White Collar Quotes

37 quotes by 32 authors

They'll get it all from you sooner or later 'cause they own this f**kin' place. It's a big club and you ain't in it. You… — George Carlin
There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions. — Robert Reich
Where's my white collarless shirt from Fred Segal? It's my most capable-looking outfit! — Cher
Doing 'White Collar,' quite often my character goes undercover, so therein lies the compounding of the imagination. I get to play Peter Burke and then… — Tim DeKay
I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes. — Sara Paretsky
The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings. — George Orwell
Then, in the 1980's, came the paroxysm of downsizing, and the very nature of the corporation was thrown into doubt. In what began almost as… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Much of what is euphemistically known as the middle class, merely because it dresses up to go to work, is now reduced to proletarian conditions… — Christopher Lasch
Government has coddled, accepted, and ignored white collar crime for too long. It is time the nation woke up and realized that it's not the… — Harry Markopolos
I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only… — Jean Shepherd
The flaw in our character is our insistence on separating blue-collar jobs from white-collar jobs, and encouraging one form of education over another. — Mike Rowe
I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is… — W. Somerset Maugham
A lot of white-collar work requires less of the routine, rule-based, what we might call algorithmic set of capabilities, and more of the harder-to-outsource, harder-to-automate,… — Daniel H. Pink
In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it. — Adam McKay
The obvious liberal rejoinders come to mind: What about the child whose home is hit by a bomb? Did she have some bomb-shaped thoughtform that… — Barbara Ehrenreich
This usually happens in the white-collar classes: These people take to worshipping pointlessness. Examples are Twin Peaks, Christo's artwork, and academic liberal politics. But a… — Noah Cicero
The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon. — Sara Paretsky
White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America. — Sara Paretsky
When white-collar people get jobs, they sell not only their time and energy, but their personalities as well. They sell by the week, or month,… — C. Wright Mills

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