Job Security Quotes

“AI is taking over areas that we previously thought were too important to entrust to machines.”
― Roger Spitz, The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume III - Beta Your Life: Existence in a Disruptive World

“Because by definition they lack any such sense of mutuality or wholeness, our specializations subsist on conflict with one another. The rule is never to cooperate, but rather to follow one's own interest as far as possible. Checks and balances are all applied externally, by opposition, never by self-restraint. Labor, management, the military, the government, etc., never forbear until their excesses arouse enough opposition to force them to do so. The good of the whole of Creation, the world and all its creatures together, is never a consideration because it is never thought of; our culture now simply lacks the means for thinking of it.

It is for this reason that none of our basic problems is ever solved. Indeed, it is for this reason that our basic problems are getting worse. The specialists are profiting too well from the symptoms, evidently, to be concerned about cures -- just as the myth of imminent cure (by some 'breakthrough' of science or technology) is so lucrative and all-justifying as to foreclose any possibility of an interest in prevention. The problems thus become the stock in trade of specialists. The so-called professions survive by endlessly "processing" and talking about problems that they have neither the will nor the competence to solve. The doctor who is interested in disease but not in health is clearly in the same category with the conservationist who invests in the destruction of what he otherwise intends to preserve. The both have the comfort of 'job security,' but at the cost of ultimate futility.

... This has become, to some extent at least, an argument against institutional solutions. Such solutions necessarily fail to solve the problems to which they are addressed because, by definition, the cannot consider the real causes. The only real, practical, hope-giving way to remedy the fragmentation that is the disease of the modern spirit is a small and humble way -- a way that a government or agency or organization or institution will never think of, though a person may think of it: one must begin in one's own life the private solutions that can only in turn become public solutions.”
― Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

“The future is closer than you think. You can pay attention now or watch the transformation happen right in front of your eyes”
― Nicky Verd, Disrupt Yourself Or Be Disrupted

“Getting fired, despite sometimes coming as a surprise and leaving you scrambling to recover, is often a godsend. Most people aren’t lucky enough to get fired and die a slow spiritual death over 30-40 years of tolerating the mediocre.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“A shift in mindset is required to thrive in the current era and this cannot be achieve at an academic level, social latitude or political sphere but at a personal level.”
― Nicky Verd, Disrupt Yourself Or Be Disrupted

“Think like A.I. and decide at algorithmic speed.

said no mentor, yet.”
― Clyde Desouza, Maya

“There is no such thing as job security. Winning or losing is now happening faster than ever before.”
― Nicky Verd, Disrupt Yourself Or Be Disrupted

“All right now, you’ve got a good job. Keep your nose clean and
you’ve got the security the rest of your life.”
Security? You could get security in jail. Three squares and no rent
to pay, no utilities, no income tax, no child support. No license plate
fees. No traffic tickets. No drunk driving raps. No losses at the race
track. Free medical attention. Comradeship with those with similar
interests. Church. Roundeye. Free burial.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

“This isn’t like a job we have while we go to college. This is what we like — feed ourselves with.”
― Annie Baker

“Whenever a leader tries to build job security by making himself indispensable to the organization, he in fact does the organization a disservice. Job security is too often based on someone’s insecurity.”
― Andy Stanley, Seven Practices of Effective Ministry

“Many at the State Department think its their job, not the Army's, to develop cultural and regional expertise and relationships. In such quarters, the RAF concept looks less like an innovative approach to global risk management than yet another military effort to replace diplomats with soldiers.”
― Rosa Brooks, How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon

“You can’t guarantee receiving a monthly income from your job”
― George Choy, RETIRE NOW! Your Blueprint to Financial Freedom Through Property

“Premeditatio malorum is latin for premeditation of evils. Basically, if you’re wise, you should consider all the bad things that could happen. This is not an act of pessimism or negativity; it’s an act of preparation and confidence in your ability to face future challenges. Premeditatio malorum pushes you to new challenges out of necessity. Through challenges, strife, and obstacles – ones you may have avoided or never found had you stayed in your comfort zone – you grow. This builds job security and job options. When you have both job security and job options, you’re happier. Always.”
― Evan Thomsen

“A pandemic shutting down airports and crushing the travel and hospitality industry is a fact – were you prepared or not? You suddenly waking up and realizing that you hate your job is an opinion – were you prepared or not? The nature of the problem is different. The impact on you is not. In both cases, you need an exit strategy and options. You may say that one of these is worse than the other, or easier to deal with than the other. And that may be true. But you don’t want to be negatively impacted by EITHER for any longer than is absolutely necessary.”
― Evan Thomsen

“Assume your job will be gone in five years.”
― Evan Thomsen, Don’t Chase The Dream Job, Build It: The unconventional guide to inventing your career and getting any job you want

“As a working actor, you’re always being asked when it was that you finally knew you’d “made it.” Most actors I know, myself included, respond with something resembling “never.” Acting is such a precarious profession that most of us wisely never relax, never stop watching our backs, never feel we have true job security. Even if the evidence is to the contrary, most of us feel we aren’t yet safe. If necessary, I could pick up a tray tomorrow and take your order—I remember those years like no time has passed. I never take this career for granted. There are far more actors who worked for a while and disappeared than there are actors who’ve stuck around for decades.”
― Lauren Graham, Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls

“If you truly want job security, don’t count on others, count on yourself.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Leadership by Example: Be a role model who inspires greatness in others