I now make my living by being impolite. I am clumsy at it.

If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, ‚No.‘

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

People have more freedom to bring more of their personal qualities into the role they play once they have established themselves and their competence is no longer in question. But this is always within limits.

At 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon.

When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.

I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

The glory of being a carrier pilot has certainly worn off.

I just don’t believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

I’ve done many ads because that’s my new career. It’s an inspiring extension for my mind.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

My business acumen is definitely growing.

I didn’t want to be selling insurance at 40, wondering what would it have been like to do stand-up.

I’ve been in continuing education programs since taking my dance master’s exam at age 21.

Nobody’s indispensable.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

If I lost my job, I’d get a job at McDonald’s.

Leadership is influence.

My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did.

There is no employing class, no working class, no farming class. You may pigeonhole a man or woman as a farmer or a worker or a professional man or an employer or even a banker. But the son of the farmer will be a doctor or a worker or even a banker, and his daughter a teacher. The son of a worker will be an employer – or maybe president.

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.

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I’ll probably… drop writing children’s books and become a political cartoonist again.

My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.

I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.

I wanted to race cars. I didn’t like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.

You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

Take me seriously. Take me and my role seriously. Take my talent seriously.

If you make yourself indispensable to your employer, he is not going to part with you in a hurry no matter what it costs him.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

I became an actress because my mom wanted me to become an actress. It took me until my mid-30s to realize I actually didn’t. I actually wanted to write and direct and be more involved in politics and humanitarian issues.

If you just needed the skills to pass the bar, two years would be enough. But if you think of law as a learned profession, then a third year is an opportunity for, on the one hand, public service and practice experience, but on the other, also to take courses that round out the law that you didn’t have time to do.

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.