Chef Quote by Amaury Guichon

I went to a small school, so I had to be a jack of all trades and master a few.

— Scottie Pippen

So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor.

— Desmond Dekker

I still go through stages of wanting to try other trades. When I was young I thought I'd be a magician. And then a…

— Jason Mraz

I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work.

— Toby Young

I came into the industry at a time when there weren't a lot of choices to what you could do.

— Joe Morton

I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably…

— Nathan Myhrvold

At 15, I had to choose a vocational school, and I was delighted, of course, to go to culinary school. But learning the basics…

— Eric Ripert

If you'd rather be a chooser, enter a market or a transaction where you have something to trade, something of value, something to offer…

— Seth

Also, it's good to have more than one profession, in case your own profession goes out of style. A Wall Street trader who's also…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I got fed up with academia and decided I would rather be a carpenter.

— Geoffrey Hinton

Out of culinary school, I worked as a pastry cook in amazing restaurants for years. I ended up leaving the pastry cook scene because,…

— Christina Tosi

If I had wanted only to make lots of money, I would have chosen a different profession.

— Peter Stamm