Sloane Stephens Quotes

Hopefully I won't be the last big splash at Under Armour.

I love working for Disney! They are my family.

The tendency in lots of large organizations is to try and find a comfortable place where you think you can get measured rewards for measured work.

Any good business is a hobby. We have an integrated company culture, and I can honestly say that many people who come here to work make Yandex a central part of their lives.

In talking to founder after founder; I've heard almost visceral reactions to working for companies, even very cool ones with great things to work on and lots of opportunity, like Facebook, Google, or consulting firms.

Working at a big company sucks - avoid it. Smaller companies are 10 times better for learning.

For a long time, I was a career woman and that was it.

Let's be honest - you work at a big company because it's comfortable. You don't have to work 80 hours per week, and you get paid, have nice benefits, and the family is all happy.

Research indicates that employees have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.

The one thing that people don't get about GE is that, to the people who work here, it's not a company. It's not just a job. You feel like you're part of a 120-year-old ever-growing, ever-improving family.

Good jobs look a lot like kids playing and adults working.

If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.

Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get - they probably don't have the mission in their souls.

I don't think this business encourages you to be present. This is a business that's always pushing you to think about your next thing.

There's a dance happening on both sides of the table. Individuals are giving their personal and career values a lot more weight when it comes to finding a company that aligns with both. At the same time, companies are becoming a lot more transparent about their core values as an organization and the types of people they want to attract.

I'm at a place where I want to have fun. I want to be challenged. I want to love the people I work with and continue to appreciate being in the position to work and play and explore.

'Office Space' I loved doing.

My fear was of being offered a job that would be kind of a full-time position at a veterans organization or even in the government... I'd prefer to not be that, to come up the Beltway every day.

I want people to concentrate not on my job but on their jobs.

I don't ever want to have a job where I just punch a clock.

There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.

At the risk of being glib, I would say if you really want to make America great again, you have to make work cool again.

I worked in investment banking for two years. I was in a program where they kind of just owned you. And you - I didn't realize that I've signed up for that, which was one of the problems. I didn't know anybody who'd done this.

One of the most amazing things about my job is that I have arguably, maybe not even arguably - definitively - the best boss on the planet. Shonda Rhimes is the best.

If I've only got a career if I bring David Brent back, you can have it.