Romain Grosjean Quotes
I did almost every job in the bank. It was real life, waking up in the morning, putting on a suit and tie and then having to go to work.
Grosjean, Romain. "Romain Grosjean: 'I did almost every job in the bank'." The Guardian, Guardian News & Media, 15 Mar. 2012.
This is a fascinating historical quotation. It illustrates that each generation claims that the love of work and the work ethic is not what it used to be.
This quotation may be apocryphal and not real. We have not been able to find an eyewitness or even a quotation the citation of which gave a date or suggested how the quote was ever made public given that it passed between these two men. However it is so frequently quoted that we have decided to include it. A further argument in its favor is that it fits the circumstances of the time. FDR had given Hopkins a huge budget and told Hopkins to get the American people working again. Hopkins did not believe in payments to the able bodied unless worked and his programs created an astounding array of jobs for the unemployed to do ranging from fixing benches in parks to writing poetry about poverty. He spend more money than any human being in history and started and implemented a nationwide program at a pace that has never been matched, Incredibly, no one was ever able to find any dishonesty in the administration, but it took years for the information of exactly what had going on at the local level to filter back to Washington. So the quote is plausible factually. Style-wise Hopkins was brutally honest with Roosevelt and others so well might have admitted that he did not know all that was going on in his programs. See {642829}.
Romain Grosjean is a racing driver with French-Swiss nationality currently competing in the 2021 IndyCar Series with Dale Coyne Racing. Grosjean had previously spent nine seasons in Formula One for a variety of teams, picking up 10 podiums.
