Jaleel White Quotes

I highly recommend getting your career established first and then having children.

I think my children know that Mother's priority is to be with them first. But I don't think it has to be an either/or situation. Work is very important to me, and it wouldn't be in the best interest of my children for me to stay home seven days a week.

I had the option of building a career in the U.S. Many of my friends who went at the time did not come back, but for me, building the family business and being with family was worth it. I became a general manager within four months, as I used my education to improve productivity and output.

Having a career is a bit like navigating an Atlantic crossing - you have to make sure everything is keeping and is balanced.

Just as Parkinson's isn't a big topic of conversation in my house, neither is my career.

The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!

I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of the big, happy family I grew up in. I wanted happy people having fun.

My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!

These girls come; they last one season; they're completely used up and dried out and sent back home. That's not how to make a life. I want a girl to come in knowing full well what she's getting into and being able to deal and make decisions that will create a career.

I didn't realize I was working in a family medium.

I love my family, but I don't think they think about my career a lot or nuffin.

I keep my family involved in all business.

It's a good idea to have your career intact and then have children.

I want time for my career, my kids, and my partner.

I've never been that career conscious.

My mom is my manager and handles day-to-day business to keep the DeGarmo machine up and running! She's a huge, huge part of my career and my life.

Salman doesn't even know half the time what I'm working on. Sometimes, he only gets to know about a film of mine when the release date is close. We don't sit down and discuss our professional lives with each other.

I think it's important to be thinking about your personal life and your family not just when you've retired but also during your career.

I am an entrepreneur. Beyond that, I am a mother and part of a wonderful family that is part of a wonderful business.

It's quite funny. I grew up with my mother: as a designer, she was always working, and I actually used to say to her, 'Whatever you do, never leave me your business.'

I don't want to take anything that's coming in for the sake of work. I want to choose carefully, as I have done since leaving 'EastEnders.'

It's been a process of evolving within a family company to get the autonomy I now have from a boss like my father. If you're sitting there waiting for a pat on the back, you're going to be waiting a long time.

When my children look and ask about what I do, they know I'm the boss.

My focus has to be on my career.

God doesn't give us crying, pooping children because he wants to advance our careers.