“A housewife deserves to be honored as much as a woman who earns her living in the marketplace. I consider bringing up children a responsible job. In fact, being a good housewife seems to me a much tougher job than going to the office and getting paid for it.” ChildrenFactsSeemsJobsOfficeDeservePaidResponsibleHonoredMarketplaceHousewife Author:Betty Ford
“Many managers feel, somewhat cynically, that people are being paid to do their jobs and that's that. This attitude reflects an insensitivity to people that is a trademark of many hockey-style managers.” PeopleFeelsJobsAttitudeStylePaidManagersHockeyTrademarksInsensitivity Author:Phil Crosby
“I've done everything. I've sung, done records, plays... It just so happened my first professional job was as a dancer. I've done the whole shebang, darling. But dancing was my first professional engagement in 1974. I got paid for it, so that was it, my vocation. But my parents weren't keen. They wanted me to be an accountant in Italy. Or a lawyer. They were furious. I had to run away. I had to leave the country.” FirstsCountryDonePlayWholeRunningWantedJobsParentRecordsHappenedPaidDancingLawyerDancerEngagementRunning AwayVocationDarlingFuriousAccountants Author:Bruno Tonioli
“I won't even take jobs where you get paid to sit with a group of friends and party. That's never been my vibe.” JobsPartyGroupsPaidGroup Of Friends Author:Taryn Manning
“Every coach, every executive, every leader: They all know right from wrong. Even those Enron guys. When someone uncovers a scandal in their company, I don't think they can say, "I didn't know that was going on." They're just saying they're too dumb to do their job! And if they really are too dumb, then why are they getting paid millions of dollars to do it? They know what's going on.” IfsThinkingKnowsJobsGuyCompanyLeaderMillionsPaidDollarsCoachesDumbExecutivesScandalJust SayingEnronEnron Scandal Author:Bo Schembechler
“It is safe to say that the U.S. Congress is now run by paid staffers, not by people elected to do the job.” PeopleRunningJobsSafePaidCongress Author:Barry Goldwater
“The first time I ever intersected with the quote unquote industry or Hollywood or being given a paid job as a director all came because of the reputation I got coming out of Sundance as a veteran Sundance filmmaker.” FirstsJobsGivenIndustryDirectorsFirst TimeHollywoodPaidReputationFilmmakerComing OutVeteranSundance Author:Lynn Shelton
“To me, it's an assignment, and my job is to tell the story. To me, it's easy, and to me, it's what I'm paid to do and what I've dreamt about doing from day one. Sometimes people don't like the stories, but it is what it is. So to me, I absolutely feel like no matter, if I'm calling a game between my brothers or my parents, the facts are the facts. The story dictates itself to me, and I relay the message to the viewers as well as I possibly can. That's going to be my job whether it's the Warriors or anybody else.” PeopleIfsFeelsWellsSometimesMatterFactsStoriesJobsGamesEasyParentBrotherCallingMessagesPaidWarriorMy BrotherViewersAssignmentsIt Is What It IsRelays Author:Mark Jackson
“I like most everything about my various jobs. The bottom line is I'm really fortunate to get paid to cover sports.” JobsSportsLinesPaidBottomVariousFortunateBottom Line Author:Doug Sherman
“Every single thing I`ve done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young people are able to go to college and get good job training, to what we`re pushing now in terms of sick paid leave,everything I do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal.” PeopleHas BeensDoneCareAbleJobsYoungTermDealsClassMiddleCollegeTrainingFairsSickPaidRaisesFocusedMiddle ClassPushingMinimumGood JobAffordableMinimum WageAffordable Care ActJob Training Author:Barack Obama
“Show me a chief executive who’s on five boards and who lends his or her name, prestige and time to 15 community activities — and I’ll show you a company that’s underperforming. A chief executive is paid to run the company. That’s the CEO’s job.” ShowsRunningJobsNamesCommunityCompanyFiveActivityPaidChiefsBoardsExecutivesShow MeCeoPrestigeChief Executives Author:Albert J. Dunlap
“I was doing gigs to stay alive. I worked two or three jobs at a time, there were times when I stayed up for 36 hours straight. I slept in shopping mall parking lots. A stand-up gig paid $35; then I could eat for another few days until the next gig. Literally, I was performing to live.” TwoJobsThreeNextHoursAlivePaidPerformingShoppingGigsMallsParkingStaying AliveParking Lot Author:Dat Phan
