Kathryn Minshew Quotes

Walk away from anyone who is unduly focused on vacation and compensation. It's a sign of potential trouble. No matter how talented you are, if you don't really want to work at TOMS, you'll never work out here.

If you put someone in a job who is thinking for even a moment about the next job, you have the wrong person.

I still take way more jobs than I turn down, and the reason that I turn down a job is that I just can't find anything in it that charges me or excites me or challenges me about moving to the next phase of where I'm headed.

A career is a job you love, right? That's what a career should be. If you're in a job that you hate, you should quit. That's the way I look at it. I'm in a job that I love, so I'm going to make it my career.

How many people do you know who love their jobs? Did your dad love his job? Was he passionate about it? Because I am. I love it. I love the relationships. I love teaching. I love the competition. I love everything about it.

If you love your job the way I do and the way we do as a team and what we want to achieve, you have to love every aspect of it.

Originally, I was an assistant director. For many people in that role, becoming a director is the ultimate goal. But, in my case, that wasn't my goal at all. I just had fun doing it. The schedule was hard, but I enjoyed it greatly so I just kept at it.

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 love what I do; I want to continue doing it, I work hard at my job.

I do not believe in taking jobs just because the job is available. You have to want to do that job, and you should plan to be there for a while.

Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.

My entire career, I've been a worker.

I don't work at something because I think it's important. I work at things that, to me, are interesting.

That's part of the reason Rex drafted me, because I value this job. It's my life. If somebody wanted to take that away from me, it's personal.

I care about the work I do. But I'm not going to say that money's not an issue.

You have to be engaged, or else you're not going to want to show up and go to work.

Pay attention to those employees who respectfully ask why. They are demonstrating an interest in their jobs and exhibiting a curiosity that could eventually translate into leadership ability.

Whatever title you want to lay on me is fine. I am still working; you know what I'm saying?

I always enjoy the job and the work that I do, because that's the condition that I attach in accepting any job. This way, I can really work and dedicate myself to the institution for achieving the goal which I believe is a noble one.

The whole point of taking a job is that you connect with a character or with an issue.

The last time I had a job that wasn't an acting job was '88, and I'm quite proud of that.

You have to look at why people come and work at Nest. Part of it is that a lot of people here already know each other, but we're also on a mission with a purpose. People are personally motivated by energy or safety.

I've been wondering for a while now if the CEO role is one that I want - and the one that I'm best at.

I won't give up my day job of design.

Our people are excited about building solutions, and it's rewarding to see how much fun Netscape employees have doing something they think is relevant and important.