Ainsley Earhardt Quotes

I think a lot of women, especially ones that want to achieve career goals, tend to worry. I don't want anyone to worry their life away.

Thankfully I've been quite lucky in my career, but it's always good to re-evaluate things and think about what else you want to do.

My non-career. My excuse for a career? Honestly, I never think about the word 'career.' I've had managers, the minute they say it to me, they look at me and just roll their eyes.

One of my goals is to educate myself more as a woman in this business.

Whether it's salary or a promotion or a job, I think it's important for women to ask for what they think they deserve.

I meet so many business women who shy away from the limelight or hesitate to put themselves forward for promotion, despite the fact they are brilliant at their jobs.

I always urge women to aim for the highest job they can get because you get more money and you get more support and you get more control, and those are the three things that actually make life easier.

If our American women are going to work to put food on the table and pay for the mortgage, then we better make sure that they get put into jobs that pay well and that pay their worth. That's why I'm such a huge advocate about computing jobs, because those are the jobs.

What you hear and what the research shows is that gentlemen negotiate for their first job. Women do not negotiate from their first job and on. And I tell women there is no H.R. fairy godmother. There might be, but you better not count on it.

As individuals, we professional women need to learn how to raise our hands and ask for more throughout our careers.

The bosses can't read your mind, so I think women should tell them what they want out of their careers. And so I think that if you're just a good person, you work hard, you say 'yes,' and you are driven, you will eventually work your way to the top. At least, that's how it's been for me.

Since leaving DB, I have participated in many conferences and swish events that other financial institutions have held for their women's groups.

One of the main things I said in my job interview was that I want to develop female coaches.

If you'd asked me at the start of my career I would have said I was going to be a manager. I may still be in future, but there seemed to be an expectation it was a natural progression for me.

As a player I think you naturally think long term and think what is the schedule in the next year or so.

If you want to promote me, promote me.

During my eight years at Deutsche Bank, the bank ticked every box with the elite development programs, coaching, mission statements for the advancement of women - and I was proud to be a part of it.

I just want my career to be ran a certain way. When you get the sense it's not, that your voice is not being heard, then, unfortunately, you have to do certain things to make a stand to fight what you believe in, even if you do have to sacrifice time.

There are so many dramatic actors where I would give all of my anything to have their careers, but I don't think I can try to follow anyone.

I really don't have a specific idea of where I want my career to go, I just have an idea of wanting to continue to work and work on things that I like and think are good.

I have very high standards for myself and my career.

My career has been: first you have to prove yourself, then there's the sophomore record, then there's this thing and that thing, and you always want to be understood.

Ambition is not a four-letter word and women have to embrace that.

I have never taken my career seriously. My only ambition was to grow as an actor.

Too often when people think of their journey into leadership, they envision a career path. What they should be thinking about is their own leadership development!