Andrea Mitchell Quotes

I think it's like any other job. If you want an extension as a reporter or a media guy or whatever you want to do, I think you are going to open up your ears to talking about a raise or whatever it might be. I'm in the same position.

After years of working on books, I eventually took a more business-oriented job, for the same sorts of reasons that most people take most new jobs: fancier title, higher pay, opportunities for advancement.

If salary is your most important consideration, make sure you don't take too much time off beyond the allotted 12-14 weeks of maternity leave - and certainly don't leave altogether.

I wanted to be a columnist so badly that I took a huge pay cut to leave Forbes, which wouldn't give me a column, and join Newsday, which wanted my column for its Sunday business section.

At the bare minimum, you need to be in your position for a year before you ask for a raise or title change.

Unions do have a proper role in negotiating for employees and advising employees, but they have to engage with the employer.

I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.

I've reached a point in my career when I can demand certain conditions, and one of them is a weekend break every three weeks during the shoot.

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 never would have given up my work to stay home.

I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way.

At the beginning it wasn't to do with the work, it was more the experience.

Private sector labors unions continue to suffer losses in their membership while public sector and service unions grow.

I did something a lot of people will have to do in this economy if they want to eventually land their dream job. I turned down an offer to take a high-paying position in another field because it wouldn't fulfill me.

It's hard to have a career.

You would think that when someone accepts a position with a company, they would assume that their life will be better off because they have that job rather than a different one.

If I were going to stay in coaching, I would have stayed right there because I was totally happy.

I don't want to play fat cops for the rest of my life.

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.

I try not to and I don't think I ever have just jumped at any opportunity because a company wanted me. Just because there was money on the table doesn't mean that I took it.

Go work at the post office or Starbucks if you want balance in your life.

Work is valued by the social value of the worker.

I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.

What we need to be able to do is count all human experience. So I would like to count the secretarial positions as good training places to take over the jobs of the bosses.

I want a new contract. I'm happy at United and I see my future here.