Stephen Colbert Quotes

Work experience for many is their first taste of work and an essential first step into the jobs market.

When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.

I've always been lucky enough to just play tennis, so I never actually had a job when I was growing up.

I've never had a real job in my life. I didn't learn anything, I was terrible at school. It was just this thing. Music was all I wanted to do.

I haven't got a real job.

None of my characters have really had jobs.

I got the first job and kept going. Once I got a job, I very much wanted to keep getting jobs, basically. I did try to learn what I could in those first couple of decades.

I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.

I started getting jobs, and I thought it was going to be real easy.

Marcel, no more painting; go get a job.

I wouldn't say I'm moving to America; I certainly would say that I'm just staying there; and I certainly wouldn't advise anyone to come here unless they've got an extensive CV in the U.K.; you have to build your career wherever you started from.

Fortunately, I've never had a job.

The person who gives you your first job is so important in any industry.

I learned to take the first job that you have in the business that you want to get into. It doesn't matter what that job is, you get your foot in the door.

I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.

I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule.

Anyone with a job wants to hear about how to keep it or get a better one, not what a politician has to offer when workers find themselves with a pink slip.

I've never had a job. I've never needed to.

I'm not picking up my phone and calling anyone for employment.

We need to focus on jobs.

While others may get distracted, I will continue to focus on the problem of unemployment and seek to help create good, high-paying jobs for Arkansans.

Starting my career as a kid, I was doing what jobs I got.

By late 1953, going to New York on vacation, I had lined up several Time Inc. interviews - and what they did was give me a lifelong appreciation of the importance of luck in getting a job.

When I graduated, I was really lucky because I got hired immediately by CBS as a production assistant.

I didn't always have research jobs.