Specialties facilitate commerce, and promote efficiency in…

Where are these rational practices to be taught and acquired? Not within the four walls of a bare building, in which formality predominates... But…

— Robert Owen

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

— Orison Swett Marden

There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few.

— Victor Papanek

“Compared to art, all other professions are but chores.”

— T.L. Rese

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

— Edgar Allan Poe

I may have come into politics with an unacknowledged condescension toward the game and the people who played it, but I left with more…

— Michael Ignatieff

Art and relligion are not professions: they are not occupations for which men can be paid. The artist and the saint do what they…

— Anonymous

Many in the creative professions were nerds in their pasts because they spent so long reading comics and using their imaginations when they were…

— Jim Lee

Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions. . .

— Rick Sutter

Human nature is the same in all professions.

— Laurence Sterne

The announcement that I was going to be an actor was made when was I was 10 years old. And that didn't go down…

— Reggie Lee

“As profession recognizes profession, so, too, does vice.”

— Marcel Proust

There are some professions that culturally and sociologically take a long time to change, and because of that, there's still sexism in comedy audiences.…

— Miranda Hart

The liberal professions, and in a wider sense the well-to-do classes, are certainly those with the liveliest taste for knowledge and the most active…

— Emile Durkheim

Rapid development in areas like machine-to-machine communications and the Internet of Things, coupled with the proliferation of big data, means higher-skilled professions, such as…

— Alain Dehaze