Freddy Adu Quotes

Fresh out of college, you tend to join a company because it's a job. But, you tend to stay because it becomes a career; you start to feel at home. In the beginning of your career, you're focused on you: 'I like this place because I'm doing rewarding work; they take good care of me; the people are nice; there's runway for me,' etc.

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

Men and women want to do a good job, and if they are provided the proper environment, they will do so.

The places I've worked in the past, I always stayed three years and moved on.

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.

If you're working for a good company and you're happy there, and you're being compensated accordingly, and your work satisfies you, you should stay there.

There's ups and downs of any job. If you worked at the post office, there's ups and downs. You have your good days, and you have your bad days. If you're a housewife, you have your good days, and you have your bad days.

I don't believe in careers. I believe in work. I'm not interested in some 'big picture that would be really good for me'.

I've been really lucky that I've kind of gotten to flow from project to project, because I find it's very important that when you're on a project, you are so invested in it.

My life is not very different from what it was 20 years ago. In fact, my career hasn't changed much since I was 22.

You don't have to start with your dream job, and your idea of what the dream job might be will change during a working life that will have its share of ups and downs, setbacks and advances.

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

My only intention is to just have a little bit more success so that my career is easier and I don't have to work so hard just to get a job.

I think that it's a myth that there's one job that makes your whole career, unless you're winning an Oscar. But even that doesn't work for some people.

I'd go anywhere to work, so long as it's worth it.

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'm not in the type of work where you should rest.

I can see my work as a job. I do it for money. I likely already look forward to the weekend on Thursdays. And I probably will need a hobby as a leveling mechanism. In a career, I'm definitely more engaged. But at the same time, there will be periods when I think, 'Is all that really hard work really worth my while?'

I'm probably satisfied with my career 80 percent of the time.

I have a very difficult, high-pressured job. Everyone knows how challenging it is to balance family responsibilities with a job that takes me across the country and working extremely hard.

One of the reasons that I'm still in the military - or I stayed in the military - is because I think the military has been a place where certainly people could improve, advance, and were treated fairly.

I still feel I'm doing the same work I've always done.

I don't have a great deal of stress job-wise in my life, and that feels good.

I work hard. I work 80-90 hours a week in part-time football.

People really do think they have to choose between high stress and high reward jobs, and low stress and low reward jobs.