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![Plato](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651532170i/879._UX200_CR0,51,200,200_.jpg)
“If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.”
― The Republic
― The Republic
![Drew Carey](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1238011275i/22598._UX200_CR0,3,200,200_.jpg)
“Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so?
There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.”
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There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.”
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![Idowu Koyenikan](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1531685899i/8559992._UY200_CR171,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Even though your time on the job is temporary, if you do a good enough job, your work there will last forever.”
― Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
― Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
![Shannon L. Alder](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1647739446i/1391130._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud.”
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![Thomas Sowell](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1230424337i/2056._UX200_CR0,40,200,200_.jpg)
“Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage that many workers receive in the wake of the creation or escalation of a government-mandated minimum wage, because they lose their jobs or fail to find jobs when they enter the labor force. Making it illegal to pay less than a given amount does not make a worker’s productivity worth that amount—and, if it is not, that worker is unlikely to be employed.”
― Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy
― Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy
![Douglas Adams](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1616277702i/4._UX200_CR0,15,200,200_.jpg)
“So the hours are pretty good then?' he resumed.
The Vogon stared down at him as sluggish thoughts moiled around in the murky depths.
Yeah,' he said, 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.”
― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
The Vogon stared down at him as sluggish thoughts moiled around in the murky depths.
Yeah,' he said, 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.”
― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
![Jeff Lindsay](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1511733399i/10482._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“Have you noticed how difficult it is just to get along in the world? If you're no good at all in your job, people treat you badly and eventually you will be unemployed. And if you're a little better than competent, everyone expects miracles from you, every single time. Like most of life, it's a no-win situation. And if you dare to mention it, no matter how creatively you phrase your complaints, you are shunned as a whiner.”
― Dexter Is Delicious
― Dexter Is Delicious
“Pick a leader who will keep jobs in your country by offering companies incentives to hire only within their borders, not one who allows corporations to outsource jobs for cheaper labor when there is a national employment crisis. Choose a leader who will invest in building bridges, not walls. Books, not weapons. Morality, not corruption. Intellectualism and wisdom, not ignorance. Stability, not fear and terror. Peace, not chaos. Love, not hate. Convergence, not segregation. Tolerance, not discrimination. Fairness, not hypocrisy. Substance, not superficiality. Character, not immaturity. Transparency, not secrecy. Justice, not lawlessness. Environmental improvement and preservation, not destruction. Truth, not lies.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
![Elmore Leonard](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1240015224i/12940._UX200_CR0,23,200,200_.jpg)
“There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or oceans, rockbound or with palm trees; and there are cities like Detroit that have to work for a living, whose reason for being might be geographical but whose growth is based on industry, jobs. Detroit has its natural attractions: lakes all over the place, an abundance of trees and four distinct seasons for those who like variety in their weather, everything but hurricanes and earth-quakes. But it’s never been the kind of city people visit and fall in love with because of its charm or think, gee, wouldn’t this be a nice place to live.”
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![Alain de Botton](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1189753902i/13199._UX200_CR0,44,200,200_.jpg)
“When does a job feel meaningful? Whenever it allows us to generate delight or reduce suffering in others. Though we are often taught to think of ourselves as inherently selfish, the longing to act meaningfully in our work seems just as stubborn a part of our make-up as our appetite for status or money. It is because we are meaning-focused animals rather than simply materialistic ones that we can reasonably contemplate surrendering security for a career helping to bring drinking water to rural Malawi or might quit a job in consumer goods for one in cardiac nursing, aware that when it comes to improving the human condition a well-controlled defibrillator has the edge over even the finest biscuit.
But we should be wary of restricting the idea of meaningful work too tightly, of focusing only on the doctors, the nuns of Kolkata or the Old Masters. There can be less exalted ways to contribute to the furtherance of the collective good....
....An endeavor endowed with meaning may appear meaningful only when it proceeds briskly in the hands of a restricted number of actors and therefore where particular workers can make an imaginative connection between what they have done with their working days and their impact upon others.”
― The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
But we should be wary of restricting the idea of meaningful work too tightly, of focusing only on the doctors, the nuns of Kolkata or the Old Masters. There can be less exalted ways to contribute to the furtherance of the collective good....
