Shirley MacLaine Quotes

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.

Your job, what you do every day, I think it takes a high priority over anything. That was something I dedicated myself to throughout my career.

I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else.

Work is like the rest of life. The best parts are free.

I think we should be able to work until we want to stop, which is what I'm going to have to do.

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

My life is very much consumed with work.

I'm not a career woman.

I said to myself, 'I've waited a long time in my life to have a child, and I'm missing it, I want to continue to have a career, but not this way.'

I hope Pinterest is my last job.

I was always very clear when I took some time out to start a family that I wanted to come back and get my teeth into something and of course I could not work for Toto or a competing manufacturer.

Where people work and their environment is becoming more and more important, especially for millennials.

Anytime you want to take time off from a job that millions of brothers work so hard to get here, that's not being humble.

If I'd done 'Top Gear,' I would have had to have left my job, and I've got the best job in the world. To do 'Top Gear' and do it properly would mean leaving work, and I can't. I don't want to leave work.

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.

There was this saying in GCHQ that, if you didn't leave after five years, you stay there for life. It was always my intention to leave before five years.

In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like teaching and computer programming.

You don't choose. I just go where the work is.

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

I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.

I've reached a point in my career when I can demand certain conditions, and one of them is a weekend break every three weeks during the shoot.

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.

But most is all to do with work. There are aspects of work that are enjoyable, that you could call a hobby.

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.

Finally, I told them I'd drop out of the management program if they'd give me an entry-level job in the newsroom for union wages, about fifty dollars a week.