those on the conservative side, who can't get enough of telling people that the wealthy one per cent must not be taxed because doing so kills jobs. The real job-killers are corporate greed and political expediency. It's time for working people in Maine and all across the country to take back the American dream.

- Stephen King

topic: Dream, Country, Jobs, Fair Share, Corporate Greed

Young people are in despair. They want a job, a real job, and we as society are guilty of not offering it.

- Maurice Levy

topic: Jobs, Real, Offering, Real Jobs

Middle names are kind of like vice presidents: It's a fine distinction and certainly an honor, but you're never not aware that someone else got the real job.

- Paul Reiser

topic: Jobs, Real, Names, Real Jobs