Quote

You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man.

Jeannette Walls

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jeannette Walls
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 21
Journalist
Writer
Phoenix
Arizona
Make
Never
Men
Boss
Fortune
Careers
Working

More quotes by Jeannette Walls

Image
You West Virginia girls are one tough breed, he said. You got that right, I told him.
Jeannette Walls
Image
I believe that everyone has some huge talent in them the really lucky ones discover what it is.
Jeannette Walls
Image
Since Mom wasn't exactly the most useful person in the world, one lesson I learned at an early age was how to get things done, and this was a source of both amazement and concern for Mom, who considered my behavior unladylike but also counted on me. I never knew a girl to have such gumption, she'd say. But I'm not too sure it's a good thing.
Jeannette Walls
Image
You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.
Jeannette Walls
Image
God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.
Jeannette Walls
Image
But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant.
Jeannette Walls
Image
Mom could say that in hindsight, but it seemed to me that when you were in the middle of something, it was awful hard to figure out what part of it was God's will and what wasn't.
Jeannette Walls
Image
Things usually work out in the end. What if they don't? That just means you haven't come to the end yet.
Jeannette Walls
Image
I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence.
Jeannette Walls
Image
Don't you make fun of me or my children! Some babies are premature. Mine were all postmature. That's why they're so smart. Their brains had longer to develop.
Jeannette Walls
Image
My life is not just about the past.
Jeannette Walls
Image
Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.
Jeannette Walls
Image
Don't worry, God understands,' Mom said. 'He knows that your father is a cross we must bear.
Jeannette Walls
Image
One thing about whoring: It put a chicken on the table.
Jeannette Walls
Image
Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour, she'd ask us, when in the same amount of time, I can do a painting that will last forever?
Jeannette Walls
Image
I hadn’t been paying much attention to things like the sunrise, but that old sun had been coming up anyway. It didn’t really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me.
Jeannette Walls
Image
But the positive thoughts would give way to negative thoughts, and the negative thoughts seemed to swoop into her mind the way a big flock of black crows takes over the landscape, sitting thick in the trees and on the fence rails and lawns, staring at you in ominous silence.
Jeannette Walls
Image
When I asked my mother, ‘how do I tell people about you’ her answer was ‘tell the truth’. But of course, the truth is never simple.
Jeannette Walls
Image
Look at the way you live. You've sold out. Next thing I know you'll become a Republican. She shook her head. Where are the values I raised you with?
Jeannette Walls
Image
My advice to anyone is to figure out what you're good at - what it is that you love doing the most in life - and figure out a way to make a living from it.
Jeannette Walls