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I've done everything. Selling door-to-door fire extinguishers... In bars, I used to repair those machines that have 10 different buttons on them to spray club soda and seltzer.

— J. B. Smoove

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The only thing I knew how to do without a lot of money was repairing tools. I actually started making and repairing tools for machines.

— Stef Wertheimer

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

— Ovid

I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well when the factory burned down, destroying all our machines - 150 of them. This was very hard on the girls who had paid for their machines.

— Rose Schneiderman

I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.

— Daniel Ek

My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty waterless cookware.

— Zig Ziglar

I used to be a window cleaner. I got fired because I sometimes liked to drink the soapy water.

— Jamelia

I was a fixer, a builder - an inventor - ever since I can remember.

— Tom Scholz

Everything that works in sales has been done already. Just keep track of the crap that you buy, or the awesome stuff that you buy, and decide what was the trigger, and then just sell to people like you. It's really that easy - and that's what I do.

— Tim Ferriss

I'm working on inventing an aerosol spray that repels papparazi. I haven't perfected it but when I do I will make millions.

— Josh Duhamel

✗Opposing Perspectives

I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.'

— Quincy Jones