Patrick Pichette Quotes

A rule of thumb: If the company you work for provides a product or service that's pretty much the same as what was offered last year and a few years before that, it might be time to start looking for something new.

The time to realize that you need to transition out of your job is when you know that you've grown out of the role that you were doing before.

I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.

I'm definitely in a place where I'm looking for different than what I've done in the past, just so I can go to work and do something I haven't done before.

My first job was at Proctor and Gamble in Cincinnati, my second job was at a pharmaceutical company in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. My third job was at Palmolive. And I realized, three jobs in three years, maybe it wasn't the job. It had to be me.

I felt within myself that I needed to change what I was doing. I needed a new stimuli. So the interest from Manchester United was a perfect fit.

I'm excited about developing as a Diva and finding where my place is in this company.

CBS was very generous in their offer to re-sign me. But I simply want to try something new.

I'm just focused on exploring new opportunities.

There are a lot of new opportunities that are poking their head up in my future. I've been very fortunate that way, but for right now, what I like is what I'm doing.

Now I am ready to set new goals and start a new career for myself outside of the ring.

I don't think anyone wants to be in a role forever.

After graduating from college I worked at a variety of jobs, from banking to politics. I enjoyed whatever I was doing at the time but I didn't love my work.

All of my career has been an attempt to educate myself and get paid for it.

I don't play for job security.

I had a great ten years at Fox, but it's also been fun being a free agent.

Every job I take, I really want to learn something.

I feel like if you're stuck doing the same thing your whole career you've got to be doing something wrong. Unless you're getting great results from it or you're just comfortable in that spot.

When you get to a certain point in your career, it's easy to just phone it in, to get complacent. If you're not careful, you can stop challenging yourself.

You take the job, you learn from it, and you move on.

I always found new challenges in my career.

In reality, I'm very restless, and I get bored very easily. It's the same with my career: I need to outperform myself with every film.

When I came back to Hong Kong in 1992, I decided to pursue a new career challenge.

Be willing to take on career risks.

I've never run from a job; I've always run to another one.