Apprentice Quotations

My first published novel, 'American Rust,' took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that.

We need women to go through apprentice programs. I've seen women who did, and who are now highly trained electricians and welders. These are jobs that women are capable of doing.

I don't pretend to be a digital savant or even a digital apprentice.

I wish Donald nothing but the best for Apprentice 2 and I hope it does just as well as his casinos do. You don't come after dogs, you don't come after kids and you don't come after The Hair.

I feel you have to dress for the part, even in Hawaii where aloha shirts are common. This is still The Apprentice and I feel you must dress for success.

China's apprentice period must now come to a close, and China must act as a fully accountable participant and beneficiary in the international trading system. China must find a way to pursue its own self-interest while also adhering to, and helping to shape, the policies and institutions that under gird its own prosperity and the prosperity of its trading partners.

If Survivor has the jungle and The Apprentice has that feel of Manhattan, we want our show to have the feel of Main Street, USA. It's a refreshing slice of life, once we get there.

There is no apprentice program. No one is getting hired. No one comes out of school wanting to be a machinist. The job market is horrendous, absolutely horrendous.

There is no bigger promotional platform than the Olympics. I'm honored that NBC is utilizing one of its most cherished and powerful assets to help drive buzz for The Apprentice brand. This promotion marks the first time I've ever invited the public to select a cast member for one of my shows.

It did not occur to me that I might be a writer until I flunked out of my first year as a chemistry major, and found work as an apprentice writer of Volkswagen ads.

Over the past four seasons of The Apprentice , Donald Trump has used the final episode to hire candidates with advice only from George and Carolyn. This year we thought it would be interesting to discover what America has to say about the candidates, incorporating our fans and viewers as virtual judges. While Trump will still be the final arbiter of who he hires, America's feedback is certain to have an impact on his decision.

The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.

During the course of my career, I have been shoulder to shoulder with some impressive, powerful people, none more so than Martha Stewart. The world knows of her unsurpassed creativity, but to sit with her in any room, to watch her in action, reasoning, listening, making decisions, is to understand how bright she is, how good she is at the business of being Martha Stewart. What sitting with Martha and Alexis in the conference room of The Apprentice demonstrates is how much fun she is too. Being on The Apprentice ' with the Stewart ladies, has been a highlight of my professional life.

The PGA of America is proud of the commitment of its apprentice professionals, as they have achieved a foothold in our Association, and we are equally pleased that Acushnet recognizes the importance of these individuals by continuing a commitment to the scholarship program. Acushnet is a longtime partner to PGA Professionals, and its dedication to them underscores our Association's commitment to the training and education of the next generation of golf's leaders.

I'm a working-class former apprentice electrician; at the age of 14, if you'd told me I would one day be standing on a stage with Mel Brooks, I'd have thought you were off your head. But these things can happen.

I'm telling you, this will be a much better facility with the Apprentice School having larger involvement,

(The contestants are) going to get real business lessons, real business advice and, day in and day out, tasks that are difficult and challenging and they're going to be aware of what it takes to be an apprentice at Martha Stewart Living.

It was like an apprentice having his first ride.

After college, I went to Alley Theatre in Houston to work in their apprentice actor program. I thought I was gonna get discovered. It didn't happen. I moved back to Germantown, Tennessee, outside of Memphis, and taught at my old high school.

Every one is free to become whatever he can make of himself; free to transform himself from a rail splitter or a tanner or a canal-boy, into the nation's President. Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers. Wealth, position, influence, are prizes offered for energy; and every farmer's boy, every apprentice and clerk, every friendless and penniless immigrant, is free to enter the lists.

I think there was confusion between Martha's Apprentice and mine. And mine continues to do well and, as you know, the other one has struggled very severely. I think it probably hurt mine, and I sort of predicted that it would.

When you win the World Series, like we did with The Apprentice , you don't make too many changes. The big change is always the cast.

There have been 11 copies of The Apprentice and every one of them has failed,

In business, when things aren't working it's time to mix it up - The Apprentice