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We don't need American Idols. We need American icons. Icons of work.
- Mike Rowe
#American
#Icons
#Idols
#Need
#Work
Happiness does not come from a job. It comes from knowing what you truly value and behaving in a way that's consistent with those beliefs.
- Mike Rowe
#Happiness
#Job
#Knowing
#Value
#Way
We need to promote an ethic of work. And there's no way one guy or one company is going to be able to do it. It has to be a big hot mess - public, private, government, NGOs and smart alecks on the TV talking about it.
- Mike Rowe
#Company
#Government
#Hot
#Smart
#Work
Most people don't know where their food comes from. We're confused about the fundamentals. How does our food wind up on our plates? How exactly is it that, when I flick the switch, the lights come on?
- Mike Rowe
#Confused
#Food
#Know
#People
#Wind
We've waged war on work. We have collectively agreed, stupidly, that work is the enemy.
- Mike Rowe
#Agreed
#Collectively
#Enemy
#War
#Work
The thing that makes 'Dirty Jobs' different is that it's one of the few shows that portrays work in a way that doesn't highlight the drudgery. Instead, it highlights the humor.
- Mike Rowe
#Different
#Dirty
#Humor
#Way
#Work
In a very general way, our society has fallen out of love with the skilled trades. Part of the problem is a myriad of myths and misperceptions that surround the jobs themselves, but the biggest cause is our stubborn belief that a four-year degree is the best path for the most people.
- Mike Rowe
#Best
#Love
#Path
#Society
#Way
I've got one of those over-stuffed leather chairs from the Pottery Barn. It faces north. I live in San Francisco, so there's the Golden Gate Bridge off to the left, and there's Alcatraz off to the right, and I've got a pile of pulp fiction next to me, and there's usually a decent bottle of red wine next to the fireplace.
- Mike Rowe
#Bridge
#Gate
#Golden
#Live
#Me
My mother's dad dropped out of the eighth grade to work. He had to. By the time he was 30, he was a master electrician, plumber, carpenter, mason, mechanic. That guy was, to me, a magician. Anything that was broken, he could fix. Anybody anywhere in our community knew that if there was a problem, Carl was there to fix it.
- Mike Rowe
#Community
#Dad
#Me
#Time
#Work
At the risk of being glib, I would say if you really want to make America great again, you have to make work cool again.
- Mike Rowe
#America
#Cool
#Great
#Say
#Work
One of the things that continually surprised people with the kind of shows I do, is that we try and find people who aren't doing jobs that are traditionally aspirational but who have nevertheless prospered and found real contentment doing it.
- Mike Rowe
#Contentment
#Doing
#Find
#People
#Real
Good jobs look a lot like kids playing and adults working.
- Mike Rowe
#Good
#Kids
#Like
#Look
#Playing
The skills gap is a reflection of what we value.
- Mike Rowe
#Gap
#Reflection
#Skills
#Value
There is a lot of stuff we can't control, but it is completely in our power to decide what the definition of what a good job is. That's up to us.
- Mike Rowe
#Control
#Good Job
#Good
#Job
#Power
Every bad joke, every endorsement deal, all of the things that a typical host would normally get creamed for, people don't mind, because they know I don't cheat when it comes to the work I actually try. I'm a lab rat. I'm a perpetual apprentice. The joke is on me if there is one.
- Mike Rowe
#Bad
#Me
#Mind
#People
#Work
'Bloody do-gooders' is my expression for people who are nicer than me, who are better than me.
- Mike Rowe
#Better
#Expression
#Me
#People
#Who
I can say the willingness to get dirty has always defined us as an nation, and it's a hallmark of hard work and a hallmark of fun, and dirt is not the enemy.
- Mike Rowe
#Enemy
#Fun
#Hard Work
#Nation
#Work
Dirt used to be a badge of honor. Dirt used to look like work. But we've scrubbed the dirt off the face of work, and consequently we've created this suspicion of anything that's too dirty.
- Mike Rowe
#Dirty
#Face
#Honor
#Look
#Work
Stop looking for the 'right' career, and start looking for a job. Any job. Forget about what you like. Focus on what's available. Get yourself hired. Show up early. Stay late. Volunteer for the scut work. Become indispensable. You can always quit later, and be no worse off than you are today.
- Mike Rowe
#Focus
#Start
#Today
#Work
#Yourself
Work ethic is important because, unlike intelligence, athleticism, charisma, or any other natural attribute, it's a choice.
- Mike Rowe
#Choice
#Important
#Intelligence
#Work
I'm looking forward to the future, and feeling grateful for the past.
- Mike Rowe
#Future
#Grateful
#Looking Forward
#Past
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