Small Jobs Quotes:

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

- Dale Carnegie

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Stay Strong, Just Stay Strong, Inspirational Perseverance

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

- Henry Ford

source: Quoted in Reader's Digest, Mar. 1934

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Time, Dividing, Work Done

Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Running, Home, Better Jobs, Shocking

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

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging, Job Satisfaction, Motivational Job

We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Ideas, Shameless, Stealing, Different Jobs, Great Artist

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

- Pablo Picasso

topic: Creativity, Artist, Design, Copycats, Good Design

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

- Steve Jobs

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

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Interesting Life, Inner Voice

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspiring, Moving, Inspiration, Inspiring Change, Design Work

The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their products.

- Steve Jobs

source: "Triumph of the Nerds", June 12, 1996.

topic: Inspirational, Mean, Technology, Best Design, Original Ideas

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Life, Trust, Future Success, Innovation And Leadership

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspiring, Business, Memorable, Veneer, Inspiring Business

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Last Day, Innovation Inspiration

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Best Success, Social Innovation

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Death, People, Someone Who Is Dying, Meaningful Death

Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

- Steve Jobs

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

topic: Inspirational, Life, Graduation, Job Growth, Inner Life

Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?

- Steve Jobs

topic: Business, Humorous, Pirate, Funny Business, Small Jobs

Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

- Walter Isaacson

source: Walter Isaacson (2011). “Walter Isaacson Great Innovators e-book boxed set: Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

topic: Inspirational, Artist, Ideas, Different Jobs, Great Artist

As an undergraduate I held many small jobs as an illustrator.

- Robert T. Bakker

topic: Jobs, Undergraduate, Small Jobs

I would take up any small job on the sets, just so that I could hang around with the hope of getting noticed.

- Christine Lahti

topic: Jobs, Small Jobs

Many upscale American parents somehow think jobs like their own are part of the nation's natural order. They are not. In Europe, they have already discovered that, and many there have accepted the new small-growth, small-jobs reality. Will we?

- Daniel Henninger

topic: Jobs, Reality, Thinking, Natural Order, Small Jobs