Wolfgang Puck Quotes

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

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

As soon as I left school at 16, I worked in a factory making aircraft components.

I've been working since I'm 9 years old.

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

Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads.

I spent thirty-two years in a paper mill in southern Ohio, and before that, I worked in a meatpacking plant and a shoe factory.

I started working for Bethlehem Steel when I was about 16 during the summers.

The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.

I've been working since I was a child. I worked cutting lawns, delivering newspapers; I was a telephone salesperson; I was a guitar repairman.

I started working when I was 9 or 10.

Starting at 11, I was a movie-theater popcorn girl, a babysitter, a sales clerk - in the Midwest, they start them early!

I'm convinced we go to school at the wrong time. I'd have been delighted, aged 12, to get out into the world and earn some money doing something menial.

Most of America doesn't pay dishwashers $10.

Policymakers can draw much from 'The Need for Roots': such clear prescriptions as that employers ought to provide an adequate vocational training for their employees, education should be compulsory and publicly funded, and include technical as well as elementary education.

I started working at clubs when I was sixteen, which is young. I would not want my kid doing that, but I did, and that's how it went.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

I started working when I was 13, picking up trash, bagging ice.

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

Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men.

Well, I've cleaned bathrooms in a warehouse. That was pretty terrible. But I can't complain because I'm sure other people have done worse.

I come from a working-class family, and I've been working since I was 13, from babysitting to blueberry picking to factory work to bookstore work. And of course, being a mother and homemaker, the hardest work of all.

I got a job immediately after leaving high school; I was lucky - three dollars a week and all I could eat, working on a vegetable truck.

When I was 13, I had my first job with my dad carrying shingles up to the roof. And then I got a job washing dishes at a restaurant. And then I got a job in a grocery store deli. And then I got a job in a factory sweeping Cheerio dust off the ground.