Anita Baker Quotes

I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.

I believe your career is one of the few things that stay with you forever. It also gives you the confidence to lead a happy life.

If you fix your sense of self to your job, then you're heading for disaster.

In my head, that climb up the career ladder just doesn't exist. I feel I've achieved everything I set out to achieve, as far as work goes.

Don't make career choices on short-term financial gain. Job satisfaction and career enjoyment are far more important.

I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.

I'm probably satisfied with my career 80 percent of the time.

I don't really have a career plan. There's no joy for me to just be a personality in my work, and I feel that that's so much of what's out there.

When you do something that you like, and you think you can keep doing it, you don't think about retiring.

I don't really think in career terms.

The more a woman likes her job, the better her self-image and the more she enjoys her life.

My dream job has already happened.

I want to work and be happy.

I have a career, I worked so hard for it.

I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.

Fresh out of college, you tend to join a company because it's a job. But, you tend to stay because it becomes a career; you start to feel at home. In the beginning of your career, you're focused on you: 'I like this place because I'm doing rewarding work; they take good care of me; the people are nice; there's runway for me,' etc.

These days we seem more bound to our bosses than ever before. We even identify our own selves with the jobs we do: 'What do you do?' is the first question we ask each other at parties, as if a job title could express a fundamental truth about our personality.

You just want to be able to have a nice career and make a living at it.

I like to work. I believe that work helps us find our self worth.

My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what I'm doing.

I'm not a career woman.

I've finally reached a stage in my career where I can do what I want.

That's where I want to be. Do your dream job and stay in Atlanta. Check and check!

I am not super-attached to my career.

My job is my life.