Angela Yee Quotes

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.

The family's first, and the career is second. I could get fired from a show. As long as everything's okay with my family, it really would not bother me.

It is very difficult for any couple who are married if both people are ambitious. I don't know if it's just too hard to be married to a woman that wants to be a movie star.

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

In the eighties, we had the ladies who lunch, the power lunch - everything was power. At the beginning of the nineties, things changed.

Working for the Man seemed really good to me.

I thought that I'd have a briefcase-and-power-suit career.

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.

I had always been told cooking was a servant's job.

I don't mind being stereotyped as angry - it's good to have a job.

If I tell a man he needs to quit his soul-sucking job, he has to go home and fight with his wife or fight with his parents and fight with his in-laws and fight with everybody, because men aren't supposed to be happy; they're supposed to do well.

I went to college, grad school. I got an M.B.A., had a really cush corporate job. But I was just bored stiff. I didn't fit that mold.

That just seems like a tough thing to do... just work in the middle of a company for your entire life. You just do the same thing out of college until you're 60, and then you retire.

I'm a guy who never wanted to hold a steady job, because I was worried about the monotony.

Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work.

The thing about this business is you have to take the work while you can.

Most of us enter adult life with great ambitions for how we will start our own ventures, but the harshness of life wears us down. We settle into some job and slowly give in to the illusion that our bosses care about us and our future, that they spend time thinking of our welfare.

Both me and my parents wanted me to lead a normal life, work in a normal '10 to 5' job and put my education to good use.

I want to be a manager, it wouldn't scare me, but I also think you could be sacked in six months and you'd have to take the kids back to school with your tail between your legs.

I used to be nervous about not working and so would work for the sake of it.

Look, I just read out loud for a living. Most of my friends are doctors or lawyers, people I went to university with, they're on the train at 7 A.M. and don't get home until 7 P.M. They work bloody hard, and they're allowed to be overwhelmed. I don't think I'm allowed, really.

The reality of a long-term career is that there are ups and downs.

You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Black men, Indian men, and gay men have all have something in common: They do not provide an economic security blanket for women.