41 quotes found
“Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.”
“Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits.”
“Most of the men sitting in first class on an airplane have really boring jobs.”
“My brother-in-law had to give up his last job because of illness. His boss became sick of him.”
“Vice president: That's the title given to a corporate manager instead of a raise.”
“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is very important.”
“It's amazing how important your job is when you want the day off - and how unimportant it is when you want a raise.”
“Experience is the one thing you have plenty of when you're too old to get the job.”
“Downsizing means you're about to become the guest of honor at a going-away party.”
“Professional life is like a fire hydrant. You spend all of your time putting out fires and standing your ground against the big dogs.”
“I left journalism because I met too many interesting people at an uninteresting salary.”
“The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid stable business.”
“I'm a writer. I write checks. They're not very good.”
“It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.”
“I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead Spenser is dead so is Milton so is Shakespeare and I'm not feeling...”
“Ask a writer what he thinks about critics and the answer you get is similar to what you get when you ask a lamppost how he feels about dogs.”
“America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.”
“A specialist is a person who knows very much about very little and continues to learn more and more about less and less until eventually he knows practically everything about almost nothing at all.”
“Expert: An ordinary man away from home giving advice.”
“She used to be a schoolteacher but she has no class now.”
