Quote by K.J. Parker

“It's not the tailor that makes the man.”

— Romanian proverb

“Somehow society has fooled us into believing that our job is the important part of life.”

— Alan Dickson

“...there are people who try to look as if they are doing a good and thorough job, and then there are the people who…

— John D. MacDonald

“I never get tired of people telling me how important their job is as an excuse for screwing it up.”

— Christopher Farnsworth

“It's so much easier to tell other people how to do their job than fix one's own shortcoming, isn't it?”

— Helen Simonson

“tailor, if he did not drink and attended to his business, could earn more money than a clerk”

— Samuel Butler

“The unfortunate thing about public misfortunes is that everyone regards himself as qualified to talk about them.”

— Emil M. Cioran

“No one is going to give a damn about your résumé; they want to see what you have made with your own little fingers.”

— David Carr

“I feel my job is to tell them once it may be toxic and to shut up. It is their choice about what to…

— Steven Magee

“Think like an owner, and expect the people you work with to do the same.”

— Ray Dalio

“The art of presenting oneself, he had once told Sybil, lies in creating an immediate shock which is countered by a slow retreat into…

— Timothy Findley

“who helps you learn what you need to know for your job? How did you connect with those people?”

— David Warlick