Kamala Harris Quotes

I won't be making any friends in the corporate suites.

It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.

If the boss is a jerk, get over it. First of all, don't you think there's a good chance that your boss's boss knows what's going on? If so, just keep your head down and do the work. Usually, if you put in maximum effort and produce excellent results, someone in the company is going to take notice. Either you will get promoted or your jerky boss will get the heave-ho. It happens all the time.

There are lots of women and lots of men in the business that the powers that be decide are the right people and they'll stand with them for quite a long time.

I'd be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers.

I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you.

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

I think we've all worked with that person at the office who takes themselves and their job so seriously.

After college, I went to San Francisco and worked as a secretary in a reinsurance company. That was a pretty dismal job. It was a real small place. Guys would come in, and they'd sort of stick out their arms like wings so I could take their coats off. They'd tell me, 'Two,' and I'd put two lumps of sugar in their coffee.

One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

I came to Playboy not expecting to stay. But after five years, I found myself really enjoying the business world, and I realized I had some skill.

Office life is very, very strange. It's like no other way of living. You have an intimacy with people who you work with in the office, yet if you meet them on the streets, you both look the other way because you're embarrassed.

I worked for Xerox for 4 years and after that I knew I was never going to be a corporate person. It wasn't my environment.

The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.

The show is called 'The Office,' and while it focuses on the people, the architecture of the space is very important.

Technology is a tough realm to navigate as a younger woman who is not married. It can be hard to cultivate professional relationships because you have to be conscious of how to engage potential investors.

I wasn't a shrinking violet when I joined Fox News. I didn't have any power at Fox - I had no power in the TV industry - but I had been a lawyer for nine years who had practiced employment law.

When I came to Yahoo! in 2012, I came because I really wanted to work hard. I thought it was a great challenge.

I would come to New York, work, and then get out of New York. I didn't go out to dinner with other people on the Management Committee. I didn't socialize. I didn't politick.

My husband works with Donald Trump's company as an employee.

The working environment in L.A. is really refreshing, really good. Because in Malaysia, it's a small country - you end up working with the same people that you like and that you know.

When it comes to nurturing professional relationships and developing a community, LinkedIn is one of the best resources.

You need to be really great at your job. You need a strong network of peers, and you need a strong network of mentors.

Take any job in a growing, exciting company. You'll learn so much.