Job Quotes - Page 18

Use time to be a seeker of the Kingdom

I was a really good waitress. Waitressing takes a certain gusto. You need a good memory and an ability to connect with people fast. You have to learn how to treat the kitchen as well as you treat the customers. You have to figure out which crazy people to listen to and which crazy people to ignore. I loved waiting tables because when you cashed out at the end of the night your job was truly over. You wiped down your section and paid out your busboy and you knew your work was done.

Do not get a job for a living. Rather, get work

You can multiply your life through work, not jobs

You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well, and not be always saying, There’s this and there’s that—if I had this or that to do, I might make something of it. No matter what a man is—I wouldn’t give twopence for him’— here Caleb’s mouth looked bitter, and he snapped his fingers— ‘whether he was the prime minister or the rick-thatcher, if he didn’t do well what he undertook to do.

You wander. You work nearly every job known to man, it seems, only to arrive at the wonderings of philosophy.

You talk to leadership in China, and THEY are all the engineers. They get what is going on immediately. The Americans don't because they're all lawyers.

Perfect study is the key to being effective in the land of your calling

Retirement is the menopause of an employee’s mind and hands.

Dedicate time to yourself and do things that help you grow

Don’t be too rigid, always be ready and eager to make new discoveries