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"When at work, be diligent because there are many people who wish they had your job, but they couldn't since you are the one who got."
"Don't be too enthusiastic when choosing a profession " think of earningfor life too."
"A writer can live by his writing. If not so luxuriously as by other trades, then less luxuriously. The nature of the work he does all day will more affect his happiness than the quality of his dinner at night. Whatever be your calling, and however much it brings you in the year, you could still, you know, get more by cheating. We all suffer ourselves to be too much concerned about a little poverty; but such considerations should not move us in the choice of that which is to be the business and justification of so great a portion of our lives; and like the missionary, the patriot, or the philosopher, we should all choose that poor and brave career in which we can do the most and best for mankind."
"Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice."
"Eric Schmid explained that only one criterion that mattered when picking a job-fat growth. When companies grow quickly, there are more things to do than there are people to do them. When companies grow more slowly or stop growing, there is less to do and too many people to not be doing them. Politics and stagnation set in, and everyone falters, He told me, "If you're offered a seat on a rocket sip, you don't ask what seat. You just get on."
Explore more quotes by Mother Jones
"If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!"
"I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!"
"I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please."
"I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone."
"The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win."
"Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!"
"Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time."
"My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong."
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