Career-Oriented Quotes

I enjoyed playing someone who is a professional, intelligent, defined by her work and not her role as a wife or mother.

My dad is a workaholic so I take after him in this respect.

I am very selfish when it comes to work, and I only care about work.

It's important to be driven and have goals. You want an independent woman who knows what she wants and isn't afraid to go after it. It's attractive to me when a woman is doing what she loves. It makes me want to know more.

Beaches and romantic comedies are not my thing. I'm a workaholic.

I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.

I am an independent girl. I always put my work first in my priority.

I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure.

I haven't got a family. I live to work.

I'm never going to be a woman who doesn't work.

I'm not into clubbing. I want to be known for my work.

I like to work - I probably work too much.

I respond to women who have their stuff together, who are in charge, who don't need men to do things for them. I want a woman to have her own thing, you know? My wife is very smart. She's got a doctorate degree; she's got her own career going. She doesn't need me to take care of her.

I have a job to do. ... If you think right now I give a damn about presidential politics, then you don't know me.

My customers are successful workingwomen.

He is loyal to his own career but only incidentally to anything or anyone else.

Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.

I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.

I don't really see myself as a socialite or as a 'child of someone.' I'd rather be working than going to fashion parties all the time.

I do sense, as compared with let's say the early '50s, there's somewhat more of a careerism. I don't think it's anything special to economics; it's equally true with physics or biology. A graduate education has become a more career-oriented thing, and part of that is because of the need for funding. In fact, that's a much worse problem in the natural sciences than it is in economics. So you can't even do your work in the natural sciences, particularly, and even to some extent in economics, without funding.

I have one weakness. I don't like vacations. I like to work.

I think we've all worked with that person at the office who takes themselves and their job so seriously.

There's time for a boyfriend in my life. But he would have to be understanding. He would have to understand that often I will be travelling and playing.

I've never been a social bunny. I thrive on work.

I was easygoing in terms of being adaptable in my social life. But maybe I suffered a personality change in the mid-'60s and became more dedicated to things involving work because it had become successful in some way.