Ernest Borgnine Quotes

From being a waiter, to a door-to-door salesman, to a car-washer, to a delivery boy - I have done it all.

My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much about the value of hard work there as I ever did later.

Meat workers may have been looked down upon socially, but at least they were well-paid and were a fit and lively bunch as a result of hard, honest physical work.

I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.

I was raised as a real worker: you know, you get out and get a real job.

I've always worked in cinemas or cafes to make money because it turns out freelance journalism is quite hard to get into.

I've worked everywhere. I worked in a warehouse packing surf supplies, a restaurant washing dishes, in retail, and I was a 'sandwich artist' at Subway.

I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.

I just want to make it clear that I have been working since I was ten years old.

I haven't been out of work since the day I took my pants off.

I can always go back to construction. That's great money, but the problem is you can cut off your hand.

I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.

Because the truth is, today's immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay, jobs that are just about impossible to fill.

I know I'll always work. In what form, it really doesn't matter.

When you grow up with a mother who has to wash dishes and clean hotel rooms, you know the importance of having a job, and you can't be without a job for any length of time, or you will be without anything.

I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

People's jobs are the biggest asset that they have. The net present value of your job is worth more than your house or your stock portfolio. As people decide whether they're going to buy a car, they're more concerned about whether they have a job and are likely to have a job next year.

I had to work to put myself through school, so I always worked in the heaviest industries I could find because that's who paid the best.

I did quite a lot of menial jobs. I was a waiter, an inventory clerk touring round properties listing cups and saucers, and a laserquest marshal.

I started working when I was seven and I was working for five dollars a night at the Met.

The American dream always meant that anybody willing to put in a hard day's work could make a decent living. That's just not true anymore for people without at least some post-high school education.

We say, pay talent well and genius generously, but pay well also the arm that toils; pay the needle, the saw, the spade, the hoe, the mop.

The thing about this business is you have to take the work while you can.

But the way I look at it is just about every profession in our society: There's some lasting effects. It's just the way that our society is set up. People have to work.

The hardest thing about this industry is not working.