Elise Stefanik Quotes

Ambitious parents need more flexibility in how, where, and when they work, including the ability to work less or even not at all for a period. Equally important, they will need employers … who don’t view this kind of a zig-zag career path as a lack of commitment or professionalism.

I want to be able to manipulate and control my career from the creative side.

I'm happy with my career and I'm not going to have the trouble of being typecast.

Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.

I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.

I wanted to figure out a way of living where I didn't have to be in an office every day.

If I didn't want to work for a couple of years, I wouldn't have to-it's a great feeling, to know I'm doing it because I want to do it.

If I don't work for a while, I don't work for a while.

I realized I didn't need to go to work every day. I could work for the pleasure and the challenge, not for the mortgage payment.

I've finally reached a stage in my career where I can do what I want.

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

I love the fact that I don't have a real job!

What I don't underestimate is everybody's deal is different and everybody's deal makes it difficult. And so it is incumbent upon employers to create flexible work environments that allow people to fulfill their professional and personal lives in a way that works for themselves.

I'd go anywhere to work, so long as it's worth it.

I think we should be able to work until we want to stop, which is what I'm going to have to do.

I've reached a point in my career when I can demand certain conditions, and one of them is a weekend break every three weeks during the shoot.

Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.

The women themselves say they're far more likely to care about flexibility. The men say, 'I'm far more likely to care about money.'

We were advised that nobody could stop us from pursuing our craft simply because we had honed, or even developed that craft while working at a company.

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.

There are actors who aren't on the cover of magazines but still decide what work they want and when they want it. I want a family one day. So I dream of really being able to decide when to work and when not to.

Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along.

There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.

People really do think they have to choose between high stress and high reward jobs, and low stress and low reward jobs.

I never thought I want to do anything, really, except not go to work properly and turn up at the same place every day and eat sandwiches in the same canteen, if I can possibly help it, as I don't think I'd be very good at it.