"I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful."
— Yann Martel

"I don't have much to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful."
— Yann Martel

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one."
— Mark Twain

""Clockers" asks--almost in passing, and there's a lot more to it than this--a pretty interesting question: if you choose to work for the minimum wage when everyone around you is pocketing thousands from drug deals, then what does that do to you, to your head and to your heart?

(Hornby's thoughts after reading "Clockers" by Richard Price)"
— Nick Hornby (The Polysyllabic Spree)

"The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
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— Hippocrates

"Being unemployed is the true test of who you really are:
from The Joy of Not Working"
— Ernie Zelinski (Career Success Without a Real Job: The Career Book for People Too Smart to Work in Corporations)