Kiersey Clemons Quotes

I'm not interested in the mad race. I just like working with good people.

I have always said to myself, 'I never want to say I'm leaving a job because I want to spend more time with my family.' I feel sorry for people when they say that. But my advice to them is that you shouldn't have taken the job in the first place.

Don't make career choices on short-term financial gain. Job satisfaction and career enjoyment are far more important.

My career has mostly been jobs I love or cases where I needed money.

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 have always been very choosy, but as you grow older, your tolerance for crap becomes less. The role I will do today has to justify the time I take away from my kids and my husband. I love them, spend a lot of time with them and love doing things for them. So to go away for three to six months, I need something equally powerful.

We must make working life more human.

I'd like to find great roles close to home and work on great projects while staying near my family. My family's the most important thing to me right now.

There's a level of ease that comes with working in Australia that can be missed working in other places.

People don't value strongly enough how much time they spend in the office. Imagine you could work with people you love - wouldn't work be great and staff turnover be lower? And your productivity higher?

Because I'm not ambitious it's not paramount for me to find myself in a high-paid job.

I like working. I like getting up every morning and going somewhere. Where I do it or what form doesn't matter.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

I hate the school of thought that says work is work and that you have to be unhappy at work because that's what work is. I totally respect the fact that not everyone has the choices that I have, and that some people have to work jobs that they don't like because they don't have any other options.

It's not just hours and pay that are important anymore. People want to know what the company is like, what the culture is.

Know your career values: Not your parents' values, not your friends', but what you personally value in work. For me, it's things like moving quickly and scrappily, ownership and authority over my work, and flexibility.

I'm a big believer in picking your boss, not the job. Great people create great jobs.

I have always enjoyed my work and have chosen only what I thought was interesting by way of a role.

Being out at work in L.A. is the nicest place to be. You don't get depressed because of the sun shining every day. I love it there.

To kill yourself for earning a salary is not worth it.

We need better corporate environments. We need better workplaces everywhere.

My career is my whole life, so if I'm not happy with that, it affects everything else.

I'll work as long as I can. I'm happy with my life.

I encourage others to choose a career they are passionate about and can do for the rest of their lives.

The right people don't care about a corner office - they care about the culture, if you're mission-driven, what you're going to do to make the world a better place.