Joanna Coles Quotes

In America, people know there are always 10 people better than them who are after their job. In France, they know that too - but no one is going to get their job till they go to their grave.

Why should you stay in one place and one country if they're not offering you a job? It doesn't make sense!

When it comes to jobs, jobs are just like products in the sense that the free market operates and sees that somebody gets paid what they're worth.

If a lawyer, if a teacher, if a bus driver, if they're on $40,000 and they get offered a lot more to go somewhere else, what do you think they're going to do?

In L.A., everyone is competing for the next job, and in New York, it's pretty much the same thing: competing for a better job.

Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along.

A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.

I'm trying to solidify a long-term career, because I have no other skills and no other abilities.

I think people tend to apply where they think the greatest opportunities lie.

I mean, there are times when you aren't working, but still believe that work will come.

I have never been interested in specific roles.

The best measure of opportunity is access to a job.

I liked my old job better.

I think all of us want to work and get paid what we are worth.

No politician in a European sense is happy with 26 million people unemployed. Nobody can be happy with 6 to 9 million young people unemployed. You have to give them hope and confidence and a sense of inspiration that the European process is actually about people, not about bureaucracy.

I know that if I had got educated, I might have ended up as a call-center employee.

You look at my career, everywhere I went - Miami, Green Bay, Cleveland, Philly - they were always bringing in draft picks and former first-rounders and guys with free-agent deals to take my job.

I want to make it tough on the organization to not play me.

Jobs can change a lot without there being huge changes in employment rates.

The industry is big, and if I get an interesting role, I will take it up.

Most of us got jobs right after 'The Larry Sanders Show' because of 'The Larry Sanders Show.' I know that for a fact for myself.

President Bush is now focusing on jobs. I think the one job he's focusing most on is his own. The White House is now backtracking from its prediction that 2.6 million new jobs will be created in the U.S. this year. They say they were off by roughly 2.6 million jobs.

I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them.

I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.

My agents do not like my choice to work only in New York and Israel - it's not a good career move.