logo

Quotes About Profession

But in the same way that she wanted a marriage and a profession, she was determined that motherhood would not be the end of her career.
~ Unknown
I'm not a ranger, I'm a pilot.
~ Mark Bowden
Having told the truth for years as a first-rate reporter, Jason Leopold now comes completely clean about himself and also sheds light on his imperiled profession. A riveting account of just how hard the truth can be.
~ Mark Crispin Miller
Forget about earnings. That's a priesthood of the accounting profession," he would preach, unrelentingly. "What you're really after is appreciating assets. You want to own as much of that asset as you can; then you want to finance it as efficiently as possible." 6 And above all else, make sure that the deals you do avoid as much in taxes as is legally possible.
~ Unknown
99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
~ Steven Wright
Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a profession is that?
~ William Kittredge
I can't watch other people doing comedy. As soon as somebody starts being funny I have to turn off because it upsets me. I get comedy indigestion. I just hate anybody else being funny. That's my job.
~ Jenny Eclair
Probably because I'm bald. Don't the bald people always play doctors and principals? Yeah, isn't that funny? And lawyers. A lot of lawyers and judges.
~ Jeffrey Tambor
I never knew what an engineer did for a living when I was a kid. I still don't.
~ Scott Adams
Who are you and how did you get in here?" "I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.
~ Leslie Nielsen
My whole family can talk. They are all car salesmen. They are all funny.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Entrepreneurship is a process, not a job or profession. So be faithful to the process and remember that even when times are bad, the process will give you a glimpse of the future that lies ahead.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession.
~ Simone Signoret
Study until 25, investigate until 40, profession until 60, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
~ William Osler
I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.
~ Voltaire
The free-lance writer is the person who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
~ Robert Benchley
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
~ Ronald Reagan
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
~ Ronald Reagan
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car
~ Carrie Snow
It is a silly question to ask a prostitute why she does it.. These are the highest-paid professional women in America.
~ Gail Sheehy
Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
~ David Ogilvy
A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.
~ Betty Friedan
All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
~ Saul Bellow