Dominic Monaghan Quotes

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

I had a dozen years to act before starting a family, then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.

Employees, especially young people, want more than a paycheck.

You will find this hard to believe, but I've never laughed as much as I did when I was a corporate lawyer. When you're working 16 hours a day for months at a time, you get punchy. Everything and everyone seems hilarious.

I always thought that it's important to have other things, not just work, and I often even suggested my managers take some time off and come back fresh and ready to fight again.

I am very lucky that I get to go to work and laugh all day for my day job, and then go home and torture my artistic self.

A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.

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

I have earned enough money in my life. When I started my career, for about 10 years, I told myself I want to make money. Now, I just want to do different roles.

I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.

Life is just a set of experiences. As long as there are new experiences for me in a corporate job, I don't think I have to be an entrepreneur.

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.

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

I had a very good job in corporate America, but I quickly knew that was not how I was wired.

I love working for Disney! They are my family.

Working for the Man seemed really good to me.

I like the work that I get to do.

The one thing that people don't get about GE is that, to the people who work here, it's not a company. It's not just a job. You feel like you're part of a 120-year-old ever-growing, ever-improving family.

I saw a '60 Minutes' piece on Google as a place to work. It was such a foreign concept from what I understood as a regular job. There's free food, sleeping pods, Ping-Pong. I'm the kind of guy who likes to get involved in everything - I'd be all over the Ping-Pong.

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.

I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day.

In talking to founder after founder; I've heard almost visceral reactions to working for companies, even very cool ones with great things to work on and lots of opportunity, like Facebook, Google, or consulting firms.

Working at a big company sucks - avoid it. Smaller companies are 10 times better for learning.

It is no small thing that the juiciest and most complicated roles of my life have come post-having two children.

I don't ever want to have a job where I just punch a clock.