“My idea of a good job would be to be paid really well to sit on my ass all day to look at pictures.” WellsLooksIdeasWould BeJobsPaidAssGood Job Author:Michael Lesy
“A salaried job trains us to be "right" all the time and induces an entitlement mentality. This is because we get paid the same amount no matter what work we are producing, and we begin to see this is fair and right, and we begin being trained to think we are right all the time. When we become salespeople and marketers, we have to leave all of that behind.” ThinkingMatterJobsBehindsAmountFairsPaidNo Matter WhatTrainMentalityEntitlementMarketersSalespeopleEntitlement Mentality Author:Eben Pagan
“The historical weight of gender inequality has tended to concentrate women in lower-paid jobs with fewer benefits and at the same time made them primarily responsible for care giving.” GivingMadeCareJobsBenefitsWeightPaidResponsibleHistoricalGenderInequalityFewerGender Inequality Author:Stephanie Coontz
“The children are being conditioned to think that the purpose of life is to get a good job. You get paid but you don't get satisfaction from your work.” ThinkingChildrenJobsLife IsPurposePaidSatisfactionPurpose Of LifeGood Job Author:Satish Kumar
“I am laying out a specific agenda that will make more progress, get more jobs with rising incomes, get us to universal health care coverage, get us to universal pre-k, paid family leave and the other elements of what I think will build a strong economy, that will ensure Americans keep making progress. That's what I'm offering and that's what I will do as president.” ThinkingCareJobsStrongPresidentEconomyProgressElementsUniversalPaidIncomeHealth CareRisingAgendasOfferingCoverageStrong EconomyUniversal Health Care Author:Hillary Clinton
“When I was 16 I got a school holiday job at Minton's pottery factory in Staffordshire, packing plates. For a month's work, I was paid £44. Everything I now know about the birds and the bees, I learnt there.” KnowsSchoolJobsMonthsBirdPaidHolidayFactoriesBeesPlatesPackingPottery Author:Anthea Turner
“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
“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.” ThinkingRealFeelingsJobsRememberCollegeExcitingPaidBunchMagazinesInterviewsWowReal Jobs Author:Jodie Foster
“I had to paint the picture that I was never scared, otherwise I couldn't do my job. But now, as an actor, I'm literally paid to look emotionally accessible.” LooksJobsActorsPaidPaintScared Author:Zoe Bell
“I've had well-paid jobs, but in comparison to what footballers earn, I've not earned serious money.” WellsJobsSeriousPaidComparisonFootballer Author:Simon Weston
“The free market hasn't done a very good job "figuring out" how to pay workers enough. If it was solely up to the market, the people with the least power would be paid pennies ... or less.” PeopleIfsDoneEnoughWould BeJobsPayPaidWorkersVery GoodGood JobFree MarketPennies Author:David Rolf
“Tipping generally changes depending on where you are in the world. In Britain you don't always have to tip, but I always make sure I do. I have a lot of respect for waiters and waitresses - it can't be an easy job and they often don't get paid huge amounts, so I think it's important to reward them and let them know if they are giving great service.” IfsThinkingKnowsWorldGivingImportantJobsEasyHugeAmountPaidRewardsBritainWhere You AreWaiterWaitressTippingGreat Service Author:Andy Murray
“There are times where you can't always get paid to do the things you really want to do. What really epitomizes your dream job is the job that pays you to do what you want to do.” WantDreamJobsPayPaidWhat You WantYour DreamsDream Job Author:Phil Keoghan
“I once had a young musician come to me and say that he wanted to be a professional musician. I asked him to write his list. When he came back to me, the three things in his life he most wanted were: to be paid for his music; to travel around the world; to meet new people. We came to the decision, after thinking really creatively, that if he got a job on a cruise ship, he would fulfill those goals.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWritingWantedJobsYoungThreeGoalDecisionMusicianPaidListsShipsAround The WorldThree ThingsCruiseMeeting New PeopleCruise ShipsMost Wanted Author:Phil Keoghan
“My father values talent. He recognizes real knowledge and skill when he finds it. He is color blind and gender neutral. He hires the best person for the job, period.” PersonsSaidRealJobsMotherValuesFatherCompanyTalentColorPeriodsSkillsFemalePaidBlindMalesGenderExecutivesBest PersonReal Knowledge Author:Ivanka Trump
