Greg Moore Quotes

Few great men would have got past personnel.

Clothes are a kind of uniform. A nun's habit, a surgeon's scrubs, a cop's uniform. People often say that when they put on a certain uniform, they actually think of themselves differently.

People say, 'Dress for the job you want,' and since I wanted a job that guys had, I dressed like a guy.

The changing economic situation, the changing global market means it is understandable that employers are constantly raising the bar. It is challenging the education system to come up with ever higher standards to meet the expectation of employers.

No one in my writers' room can wear sweatpants.

The way I dress, I dress totally different than I did when I was in college. I have to - try to - look professional. You change a lot when you are in the NBA, but I know where I came from.

Showing your femininity should help your career and not go against your career. Dressing like a man, using the suit to look powerful - that was the '80s, and that didn't help women.

Men turn to formal wear when they want a new job or when they think their current one is in danger. They try to present themselves as powerful and successful.

It is important to dress for success.

I'm convinced that had I not changed my name, I don't think I would have had quite the same career curve that I eventually had.

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Just because you work in the fashion industry, it doesn't mean you live your life in fashion.

The biggest downside of my current job is that I have to wear a suit to work. Wearing uncomfortable clothes on purpose is an example of what former Princeton hockey player and Nobel Prize winner Michael Spence taught economists to call 'signaling.'

It’s harder and harder to get a job if you just have a strong back. You need an education.

So you want this fucking job.

You've got to be qualified. The problem with all the affirmative action laws is that if you have been sufficiently discriminated against in education and training then you can't take advantage of the law because you're not qualified to hold the job.... If you can't show that you're qualified the employer doesn't have to hire you.

We know that a college degree is rapidly becoming the price of admission to the global economy.

There are real tricks to getting a job that I just don't like or understand - it feels too close to pandering. I've tried it, but it doesn't work.

Employers are looking for individuals who can tell a story about what they bring to a particular company, and people with an understanding of that have a much better chance of getting to where they want to go.

A word of advice: your interview is about you. It's not about the school you went to, what you majored in, what your GPA was, or who your parents happen to be or know. Most of that stuff is right on your resume, and it might even have gotten you into the room, but it won't get you much farther.

My real last name is Flores, and Milian is actually my mom's maiden name. So it's not made up, which is cool; it runs in the family. And it actually worked out better for my career to have the last name Milian, because Flores kept me in a little box, and no one really associated me with the last name Flores.

When hiring somebody, I never ask to see a curriculum vitae. I feel that since I didn't have one myself, it would be a bit presumptuous to ask to see anyone else's.

I've never really hired anybody that people thought I should hire.

That's the nature of the business. If you're not doing the job good enough then they're looking to replace you.

Job applications are an aesthetic event. They are performance art. They are not about proving you are smart - well, maybe your writing sample does that, but even then, the main point is to get an interview.