Charles Platt Quotes

I'm not qualified to do anything else. So there better be another job. I'm kind of stuck now. I'm enjoying my life and I'm enjoying my work, and I'm enjoying the fact that the work I'm doing is garnering some interest and that's great. I just hope that it continues.

What Is a Good Job? It is a job for which the worker is qualified and for which he has been prepared. It is one which will not enslave him for life, but which shall employ him for as long a time as he needs it in order to win his own economic safety for life. It is one which will reward him lavishly — not in wages or in any form of money payments since money is far too unstable a medium for such purposes — but it shall reward him with due amounts of the actual things and services which he requires in the carrying on of his daily existence.

Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.

It would be great if firefighters across the country had the guarantee that they would be making enough money to support their family right from the get-go, but that's not the case.

A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.

If I don't work for a while, I don't work for a while.

A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it.

You just want to be able to have a nice career and make a living at it.

The issue most on Hoosiers' minds is job creation, job retention, and household income.

I've been very fortunate and never not worked.

It's a very different feeling to work on a show with a future.

After years of working on books, I eventually took a more business-oriented job, for the same sorts of reasons that most people take most new jobs: fancier title, higher pay, opportunities for advancement.

Once you have been hot and cold, you get real appreciative when you got a place to go every day with decent material, a paycheck to come in, and nice people to work with.

The number one job facing the middle class. And it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: Jobs. J-O-B-S.

In the last 17 years of his working life, my father was finally rewarded with having landed a great job as first, a maintenance engineer, and then a senior locksmith with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.

All my life, since I was 16, I've been wondering where that next job was gonna come from.

People really do think they have to choose between high stress and high reward jobs, and low stress and low reward jobs.

You would think that when someone accepts a position with a company, they would assume that their life will be better off because they have that job rather than a different one.

First of all when you're a mommy like you like the consistency of being on a show like that's just peace of mind, I know I have financial, you know stability.

I don't care where I have to go for work. I just care that it's a good project. That's what I want.

The career isn't guaranteed for as long as you might want to play.

In America, people know there are always 10 people better than them who are after their job. In France, they know that too - but no one is going to get their job till they go to their grave.

Sometimes I think, 'Oh, I wish I just had a nice job where you're getting a salary.' Just sometimes.

In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.