Occupational Value Quotes

What I do quite honestly and seriously and not in any way being humble is not as important as what the garbage collector does. People make actors important.

Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.

When you think about accountants, who would want to be an accountant? But, what would we do without accountants? Whether it's soldiers or garbage men or doctors, everyone has the thing that they love.

It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others.

For those of us that wake up every day and go to our jobs, we know our worth because we know the value we add to the world.

If thousands are thrown out of employment, it suggests that they were not well employed. Why don't they take the hint? It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?

There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.

When we ask what ought to be the relative remunerations of a nurse or a butcher, or a coal miner and a judge at a high court, of the deep sea diver of the cleaner of sewers, of the organiser of a new industry and a jockey, of the inspector of taxes and the inventor of a life-saving drug, of the jet-pilot or the professor of mathematics, the appeal to 'social justice' does not give us the slightest help in deciding.

Teachers are not glorified babysitters with summers off. Their profession fuels all others, and on a normal day that is amazing enough in and of itself.

Show respect for everyone who works for a living, regardless of how trivial their job.