Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

I'm delighted to be returning to my California roots and joining Google.

Working for the Man seemed really good to me.

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.

And as part of my activity there, he had indicated he wanted me to work with him on that and conduct the various technical tests. And so a few months later I moved from Southern California up to the Monterey Peninsula where I still live today.

I've always found a way to make my way, and now I've had the fortune of being hired by a great company - Chrysler Corporation - one of the original Big Three.

My smartest move was joining Google. It wasn't obvious at the time that it would be a good decision. A lot of people, many of my friends, advised me against it.

As an employee, you can't work for someone forever.

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.

I'm not going to sit here and be stupid. If someone comes and offers me double what I'm on, of course I'm going to sit down and seriously look at it.

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

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?

'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.

Whether you're working in corporate America or you're a journalist, construction worker, a teacher or an actor - we're all trying to keep working. If one job is ending, you look for another job. When 'Psych' ends, I will be looking for another job.

I came to Houston for a job, the reason most people move halfway across the country with a first grader and a five-week-old. I came here to teach at Rice.

The only way to make money as a manager is to win in one place, get fired and hired somewhere else.

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.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

There had been talk about me getting involved with the new team in Houston. I don't know if it's something that will become a realization, but it would be something that I would love to do.

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

I've never had a job in my life that I was better than. I was always just lucky to have a job. And every job I had was a steppingstone to my next job, and I never quit my job until I had my next job.

After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month.

These days we seem more bound to our bosses than ever before. We even identify our own selves with the jobs we do: 'What do you do?' is the first question we ask each other at parties, as if a job title could express a fundamental truth about our personality.

I want to work, so I'm going where the work is.

I knew if I wanted to be a general manager, I was going to have to leave to work for another organization.

It was the best job I ever had. I just left because my whole team was leaving and the new guys were coming.