Walter Dean Myers Quotes

Never give up your day job. I do all sorts of things, but at the end of the day, it all boils down to 'The Today Show,' and I love doing this thing, and they will have to blow me out of here with dynamite before I leave.

I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.

If you put someone in a job who is thinking for even a moment about the next job, you have the wrong person.

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.

The reality is that I spent years in the factories in Italy when I first set up Jimmy Choo. Today, everyone who has a job at Jimmy Choo, I've done their job - right down to the cleaner.

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

I have a feeling I will work for a long, long time. I like it a lot... and I don't know. I just have a feeling that I'm going to be one of those people who go on for ever.

Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.

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

I am doing the job with the mentality that I am going to be here a long time and I hope that I am.

I don't see my show as a stepping stone to something else like some people, who get a job then have a foot out the door looking for their next job.

I reject the idea that any job is too hard or too dirty for American workers to do. American workers just expect and demand to be paid a decent wage.

We cannot play with the lives of our own staff beyond a certain limit. Our people in the field are increasingly desperate.

If there is to be peace in our industrial life, let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees

The truth is that we have got to make America work for working people again.

I love my job every day. So whether it's for four years or for two weeks, it's still... And when you're working on a set, it feels like a family straight away.

I remember I used to think my dad was really cool working at a factory. He used to make buttons. I used to brag, 'This button here, My dad made it.' There was this sense of pride. It's knowing your dad is doing something cool.

My father lost a lung in a chemical accident at General Motors, and after a while, he got a settlement that sort of changed all of our lives and moved us from, what we say, 'ashy to classy' in some aspects.

All my family worked for Puma. My mother worked there, and my father was the guy that opened and closed up in the evening. We lived in the neighbouring building - just a couple of steps, and I would be in the Puma factory. All 300 people that worked there knew me; it was my adventure playground. I knew everything, even how to make a shoe sole.

Make a total commitment to your company, your job, and your career. Uncommitted people have no future.

My dad worked as a floor manager in a clothing mill in Dombivli and my mom is a housewife.

Unions continue to be important for raising the standard of living for working Americans, whether or not they happen to be in a union.

I did all kind of jobs to sustain myself. I worked at a grocery store, in the public health department, and what was then Thomas Cook and Sons. The last job was particularly interesting, but I got fired from it.