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A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.

My brother-in-law had to give up his last job because of illness. His boss became sick of him.

America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.

Ask a writer what he thinks about critics and the answer you get is similar to what you get when you ask a lamppost how he feels about dogs.

It's amazing how important your job is when you want the day off - and how unimportant it is when you want a raise.

Most of the men sitting in first class on an airplane have really boring jobs.

The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.

I once worked as a salesman and was very independent. I took orders from no one.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is very important.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid stable business.

I'm a concert pianist. That's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.

She used to be a schoolteacher but she has no class now.

An actor's a guy who if you ain't talking about him ain't listening.

A secretary must think like a man act like a lady look like a girl - and work like a dog.

I never liked being a salesman. . . . Ever since I got my first two orders: Get out! and Stay out!

My agent gets 10 percent of everything I get except the blinding headaches.

If law school is so hard to get through how come there are so many lawyers?

When asked to contribute ten dollars to a lawyer's funeral I said: "Here's fifty. Bury five of them."

I don't like the fact that doctors are referred to as practicing.

I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late.

Each and every one of us was created to carry out justice, judgment, truth and equity on the earth. It could be in different spheres of life, in various professions or in diverse gifting

Expert: An ordinary man away from home giving advice.

A specialist is a person who knows very much about very little and continues to learn more and more about less and less until eventually he knows practically everything about almost nothing at all.

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

I'm a writer. I write checks. They're not very good.

I left journalism because I met too many interesting people at an uninteresting salary.

Professional life is like a fire hydrant. You spend all of your time putting out fires and standing your ground against the big dogs.

Downsizing means you're about to become the guest of honor at a going-away party.

Experience is the one thing you have plenty of when you're too old to get the job.

Vice president: That's the title given to a corporate manager instead of a raise.

Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits.

Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there I go to work.

Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

Don't be too enthusiastic when choosing a profession – think of earningfor life too.

After all, choosing a profession is extremely challenging – it is likely thehardest thing one has to do in the period of reaching maturity.