career advancement quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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.‘

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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