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  • The bigger the organization, the fewer the jobs worth doing.

    - SirAntony Rupert Jay
      Management and Machiavelli.

  • They were always†getting more credit than they deserved, more sorrow than they could bear, climbing into jobs before they were ready and failing just when they were succeeding.

    -James B(arrett) Reston
      Of John F, Robert F and Edward M Kennedy. Deadline.

  •    No woman in my time will be Prime Minister or Chancellor of the Exchequer or Foreign Secretarynot the top jobs. Anyway, I would not want to be Prime Minister; you have to give yourself100 per cent.

    - Margaret HildaThatcher, Baroness Thatcher
      On her appointment as a junior Education Minister, in the SundayTelegraph, 26 Oct.

  • Mine is one of the jobs that, if you want it, you will never get itand if you're seen to want it you will certainly never get it.

    - (Bruce) Bernard Weatherill, Baron Weatherill
      In The House Magazine, Jan.

  • Iguessthere's alwaysgoing to be jobsthat pay morethan others, and I suppose I have one of those.

    -Venus Williams
      In the Observer, 9 Jun.

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