“I am proud to work with the fossil fuel industry. I think it has historically done a horrible job of educating the public and I think my ideas will help it make a better case for freedom.” ThinkingIdeasDoneHelpingJobsCasesIndustryProudHorribleFuelFossilsFossil FuelHorrible Jobs Author:Alex Epstein
“Providing clean, efficient solar/electric generators to industries such as oil companies, spanning from film and event production, construction, disaster relief, agriculture, forestry, and nonprofit organizations. We're literally helping green oil companies, helping them find ways to pollute less while creating jobs. When I look at the breadth of positive impact these technologies can have, I truly get excited. Imagine a generator where ZERO fuel is used!” WayLooksHelpingJobsFilmUsedCompanyTechnologyImagineEventsIndustryCreatingOrganizationGreenImpactCleanProductionsExcitedOilDisasterFuelReliefZeroConstructionEfficientElectricProvidingAgricultureBreadthPositive ImpactNonprofitsOil CompaniesGeneratorCreating JobsDisaster Relief Author:Ian Somerhalder
“I think that people should find a niche that will work. I have friends growing up who sat around playing video games for hours after school, and now they work for the video game industry. People need to find a niche so it doesn't feel like a job anymore. When I'm working on the "Lights Out" brand, it's fun. It's not work.” PeopleThinkingNeedsFeelsShouldLightSchoolJobsGamesFunHoursGrowing UpGrowingIndustryVideoBrandsSatNicheAfter SchoolPlaying Video GamesFriends Growing Up Author:Shawne Merriman
“While waiting for my visa, I got a job in the music industry, which was so exciting, it changed my life and stopped me moving.” JobsMovingWaitingChangedIndustryExcitingMusic IndustryChanged My LifeVisa Author:Nicki Chapman
“I applied for three jobs in record companies and was offered all of them. I took the most glamorous-sounding job in the promotions department and it began my love affair with the music industry.” JobsThreeCompanyRecordsIndustryAffairDepartmentPromotionGlamorousLove AffairMusic IndustryRecord Companies Author:Nicki Chapman
“I just had to learn to look at it as a job, as opposed to identifying myself as a model and thinking of myself as a part of this industry.” ThinkingLooksJobsIndustryModelsIdentifying Author:Daria Werbowy
“I had difficulty being friends with women who hadn't worked in either the sex or beauty industries. I felt like other women sometimes overvalued beauty and sexuality, when in actuality, they're just parts of a job.” SometimesJobsSexFeltIndustryDifficultySexualityActualityBeauty Industry Author:Molly Crabapple
“Often, there is a job - say, for a voiceover or an appearance - and you think: 'Blimey!' From the outside it would seem like you are being paid a lot for a short amount of your time. It would be inappropriate to share how much they pay, but in the industry we call it 'doing a bank raid'. Unfortunately, those jobs do not happen every week.” ThinkingSeemsHappensWould BeJobsPayWeekShareLike YouIndustryAmountPaidAppearanceInappropriate Author:Anthea Turner
“The single biggest barrier to effective leadership is, in my view, the leadership industry itself. Instead of telling people the skills and behaviors they need to be effective in getting things done, we tell them almost the opposite - blandishments about how we wish people would be, and how we wish workplaces were. That information is worse than useless as, to the extent people believe it, they often wind up losing their jobs.” PeopleNeedsBelieveDoneWould BeJobsWishViewsInformationWindIndustrySkillsBehaviorLosingOppositesUselessBarriersWorkplaceThings DoneEffective LeadershipGetting Things Done Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer
“My policy on energy is... to make America the largest energy producer in the world. I think we can get there, in 10 or 15 years. That will bring back manufacturing of certain high-energy intensive industries. It'll bring back jobs. It'll create a surprising economic revitalization of this country.” ThinkingYearsCountryJobsCertainEnergyEconomicIndustrySurprisingManufacturingHigh EnergyRevitalization Author:Mitt Romney
“If you depend on a single industry, if you don't continuously upgrade it, if that industry is not producing real wealth, if it's simply shuffling paper from here to here in a very efficient manner sometimes, that's not enough and that's not where you begin to get the rest of your jobs.” IfsRealSometimesEnoughJobsWealthDependsIndustryPaperEfficientShufflingReal Wealth Author:Juan Enriquez
“I think that the Detroit auto industry is important to the United States. It's important for hundreds of thousands of Americans who have their jobs as a result.” ThinkingImportantStatesJobsUnitedResultsUnited StatesIndustryDetroitAuto Industry Author:John Boehner
“Annual earnings in the fast-food industry are well below the income needed for self-sufficiency, and fast-food industry jobs are also much less likely than other jobs to provide health benefits.” WellsSelfJobsIndustryNeededBenefitsIncomeEarningAnnualsFast FoodSelf SufficiencySufficiencyFood IndustryHealth Benefits Author:David Rolf
“When I see someone either break free from the grips of the food industry, leave their job for something more meaningful, or start to be in a relationship that really helps them become who they're supposed to be, that inspires me.” HelpingJobsBreakInspireIndustryMeaningfulSupposed To BeFood Industry Author:Vani Hari
