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.
Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.
White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.
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.
There will always be a business cycle, and white-collar workers will get hit in the next recession like they always do in recessions.
The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.
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.
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.
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.
Nah. I’m a consultant, of course. Everyone’s favorite nondescript yet well-paid white-collar job.
If blue collar jobs are leaving and white collar jobs are outsourced what color collar jobs are left?
The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings.
All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
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.
Where's my white collarless shirt from Fred Segal? It's my most capable-looking outfit!
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'.
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.
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.
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.
Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.
Realists do not fear the results of their study.
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
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