114 Quotes by Mike Rowe

Anything worth doing hurts a little.

Opportunity usually shows up in overalls and looking like work.

My mothers 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.

If we are lending money that ostensibly we don't have to kids who have no hope of making it back in order to train them for jobs that clearly don't exist, I might suggest that we've gone around the bend a little bit,

What you do, who you’re with, and how you feel about the world around you, is completely up to you.

The skills gap is a reflection of what we value. To close the gap, we need to change the way the country feels about work.

Passion is too important to be without, but too fickle to be guided by. Which is why I’m more inclined to say, 'Don’t Follow Your Passion, But Always Bring it With You.'

Some jobs pay better, some jobs smell better, and some jobs have no business being treated like careers. But work is never the enemy, regardless of the wage. Because somewhere between the job and the paycheck, there’s still a thing called opportunity, and that’s what people need to pursue.

We are lending money we don't have to kids who can't pay it back to train them for jobs that no longer exist. That's nuts.