His Occupation Quotes
- A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Education makes a man a more intelligent shoemaker, if that be his occupation, but not by teaching him how to make shoes; it does so… — John Stuart Mill
- The man who is ... physically able to handle pig-iron and is sufficiently ... stupid to choose this for his occupation is rarely able to… — Frederick Winslow Taylor
- Everlastingly chained to a single little fragment of the Whole, man himself develops into nothing but a fragment; everlastingly in his ear the monotonous sound… — Friedrich Schiller
- Give us, O give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those… — Thomas Carlyle
- Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of his property in peace and safety,… — Thomas Jefferson
- The portrait painter... If he insults his sitters his occupation is gone. Whether he paints the should instead of the features, or the latter with… — Walter J. Phillips
- Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to make him happy… — Blaise Pascal
- He (the businessman) is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation — Henry Louis Mencken