Quotes About Career

The purpose of employment is not to make money

The financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession.

In the meantime, I'll get a job. I'll pay my own way." "A job?" "Mmm, yeah. It's that thing people do to make money.

A diploma is a piece of paper that is used to acquire another piece of paper: an employment contract.

Those that care for their career, more than their relationship, can find themselves alone.

A lot of money with the wrong career is not going to make you happy. If you have money without happiness, it doesn't mean anything. It's all about happiness.

I love architecture, but I learned early on that architects just don't make a lot of money.

I didn't end up some sad, tragic guy singing in a lounge somewhere. I never went out and took big money for nostalgia and became like an oldies act.

Whenever I made money I invested in myself... I bought whatever I needed to make my career better. I never really spent money on other stuff, like buying expensive cars.

I'd always rather be working - and you know what? My kids would rather me be working. If I stay at home, I'll only buy another car or spend their money.

My parents didn't make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn't have a career as such he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.

I love show business. I wake up every morning and kiss it.

For Fang, getting out of bed in the morning is a career move.

Some of us wake up in the morning and just wonder how it is any of us actually sustain a paid job.

I've done big studio films and the big studio films I've done, I've tried to do the interesting ones and the ones where I could live with myself in the morning.

I'm on VH1 now, will be working on ITV's This Morning again from September.

Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out of my career: to be able to get up in the morning and do what I love doing.

I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids.

At the age of 15 months my daughter was diagnosed with very bad asthma, and essentially I put my career on hold for a good eight years.

My biggest challenge every day is to be a great mother and a great businesswoman.

My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.

My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company.

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she'd kill me. She thinks I'm selling dope.