“Many Americans are feeling, you know, shut out, shut down, the great recession hasn't ended for too many Americans, wages are flat, families are struggling, not enough new jobs, or new businesses are being created, and it's important that we all try to figure out what we're going to do, and that's what I've done my entire life, fighting for a higher minimum wage, or family leave, now paid family leave which I believe in, equal pay for equal work.” KnowsTryingBelieveImportantDoneEnoughFeelingsJobsFightingI BelievePayStruggleFiguresHigherEqualPaidI Believe InFlatsMinimumWagesRecessionsMinimum WageNew JobEqual PayNew BusinessGreat Recession Author:Hillary Clinton
“It was interesting; it's an interesting photographic problem [those demonstrations in the late Sixties]. But if I was doing it as a job, I think I'd have to get paid extra.” IfsThinkingProblemJobsInterestingLatePaidExtrasSixtyDemonstration Author:Garry Winogrand
“You don't do that while you're being paid by taxpayers to do a very difficult and full-time job, and you also do not bring Clinton Foundation interests into the domain of the secretary of state, and you do not give preferred access to your own personal clients.” GivingStatesJobsDifficultInterestPaidFoundationClintonAccessClientsSecretaryDomainTaxpayersFull Time Jobs Author:Jill Stein
“We need to invest in job training programs, especially those that include child care, transit stipends and paid apprenticeships and internships.” NeedsChildrenCareJobsTrainingProgramPaidApprenticeshipChild CareJob TrainingTraining ProgramsInternships Author:Van Jones
“I want to get paid for doing my job and whoever don't like it or whoever don't give me my just due then that's on them.” WantGivingJobsGive MePaidDues Author:Master P
“Some of us wake up in the morning and just wonder how it is any of us actually sustain a paid job.” JobsWonderMorningWake UpPaid Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“I ask you, how would you like your mom, your wife, your daughter to spend $100,000 to go to Harvard or some state school, and go out into the workplace, and you know she's great, and men are getting paid $200 per week more than her? Would that piss you off? What if you lost your job and you stay home crippled while she goes out, and she thinks she's going to get a good job, but someone male with the same level of experience and the same level of education gets paid more than her? You're going to get pissed. Until you walk a mile in someone else's shoes, I don't want to hear it.” IfsThinkingKnowsMenWantStatesHomeSchoolJobsAsksLostWalksLevelsWifeWeekLike YouMomDaughterPaidMalesShoesMilesWhat IfWorkplaceGood JobHarvardYour MomOur DaughterCrippledYour Daughter Author:Pam Grier
“I'm getting paid to tour and travel and I don't have to work a shitty job. And it's weird because you like start getting pissed off about that.” JobsPaidPissed Off Author:Mac DeMarco
“My mom said to me when I was a little kid, "You don't have to hate your job. Just because you see all these unhappy grown-ups doesn't mean you have to be one of them." She said, "Find something that you would do for free and find a way to get paid to do it." That's been my guiding principle.” WayMeanLittlesSaidKidsJobsHatePrinciplesMomPaidMy MomUnhappyHate YouLittle KidGuiding Principles Author:Jay Baruchel
“At 16, I got a part-time job selling double-glazing door to door. That was soul destroying but the worst part-time job I did was at university working on reception in a sexually transmitted disease clinic. Because no one else wanted to do it, they paid £8 an hour.” SoulWantedJobsHoursDoorsWorstDiseasePaidUniversitySellingDestroyingSexuallyReceptionClinicPart TimePart Time JobsSexually Transmitted Diseases Author:Kate Thornton
“Someone has to really like you to go out there and physically get your CD. Shout out to everybody who actually paid for the CD. A lot of people don't realize that's how we live, that's our job. When we people take music from us, that's just like taking food off of our table and it's not cool. It's a lot of blood, sweat and tears that goes into the music and those lyrics. To have people just go and steal it, it doesn't feel well.” PeopleFeelsWellsJobsRealizingBloodTearsLike YouPaidTablesStealingSweatCdsSweat And TearsShout OutBlood Sweat And TearsReally Like You Author:Ginuwine
