Donald Rumsfeld Quotes

It’s hard to have a better job than the government, where you really do have an opportunity to have a broad reaching impact. Very few private sector jobs are going to offer you that.

While the women of the older generation were thankful if only they succeeded in obtaining 'a work and a duty,' however monotonous and wearing it might be, the will of the younger generation for a pleasurable labour has fortunately increased.

I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

I would rather have a job where I can look up in the table, not downwards.

I'd go anywhere to work, so long as it's worth it.

The women themselves say they're far more likely to care about flexibility. The men say, 'I'm far more likely to care about money.'

I don't lobby where work is concerned. As long as I know I've got something coming up, I don't really worry. It's not that I'm not ambitious, but I don't have a drive to be hugely successful and be working all the time.

I'm happy with my career and I'm not going to have the trouble of being typecast.

Men and women want to do a good job, and if they are provided the proper environment, they will do so.

There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.

We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.

People really do think they have to choose between high stress and high reward jobs, and low stress and low reward jobs.

I know I'll always work. In what form, it really doesn't matter.

I never thought I want to do anything, really, except not go to work properly and turn up at the same place every day and eat sandwiches in the same canteen, if I can possibly help it, as I don't think I'd be very good at it.

I don't care where I have to go for work. I just care that it's a good project. That's what I want.

Management don't really have any problem at all with firing people. It's a powerful idea that, If I'm not happy, I'll quit. I'll try something else!

A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it.

I can't imagine not working, really. I just think work's more fun than fun.

I'd like to just work - steadily work - and do parts that I enjoy doing.

Good jobs look a lot like kids playing and adults working.

I said to my agent, 'I want short, sharp, well-paid jobs because I haven't got time for anything else.'

My job is discouraging in the extreme—it often tempts me to quit the helm in despair.

The caliber of talent attracted to the public service will depend in substantial measure upon the excitement that can be conveyed by presidential leadership.

People want the dignity of work.

It's a good idea to get out while they still want you.