Jason Calacanis Quotes

A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.

Working for the Man seemed really good to me.

Well I guess I always look at other people who have maybe more traditional jobs and I think gosh their weeks are so much more stressful and busy than mine.

When you're trying to recruit a senior product manager from Hewlett-Packard, he doesn't want to work in a garage.

Once you have been hot and cold, you get real appreciative when you got a place to go every day with decent material, a paycheck to come in, and nice people to work with.

It starts this way: The worth of a job is not defined by what it allows you to do when you're not working.

Work is like the rest of life. The best parts are free.

I'd go anywhere to work, so long as it's worth it.

Don't make career choices on short-term financial gain. Job satisfaction and career enjoyment are far more important.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.

Life is just a set of experiences. As long as there are new experiences for me in a corporate job, I don't think I have to be an entrepreneur.

People really do think they have to choose between high stress and high reward jobs, and low stress and low reward jobs.

You would think that when someone accepts a position with a company, they would assume that their life will be better off because they have that job rather than a different one.

I don't care where I have to go for work. I just care that it's a good project. That's what I want.

I try not to and I don't think I ever have just jumped at any opportunity because a company wanted me. Just because there was money on the table doesn't mean that I took it.

I'm not looking for a paycheck.

There's ups and downs of any job. If you worked at the post office, there's ups and downs. You have your good days, and you have your bad days. If you're a housewife, you have your good days, and you have your bad days.

It's not about my career now. It's just about finding great work and having a good time.

Let's be honest - you work at a big company because it's comfortable. You don't have to work 80 hours per week, and you get paid, have nice benefits, and the family is all happy.

There is no social program in this country that is as important as a good job that pays well, that gives someone an opportunity to go to work, have some security, have benefits, and take care of their family and have a good life.

I don't believe in careers. I believe in work. I'm not interested in some 'big picture that would be really good for me'.

In talking to founder after founder; I've heard almost visceral reactions to working for companies, even very cool ones with great things to work on and lots of opportunity, like Facebook, Google, or consulting firms.

I've been lucky. I've never really had a job that I did that I didn't like.

There's a level of ease that comes with working in Australia that can be missed working in other places.