Believe Quote by Frederick W. Smith

We're trying to do for the national ­security apparatus what FedEx did for the postal ­service.

— Erik Prince

I did all sorts of things that you wouldn't normally find on an engineer's docket, but it made an educated person out of me.

— Frances Arnold

It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't…

— Paul Auster

When I was up on my first flight, we were really putting it together. So, I was essentially a construction worker.

— Sunita Williams

I spent six years before the mast on all types of merchant ships, and naturally I feel well qualified for seafaring roles.

— Van Heflin

Every time I'd get a job, they'd say: 'You'll be good at loading trucks.' I couldn't explain that there was more to me than…

— Jason Isbell

I know how to lay a copper pipe and PVC. And I was forklift certified.

— Summer Rae

I placed the Marines where the hardest work was to be accomplished, and I never once found my confidence in them misplaced.

— Winfield Scott

The Marines gave me a really strong sense of discipline and a work ethic that kicks in at my job.

— Drew Carey

But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.

— Paul Berg

I knew that manual labor wasn't the career for me.

— James Carville

I had a wacky job driving a forklift for an air freight company. That was the worst.

— Kurt Vile