White Collar Quotes

• White collar conservative flashin' down the street,
  Pointing that plastic finger at me,
  Hoping soon my kind will drop and die,
  But I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Freedom, White, Flags

  "Song: 'If 6 Was 9'". 1967.

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• Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.

  John Grisham

  White, Inmates, Prison

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• White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.

  Sara Paretsky

  White, America, Crime

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• I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.

  Sara Paretsky

  Writing, Years, White

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• There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.

  Robert Reich

  Philosophy, White, Political

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• The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.

  Sara Paretsky

  White, Justice, Criminals

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• A lot of white-collar work requires less of the routine, rule-based, what we might call algorithmic set of capabilities, and more of the harder-to-outsource, harder-to-automate, non-routine, creative, juristic - as the scholars call it - abilities.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, White, Creative

  "'Drive' Not Always Explained By Rewards". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. January 4, 2010.

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• If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

  Orson Welles

  Happiness, Writing, Optimistic

  Orson Welles, Mark W. Estrin (2002). “Orson Welles: Interviews”, p.221, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Sad Love, Love Is, Literature History

  FaceBook post by Louis de Bernieres from Dec 18, 2011

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• In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Mean, Simple

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's statement on the National Industrial Recovery Act, June 16, 1933.

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• Nah. I’m a consultant, of course. Everyone’s favorite nondescript yet well-paid white-collar job.

  Richelle Mead

  Jobs, White, Wells

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Succubus On Top”, p.23, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• If blue collar jobs are leaving and white collar jobs are outsourced what color collar jobs are left?

  Bob Edwards

  Jobs, White, Blue

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• The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings.

  George Orwell

  Jobs, Men, White

  The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) ch. 11

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• All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.

  Tom Peters

  White, Facts, Life Is

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• Doing 'White Collar,' quite often my character goes undercover, so therein lies the compounding of the imagination. I get to play Peter Burke and then someone else when Peter Burke goes undercover.

  Tim DeKay

  Lying, Character, Play

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• Where's my white collarless shirt from Fred Segal? It's my most capable-looking outfit!

  Cher

  Clueless, White, Shirts

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• Then, in the 1980's, came the paroxysm of downsizing, and the very nature of the corporation was thrown into doubt. In what began almost as a fad and quickly matured into an unshakable habit, companies were 'restructuring,' 'reengineering,' and generally cutting as many jobs as possible, white collar as well as blue . . . The New York Times captured the new corporate order succinctly in 1987, reporting that... 'All such allegiances are viewed as expendable under the new rules. With survival at stake, only market leadership, strong profits and a high stock price can be allowed to matter'.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Strong, Jobs, New York

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• Experts kill me. Economic experts, that is. Corporations, foundations, publications and governments pay them by the bucketful, and they fill buckets with forecasts that change more frequently than white-collar, workers do shirts. What Lies Ahead is the usual title. What Lies would often be more appropriate. If women's hemlines changed as rapidly as an economist's forecasts, the fashion people and the textile industry would be more profitable than any other. In fact, if all the country's economists were laid end to end, they still wouldn't reach a conclusion.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Country, Fashion, Lying

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• They'll get it all from you sooner or later 'cause they own this f**kin' place. It's a big club and you ain't in it. You and I are not in the big club. By the way, it's the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table is tilted, folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. Good, honest, hard-working people: white collar, blue collar, it doesn't matter what color shirt you have on.

  George Carlin

  Believe, Hard Work, Thinking

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• It was a white-collar crime.” Illium gave her an odd look. “In the human world, such crimes are lightly punished, though they harm hundreds, leading some to choose death out of despair, while the man who beats a single person is considered the worse criminal.

  Nalini Singh

  Men, White, Despair

  Nalini Singh (2011). “Archangel's Consort”, p.123, Hachette UK

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• Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Fun, Party, Hunting

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• Realists do not fear the results of their study.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Fear, Deep Thought, Study

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• The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Time, Reason

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• We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.

  Eric Hoffer

  Freedom, Fire, Frying Pans

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Positive, Wisdom

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.112

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