Fran Lebowitz Quotes

I never knew anybody who was unhappy with their job and was happy with their life. It's your sense of purpose. Now, some people can find it elsewhere. Some people can work a job and find it some place else.

Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.

Whatever it is, I just loved it and felt at my absolute happiest when I was performing for people. And if that's what you want from a job, then this is the best job you could ever do.

We [actors] are so lucky to do jobs that fulfill us and make us happy. We don't go to work thinking okay, we're working to put food in the fridge. We are doing that too, but we're working because we love what we do.

I never got a job from a poor person.

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

Most of us, like the assembly line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people.

A job is bound to be miserable if it doesn't involve measurement.

Class is a way of looking at society that divides people into different categories based on how much money they're willing to make.

I was very happy in my job at the United Nations.

I love rich people. Any time I needed a job, I went to a rich person. I like poor people, but they never had a job for me.

...It's easier to find a way to make money at something you love than to learn to love a job that you can make money at.

Those with the money are eccentric. Those without, insane.

I am the richest person alive (or at least one of!) because I get to do what I love as a career.

When I was growing up, you were supposed to marry and therefore didn't plan ahead. Planning ahead is one of the few reliable measures of class in the sense that rich people plan for generations forward and poor people plan for Saturday night, and by that measure, women have been lower class. We were less likely to plan ahead because we're more likely to think that who we marry and our children are going to dictate our plans.

I infuse my life with love. I love what I do, the job.

Who hateth me but for my happiness? Or who is honored now but for his wealth? Rather had I, a Jew, be hated thus, Than pitied in a Christian poverty.

Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic?

I like what I do for a living. I also like NOT doing it--perhaps even more.

In 1964 something totally unexpected happened. I got a job I enjoyed.

Laborers want their kids to be merchants or business people. Business people want their kids to be professionals. Professionals want their kids to be academics, professors. Academics want their kids to be artists. And artists don't care if their kids are laborers or not. They can be anything.

I didn't say one negative word about poor people or about middle-class people or anything else. All I said was that the rich deserve our gratitude.

When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.

The problem - at least in the United States - is not that people can't find jobs. The problem is that they're no longer finding jobs that provide them with dignity and decent social status.