Not a law firm in the entire city of New York bid for my employment as a lawyer when I earned my degree.

I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.

In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment… the European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.

I’ve taken so many kids out of Pittsburgh and onto the great white way in New York City right into a Broadway show.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!

A good lawyer is going to try to protect her client.

When I was born, the economy wasn’t in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick to try and find work.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too – eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko’s, Fatburger, Subway – I was a sandwich artist – and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance.

The problem with being an employee or self-employed is you pay the highest taxes.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn – I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point – and that was it.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

People everywhere in the world are hungry for economic opportunity. And it’s about a lot more than being able to make money.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.

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 get seaman’s papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me.

Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that I was going to end up writing briefs for about ten years for these fellows who I thought I was smarter than. And I was kind of losing my feeling for that.

I love our daughters more than anything in the world – more than life itself. And while that may not be the first thing that some folks want to hear from an Ivy-league-educated lawyer, it is truly who I am. So for me, being Mom-in-Chief is, and always will be, job number one.

I hate interviews – but you have to do them.

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

When I was 16… I worked in a pet store. And they fired me because… they had three snakes in there, and one day I braided them.

The concern was that if a woman was doing gender equality, her chances of making it to tenure in the law school were diminished. It was considered frivolous.

If you’ve ever hauled a 28-pound two-year-old around New York, you’ll find that men fold at the knees a lot quicker than women.

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today’s military rejects include tomorrow’s hard-core unemployed.

God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.

After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.

The real minimum wage is zero.

I’m a working-class person, working with class.

I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.

Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that’s associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.

If I lost my job, I’d get a job at McDonald’s.

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

An unemployed court jester is nobody’s fool.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I’d do is join a union.

Tourism provides employment to the poorest of the poor. Gram seller earns something, auto-rickshaw driver earns something, pakoda seller earns something, and tea seller also earns something.

I say this everywhere I go: I admire and respect Hillary. She has been a lawyer, a law professor, First Lady of Arkansas, First Lady of the United States, a U.S. Senator, Secretary of State.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer’s avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.

I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.

If you just needed the skills to pass the bar, two years would be enough. But if you think of law as a learned profession, then a third year is an opportunity for, on the one hand, public service and practice experience, but on the other, also to take courses that round out the law that you didn’t have time to do.

The taxpayer – that’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.

Governor Romney has a great business background. He is extremely well educated. He has several degrees from Harvard, including, you know, business and including a law degree.

The Make in India campaign has taken off and is backed with skill development. It is going to open new vistas for employment for the youth.

You get a lawyer whether you’re in a military tribunal or whether you’re in a federal court, number one. The attorney general decided that the court with the biggest – with the greatest venue, with the best jurisdiction was the New York court. That was the right decision to make.

The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it.

Film is a very tight little box. If you don’t fit in that box, you’re gone. Television, there’s more room to move around.

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

I was tremendously fortunate to be alive and a lawyer, working at a university so I had more flexible hours, when the women’s movement was coming alive and when it became possible to argue successfully for a view of the equal protection clause that included women.

I love being in a courtroom.

I think New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has.