“In a capitalist system, there's a principle that if you invest, especially in a long-term risky investment, if something comes out of it, you're supposed to get the profit. It doesn't happen in our system. The taxpayer paid for it and gets nothing - assumes all of the risk, gets zero. The money goes into the pockets of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, who are ripping off decades of work in the public sector.” IfsLongHappensJobsTermPrinciplesRiskPaidBillsAssumingInvestmentProfitDecadesLong TermPocketsGatesZeroCapitalistTaxpayersPublic Sector Author:Noam Chomsky
“The fact that traditionally 'female' jobs are paid less, that women end up working part-time because they're societally pressured into caring roles, and that having children has a negative impact on women's wages but a positive impact on men's, are all problems that should deeply concern us, not 'explanations' that can be happily accepted.” MenShouldChildrenEndsFactsProblemJobsRolesConcernNegativeFemalePaidImpactCaringAcceptedExplanationWagesHaving ChildrenPart TimePositive ImpactPressured Author:Laura Bates
“The size of the U.S. middle class has been shrinking. Wages have been stagnant. We don't have those factory jobs that paid a living wage and enabled a family to have a home where the wife did not have to work. But we sent our factories abroad and there is no likelihood of getting them back. Equally worrisome is that some managerial jobs and professional jobs (such as lawyers) which support middle class life are threatened by automation.” Has BeensHomeJobsClassSupportWifeMiddlePaidSizeLawyerMiddle ClassFactoriesThreatenedWagesStagnantLikelihoodShrinkingAutomationLiving WageMiddle Class Life Author:Philip Kotler
“Directing is probably the best job, but acting is really, really great. It's like a fun vacation that you get paid for.” JobsFunActingPaidVacationReally GreatBest Job Author:Bob Odenkirk
“I'm going to guess Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives, all want clean air to breathe and clean water to drink. I'm sure most people think women should be paid the same as men if they're doing the same job. I think we all want good schools for our kids. If we made that list, we actually are in agreement on more things.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenWantShouldMadeKidsSchoolJobsWaterAirDrinkRepublicanPaidCleanDemocratBreatheListsAgreementClean WaterClean AirGood School Author:Michael Moore
“Voting to go on strike is not a decision working people take lightly and is always accompanied by a strong sense of injustice at work. The impact of losing a day's pay is significant, not least for those in the lowest paid jobs who are already on the tightest budgets.” PeopleJobsStrongDecisionPayGoes OnLosingPaidImpactInjusticeStrikesSignificantBudgetsVotingLowest Author:Frances O'Grady
“The most experience I had in the criminology field is playing a thug as an actor. That was my first paid job. The police academy at the college was paying people to reenact the calls that potential cops would get. So I got to play thugs and people who were unruly.” PeopleFirstsPlayJobsActorsFieldsCollegePaidPoliceCopAcademyThugUnrulyCriminologyPolice Academy Author:Jeremy Renner
“In the four decades after World War II, manufacturing jobs paid more than other jobs for given skills. But that is much less true today. Increased international competition has forced American manufacturers to reduce costs. As a result, the pay premium for low-skilled workers in manufacturing is smaller than it once was.” WorldWarTodayJobsGivenResultsPayFourCostSkillsLowsPaidCompetitionWorkersInternationalDecadesWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiManufacturingPremiumSkilled Workers Author:Christina Romer
“The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice.” PeopleIfsKnowsWellsReasonBigsJobsTermSacrificePaidPublic ServiceBest Job Author:Malcolm Turnbull
“Consider in Washington, around the country today we are talking about balanced budgets, paying down our national debt, getting the economy going, defending ourselves, activist judges. Newt Gingrich did all those things when he was speaker. We got tax relief. We got balanced budgets. We got, you know, job creation. We paid down our national debt.” KnowsCountryTodayJobsTalkingEconomyCreationJudgingTaxesPaidDebtBudgetsReliefActivistSpeakersBalancedNational DebtNewtsJob CreationBalanced Budget Author:J. C. Watts
“It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.” MenTryingWellsStillsJobsResponsibilityShareFeminismModernPaidSpiteHouseholdTaking ResponsibilityChoresUnselfish Author:A. N. Wilson