Top 14 White-Collar Quotes

Words matter. These are the best White-Collar Quotes from famous people such as Preet Bharara, Gail Collins, Jesse Ventura, Tom Peters, Robert Reich, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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The aggressive use of wiretaps is important: It shows that we are targeting white-collar insider-trading rings with the same powerful investigative tools that have worked so successfully against the mob and drug cartels.
Preet Bharara
In the 1960s, you had this booming economy, and you didn’t really have enough men around to fill all the jobs. So there was this sudden demand that women come back and perform a lot of the white-collar and pink-collar roles that men had done before or that hadn’t existed before.
Gail Collins
My father used to always say to me that, you know, if a guy goes out to steal a loaf of bread to feed his family, they’ll give him 10 years, but a guy can do white-collar crime and steal the money of thousands and he’ll get probation and a slap on the wrist.
Jesse Ventura
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
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
Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.
John Grisham
Part of the reason that women go to college is to get out of the food service, clerical, pink-collar ghetto and into a more white-collar job. That does not necessarily mean they are being paid more than the blue-collar jobs men have.
Gloria Steinem
We’re carrying out a real crusade against corruption and impunity with a focus on white-collar crime.
Joao Lourenco
The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.
Tom Peters
It is tough for an actress to raise her voice on sexual harassment because the chances are they will question your character, they will ruin your career, and they will defeat you in the power game. So one has to be very strong to fight against these white-collar mafias.
Shilpa Shinde
Frankly, any city person who doesn’t think I deserve a white-collar salary as a farmer doesn’t deserve my special food.
Joel Salatin
Some people see writing as a white-collar career, but I’ve always approached it as a blue-collar writer.
Joe R. Lansdale
The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
Damian Lewis
It’s a very confusing experience living as a woman in Japan. If your husband is white-collar, the wife is blue. Even if you marry a person of status, the wife inevitably remains a rung below.
Natsuo Kirino