Michelle Obama Quotes

If you put someone in a job who is thinking for even a moment about the next job, you have the wrong person.

Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.

And every job that I had was a stepping stone to my next job and I never quit my job until I had my next job. And so opportunities look a lot like work.

I think anyone who has a job in the entertainment industry that is ongoing and then decides they get bored and doesn't want to do it anymore is foolish!

A productive employee who is kept busy working at his or her job is far more likely to be happy at that job and less likely to look for employment elsewhere.

It would be great if firefighters across the country had the guarantee that they would be making enough money to support their family right from the get-go, but that's not the case.

I don't think I would have stayed for the second season if I hadn't been happy.

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.

I won't give up my day job of design.

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

I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.

Careers don't seem to be built up in the same way as they were in the 80s.

Maybe someday I'll have a job where it haunts me or it's hard to move on.

People change jobs much more often, and therefore, companies, on average, invest less in employee development.

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

I would like to keep working forever. As long as they will have me.

For my family, for my loved ones, my priority is to have a job and perform.

During childbearing years, changing jobs - even for a fundamentally better gig - can be a very bad idea. Those prime childbearing years - mid-twenties to early forties - overlap precisely with prime professional years. This is when employees are most attractive to new employers, when they should be able to zip up ladders with the most alacrity.

I think when it comes to re-signing with an organisation, there's no real compromise if you're trying to move on.

I would love to stay at one position.

I feel that whoever isn't feeling settled in their career won't think about their marriage.

I joke that I stick with the job because it covers my insurance, but the reality is that my career has always been very important to me.

If enough Americans determine I could do a better job in public office, and Mrs. Nugent and my beloved family agree, there is no limit what I am willing to do for my country.

We ask our men and women in uniform to leave their families, our guardsmen and reservists to leave their jobs. We ask you to fight, to sacrifice, to risk your lives for your country. The last thing you should have to do is fight for a job when you come home.

All too often we say of a man doing a good job that he is indispensable. A flattering canard, as so many disillusioned and retired and fired have discovered when the world seems to keep on turning without them. In business, a man can come nearest to indispensability by being dispensable in his current job. How can a man move up to new responsibilities if he is the only one able to handle his present tasks? It matters not how small or large the job you now have, if you have trained no one to do it as well, you're not available; you've made your promotion difficult if not impossible.