Geraldo Rivera Quotes

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

At times you feel like you're the only voice speaking out to improve the working conditions of people, whether it's to be able to collectively bargain, to get adequate pay, to know that you can come home safe out of a coal mine.

I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal.

I've never seen someone work for a salary.

The first thing you have to do is make sure you're still wanted back. I never take that for granted any more.

The great question will forever remain, who shall work?

The 35-hour week has from the moment of its inception been a massive mistake. We need to return to people the joy of work.

Men, by and large, make more because of some of the things they do. Their jobs are, by and large, riskier. They don’t mind working nights and weekends. They don’t mind working overtime or outdoors.

Nearly all of us work, a lot: many people spend more waking hours working than doing all other things combined. And nearly all of us spend our lifetimes working for someone other than ourselves.

Back in the old days, you had to work. If you didn't work, you didn't get paid.

People ask me, 'Why don't you take time off?' but the working class doesn't take time off. They're out there working every day. That's what I do, too. I want them to know there is hope, and I'm out there just like they are.

I was barely 16 when I started working. And I worked extensively. But you can work extensively till a point.

Any job is wonderful.

Missourians are a hardworking people. They want good, quality jobs.

Work is at the heart of human dignity.

Having done what I've done at 24 years old, I'm not the kind of person who likes to be out of work.

It's not a very secure industry but it's one we all love and enjoy doing.

People want to work, but they don't want to necessarily want to do labour.

Everything in our lives revolves around our jobs, as much as we hate to say it. Where we live at, where our kids go to school, what we eat, what lifestyle we live, depends on the income we bring in and being able to provide for your family, and that's your employment.

Instead of focusing on this sort of defeatist mentality where we've gotta up the minimum wage, why don't we focus on creating better-paying jobs?

I like to have job security.

For me, it is all about people having jobs, and that is why I make no apology for having focused relentlessly on employment and job creation.

I don't like not working.

Africans don't just need more jobs: they need better jobs.

Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.