“You're not insulting my character. Being a woman, especially in this business, it's so thrilling to get to do that. It's so rare, especially right now the way the film industry is. If you're a girl, the part you get to play these days...because there's so many less movies made...in a good movie, if there's a girl in it, there might be a handful of scenes, and your job is to be supportive to the guy who's messed up. Be the loving rock at home, or be the good mom, or be the attractive person.” IfsWayPersonsMadePlayCharacterHomeMightJobsFilmGuyGirlRocksMomIndustryRight NowSceneThese DaysAttractiveSupportiveThrillingHandfulInsultingBeing A WomanGood MovieFilm IndustryMessed UpGood Mom Author:Keri Russell
“With living wage jobs, basically 20 million of them to help jump-start a sustainable and healthy economy, with an insured, just transition, for example, for workers in both the fossil fuel and in the weapons industry, because they all need to transition to sustainable forms of production. This is also our answer to the departure of manufacturing jobs and good jobs by creating the manufacturing base here for clean renewable energy and the efficiency systems and public transportation to put these workers to work in jobs that are actually good for them.” NeedsHelpingJobsFormEnergyAnswersMillionsEconomyExampleIndustryHealthyCreatingWeaponsCleanWorkersProductionsFuelTransitionEfficiencyGood JobFossilsManufacturingTransportationFossil FuelDepartureRenewable EnergyLiving WagePublic Transportation Author:Jill Stein
“Today, there's more that can and should be done that really has to come from the industry itself, and how we can strengthen our economy, create more jobs at a time where that's increasingly challenging, to get back to Teddy Roosevelt's square deal. And I really believe that America and all of you are up to that job.” ShouldBelieveDoneTodayJobsAmericaChallengesDealsEconomyIndustryGet BackSquaresTeddy Author:Hillary Clinton
“There are 80,000 jobs in the wind energy industry right now. And you can quadruple that number, if you have the right policy in place to promote clean energy.” IfsJobsEnergyNumbersPolicyWindIndustryRight NowCleanClean EnergyWind EnergyEnergy Industry Author:Van Jones
“There are about 46,000 jobs supported by the solar industry right now. That's fewer than it should be, too. And you have a whole other set of jobs in energy-efficiency in buildings and in creating the "Smart Grid," as we call it.” ShouldWholeJobsEnergyBuildingIndustryRight NowCreatingSmartFewerEfficiencyGridsEnergy Efficiency Author:Van Jones
“This is my job, my livelihood: the health and the well-being of the publishing industry. We're all responsible for this.” WellsJobsIndustryResponsibleWell BeingPublishingLivelihoodPublishing Industry Author:Ann Patchett
“We know that things like energy independence, getting off oil, getting out of the Middle East, and creating jobs and economic development in the new clean energy industries of the future are much higher priorities for most voters than capping carbon emissions or taxing dirty energy sources. So why not redefine our agenda as the solution to those problems?” KnowsProblemJobsEnergyEconomicMiddleSourceDevelopmentIndustryHigherCreatingSolutionsIndependenceCleanOilEastPrioritiesDirtyAgendasWhy NotVotersMiddle EastCarbonEmissionsEconomic DevelopmentClean EnergyEnergy SourcesCarbon EmissionsCreating JobsEnergy IndependenceEnergy Industry Author:Ted Nordhaus
“Making big investments to get off oil, making clean energy alternatives widely available and cheap, and creating millions of new jobs in clean energy industries is a winner with American voters and can carry the whole suite of policies that we need to address global warming.” NeedsWholeBigsJobsEnergyMillionsPolicyIndustryCreatingCleanInvestmentAvailableOilAlternativesWinnerGlobal WarmingAddressesVotersNew JobClean EnergyAmerican VotersEnergy Industry Author:Ted Nordhaus
“For me, I'm not in an industry where I'm starving. I'm so lucky to have this job, I'm compensated for my work in an incredible way. But what I do ask is when I join a production I want to make sure that the male actor isn't making four times my salary, which has been true, or seven times my salary. And if that's true you go, you know what, I don't need this job. It's not really asking for more - it's asking for something that is respectable and equal to the male actor and you have to go, why are women being valued less?” IfsKnowsWayWantNeedsHas BeensJobsActorsAsksFourIndustryLuckyEqualAskingSevenMalesIncrediblesProductionsSalaryStarvingRespectableSo LuckyTrue You Author:Jessica Chastain
“If the white man can come here uneducated and as an immigrant, and within 10 or 15 years set up an industry that provides job opportunities and educational opportunities for black people, then if the black man, the black leadership, who has access to all of this money and has all of these degrees today, can't use his talent and his know-how to set up business opportunities, job opportunities, housing opportunities for the black people the same as the white leaders have done for white people, then these black leaders need to get off the boat.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenNeedsYearsDoneUseTodayJobsOpportunityBlackWhiteLeaderKnow HowTalentIndustryDegreesEducationalAccessBoatImmigrantsBlack PeopleWhite ManHousingUneducatedBusiness OpportunityJob Opportunities Author:Malcolm X
“It was amazing how much their [Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Shauna Robertson] process seemed familiar to me, translating that into the work that I had done and giving actors a lot of freedom and doing a lot of improvisation and a total respect and collaboration with all the department heads and all the crews, and just really making it an enjoyable industry rather than just clocking in and doing a job which a lot of movies are.” GivingDoneJobsActorsProcessIndustryFamiliarDepartmentCollaborationTranslateCrewEnjoyableImprovisation Author:Seth Rogen