Corporate Job Quotes

I dated a guy and he liked me but I didn't like him. I went through his wardrobe and cleaned out his house and got him to get a new car. He said to me, 'If I give you $10,000, will you find me my wife because I want someone like you?' And within a year, he got married. That was the first match that led to me leaving my corporate job.

One of my first memories of being a kid was, 'I want to have a real job when I grow up.' And to me that meant you wear a suit and a hat and carry a briefcase and go to your job.

I stayed back in Delhi for a year-and-a-half while I was working in the corporate sector. My office was in Qutab Institutional Area, and I used to live in CR Park at that point.

I had a working mother. She worked for IBM. My dad lived in another town - not very far away, but another town. So food was - I guess food was my friend.

I did almost every job in the bank. It was real life, waking up in the morning, putting on a suit and tie and then having to go to work.

You're perceived as being a success if you find a job in some big city and work with hundreds of other people and draw a paycheck every month.

I worked for Xerox for 4 years and after that I knew I was never going to be a corporate person. It wasn't my environment.

Working for the Man seemed really good to me.

In high school, I worked at Abercrombie & Fitch, and once I graduated from business school at USC, I started a company with my partner and had a nine-to-seven job.

I felt that working at an office from the early morning was impossible for me. Anyway, I wanted to be free from that lifestyle as soon as possible. I wanted to take it easy.

If you are good enough to compete for a top-level corporate job, you should be smart enough to know what the job pays the other gender and negotiate accordingly. If you are an employer, and you don't pay an employee market wages, regardless of gender or orientation, you will end up with what you deserve.

I was a business major at the University of Richmond, and after I graduated, I took a job at a corporate ad agency. I had comedic dreams, but I also had a realistic look at what I had to do when I left school: maybe I'm funny, but maybe I'm one of a hundred thousand funny people, you know?

I went to college, got a job. Not a good job or anything but I was fully set to be an office employee for my life.

Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.

I've been on the other side where I know that a bad day at WWE beats the best day at Staples.

When I graduated from college, I got a 9-to-5 traditional job doing social media for a company, and I'd spend all day long fighting with the system of getting things approved and the fact that social media has such a quick turnaround. Things had to be very reactive and instant.

I had a very good job in corporate America, but I quickly knew that was not how I was wired.

I know it's a cliche, but I didn't want to work in an office.

In talking to founder after founder; I've heard almost visceral reactions to working for companies, even very cool ones with great things to work on and lots of opportunity, like Facebook, Google, or consulting firms.

I am a family man. The only difference between me and others is that while they work in corporate offices, I am an actor. I, too, like to go back home after work. I don't mind stopping to pick up groceries.

I worked as a trainee manager for two years after leaving university - then got bored with the nine to five.

Eventually, I just couldn't imagine myself being in a cubicle for my entire career.

My father worked for IBM. My mother raised us kids. There were six of us, and a couple of extra foster kids at any given time.

My dream was to work for one of the big electronics companies like Sony or Panasonic.

Someday I might have to put down a basketball and have a regular 9-to-5 like everybody else.