Ferran Adria Quotes

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.

I started work at 13, had three or four part-time jobs, and learnt very quickly the values of work.

My first job was, like, McDonald's.

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 got my first job at a firm called Naess & Thomas.

My first paying job in Los Angeles was taking tickets at the Bing under Ron Haver.

After college, I spent a decade working the kinds of jobs that I write about - bartender, shoe salesman, kitchen man - while voraciously reading novels.

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

I was working from a very early age.

I trained, went to college, trained, and got a job. Then got another job. When I wasn't working I worked at a bar, then got another job.

I got my first job by exceeding expectations.

My first job at General Motors was as a quality inspector on the assembly line. I was checking fits between hoods and fenders. I had a little scale and clipboard. At one point, I was probably examining 60 jobs an hour during an eight-hour shift. A job like that teaches you to value all the people who do a job like that.

I was scouted working at the register at McDonald's in Melbourne, Australia. I worked there as my first job, and a guy walked in and gave me his card. I was 16. I was skeptical, but I looked it up when I got home, and it was legitimate.

It's so hard to work that I feel so lucky any time I get to work.

I've only ever had two vacations in my whole career, and I've been in the industry over twenty-something years!

'The Office' was such a great first job.

Your first job can set the trajectory for the rest of your career.

My first job in advertising was actually in the mailroom of Grey Advertising in Sydney.

My first job was at Proctor and Gamble in Cincinnati, my second job was at a pharmaceutical company in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. My third job was at Palmolive. And I realized, three jobs in three years, maybe it wasn't the job. It had to be me.

If you like your job, I suppose you enjoy working hard.

I want to work and continue to work - that's all I've ever done.

The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job - that was through Mike Figgis.

I never interned. The first job I ever had was a very low-paying job, and the guy running the radio station was so poor, he couldn't pay us sometimes - so it's almost like an internship, right?

I had a Saturday job in Barratts shoe shop at the age of 15.

I worked odd jobs delivering pizza, folding chairs, telemarketing, selling kitchen cutlery door to door.