After Quote by Philipp Meyer

I had come from a middle-class family in Port Washington, Long Island, and I was really clueless about Wall Street. My first job there…

— Anthony Scaramucci

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

— George H. W. Bush

I went back to bumming around New York, writing freelance stuff for Car & Driver and such.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I was in tailoring business, I sold flowers on the street, I worked construction and many odd jobs.

— Manny Pacquiao

I studied business in school, so I worked for Chanel in marketing. And I also worked part-time in an office. So I had office…

— Stephanie Szostak

My first job was to run a concessions cart. Later, I found a position at the Pacific Film Archive. Thus began a long series…

— Mona Simpson

I loved working on Wall Street. I loved the meritocracy of it and the camaraderie of the trading floor.

— Chelsea Clinton

When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

In the summer between my freshman and sophomore year, my grandfather got me a job at a local messenger company working on Wall Street.…

— Lewis Schiff

I happened to fall into a job that wound up being a seminal piece of television history, which was a show I did on…

— Deirdre Lovejoy

I started trading stocks, options and futures while I was at UCLA, using my earnings from working summers at the old IBM plant on…

— Michael Burry

After years of working on books, I eventually took a more business-oriented job, for the same sorts of reasons that most people take most…

— Chris Pavone