Mike Rowe
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.Collection: Country
Happiness comes from knowing what you truly value, and behaving in a way that's consistent with those beliefs.Collection: Knowing
What you do, who you’re with, and how you feel about the world around you, is completely up to you.Collection: Up To You
Anything worth doing hurts a little.Collection: Hurt
Dirt used to be a badge of honor. Dirt used to look like work. But we've scrubbed the dirt off the face of work and consequently we've created this suspicion of anything that's too dirty.Collection: Dirty
Not all knowledge comes from college.Collection: College
Why does a chicken coop only have two doors? ... Because if it had four doors, it would be a chicken sedan.Collection: Doors
Don't follow your passion, but always bring it with you.Collection: Passion
Short-cuts lead to long delays.Collection: Cutting
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.Collection: Jobs
People with dirty jobs are happier than you think. As a group, they're the happiest people I know.Collection: Jobs
It’s about, when did it make sense to say one size fits everybody? It never ever ever made sense to do that, and yet we’re still selling education the same way we sold it when you and I were in high school.Collection: School
The search for truth in cyberspace will take you through the wormhole, and there's nothing on the other side but pedants and nitpickers and bottomless ambiguity. If you're not careful, you'll spend all your time proving everything and understanding nothing.Collection: Understanding
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.Collection: Mother
Innovation without imitation is a complete waste of time.Collection: Innovation
There's really not a difference between an octopus and, like, a giant pile of snot.Collection: Differences
Michael Brown and Eric Garner died because they got into a confrontation that could have been easily avoided. That's what made their deaths so tragic.Collection: Eric
Nobody makes a turd like that and lives.Collection: Turds
I rarely do anything on the show by myself. I dont want it to be about me. Squatting in the sewer in San Francisco, its really hot, were up to our knees in a river of crap. Rats and cockroaches are all over. I would never, ever walk into that environment, except for the fact that the guy who does it every day is squatting next to me.Collection: Rivers
Some jobs are just too hideous to contemplate.Collection: Jobs
It's funny; it's a real balancing act. In TV, everybody's talking about authenticity. In order to make 'Dirty Jobs' authentic, I really can't be overly informed. The minute I am, I become a host It's a very tricky business paying a tribute to work, because TV is very bad at it.Collection: Jobs
I'm allergic to rocks hitting me in the face.Collection: Rocks
Im a B-list celebrity trying to give it an honest look. They see me do actual work. ... I try to be the viewer with a microphone.Collection: Giving