....An endeavor endowed with meaning may appear meaningful only when it proceeds briskly in the hands of a restricted number of actors and therefore where particular workers can make an imaginative connection between what they have done with their working days and their impact upon others.”
― The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
![Milton Friedman](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1331406817i/5001._UX200_CR0,42,200,200_.jpg)
“For example, the supporters of tariffs treat it as self-evident that the creation of jobs is a desirable end, in and of itself, regardless of what the persons employed do. That is clearly wrong. If all we want are jobs, we can create any number--for example, have people dig holes and then fill them up again, or perform other useless tasks. Work is sometimes its own reward. Mostly, however, it is the price we pay to get the things we want. Our real objective is not just jobs but productive jobs--jobs that will mean more goods and services to consume.”
― Free to Choose: A Personal Statement
― Free to Choose: A Personal Statement
![Carlos Ruiz Zafón](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1601032197i/815._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Making money isn't hard in itself,what's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting your life to”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
![Maria V. Snyder](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1624246342i/445303._UX200_CR0,22,200,200_.jpg)
“As her newest apprentice, it had been my job to go to the market every morning. I had gotten all the jobs no one else wanted, but I had treated each task as if it had been essential to do well -- a trick I had learned from my father.”
― Touch of Power
― Touch of Power
![Gustavo Arellano](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1212288482i/359803.jpg)
“Your life depends on a random stranger who could kill you, will probably disrespect you, and will most likely pay you much less than you deserve. But even those prospects are better than the ones you used to have. This is the life of los jornaleros – the day laborers.”
― Ask a Mexican
― Ask a Mexican
![Huey P. Newton](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1213851919i/52705._UX200_CR0,48,200,200_.jpg)
“Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach. Then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist and finally left stranded to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them.”
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![Colson Whitehead](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1561996933i/10029._UX200_CR0,15,200,200_.jpg)
“The other patrollers were boys and men of bad character; the work attracted a type. In another country they would have been criminals, but this was America.”
― The Underground Railroad
― The Underground Railroad
“I’m very interested in the emotional honesty of things, which at times looks kind of ugly and at times looks scary and not polished, and so there were many times when I would audition for something and I would come from, for me, a very honest place, but it’s completely not what they’re looking for for that type of material. But I was always very steadfast in what I was interested in, and I felt like, I’m gonna tell the truth as best as I know it. And you eventually start to understand that the projects find you that meet up with that. It takes as long as it takes, and for me it took like 20 years, but I’m really glad. You know, the jobs always ultimately end up going to the person who’s supposed to tell that story, and those weren’t my stories to tell.”
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“The problem is that those of us who are lucky enough to do work that we love are sometimes cursed with too damn much of it.”
― All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists
― All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists
![John Derbyshire](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1366503446i/101881._CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“Ninety percent of paid work is time-wasting crap. The world gets by on the other ten.”
― We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism
― We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism
![Jodi Picoult](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1657141143i/7128._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“My high school guidance counselor, Mrs. Inverholl, once had me take an aptitude test to figure out my future. The number one job recommendation for my set of skills was an air traffic accident investigator, of which there are fewer than fifty in the world. The number two job was a museum curator for Chinese-American studies. The number three job was a circus clown.”
― House Rules
― House Rules
![Mokokoma Mokhonoana](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1674037554i/7152008._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank statements before they tell us what we could or should do with our own money.”
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![Cheryl Strayed](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1445820056i/155717._UY200_CR49,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I hope when people ask what you're going to do with your English and/or creative writing degree you'll say: ... Carry it with me, as I do everything that matters.”
― Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
― Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
![Irvine Welsh](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1461084249i/5687._UY200_CR18,0,200,200_.jpg)
“This social worker lassie turns round n gies us a stroppy look. Ah jist smiles bit she looked away aw fuckin nippy likes. Disnae cost nowt tae be social. A social worker thit cannae be fuckin social; that's nae good tae nae cunt, thon. Like a lifeguard thit cannae fuckin swim. Shouldnae be daein that kinday joab.”
― The Acid House
― The Acid House
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