Peddler Quotes (1)
If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.
According to Ralph Keyes, The Quote Verifier: Who Said What, Where, and When (2006), 53, on other occasions Einstein said 'he might rather have been a musician, or light-house keeper'; however it is a 'popular misquotation' that refers to being a watchmaker.
See also: | Biography (159) | Career (15) | Independence (4) | Plumber (4) | Scholar (9) | Scientist (78) | Teacher (26) | Youth (13)
