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.

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

Everyone wants to know and hopes I retire so they can get the jobs. But my contracts with Fendi and Chanel are lifelong.

In the 1930s, unemployed working people could anticipate that their jobs would come back.

I left the Middle West for Schenectady because the General Electric Company offered me a more congenial, better paying job than did anyone else.

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.

It’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.

Remember: your bosses prefer to keep you in dependent positions. It is in their interest that you do not become self-reliant, and so they will tend to hoard information. You must secretly work against this and seize this information for yourself.

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

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

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

On this team, we’re all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

Leadership is influence.

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

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

If you don’t let people flourish in their jobs, why are they going to stay?

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

Sucking up to the biggies won’t get us anywhere.

We’re always looking over our shoulders, ‚what they will think, what the press will think, what will this one – am I making the right career move?‘ When you’re young you have to do all that to survive, I suppose.

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

Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

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.

My business acumen is definitely growing.

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

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.‘

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.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

I don’t like being told what to do and kissing you-know-what to get up the corporate ladder.

Nobody’s indispensable.

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you’re ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can’t fire you.

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

There are certainly a lot of things that still need to change when it comes to women in the workforce.

People clinging to job security, savings, retirement plans, and other relics will be the ones financially-ravaged from 2010-2020, the most volatile world-changing decade in history.

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

At Columbia Law School, my professor of constitutional law and federal courts, Gerald Gunther, was determined to place me in a federal court clerkship, despite what was then viewed as a grave impediment: On graduation, I was the mother of a 4-year-old child.

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.

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.

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.

Jobs are a centuries-old concept created during the Industrial Revolution. Despite the reality that we’re now deep in the Information Age, many people are studying for, or working at, or clinging to the Industrial Age idea of a safe, secure job.