Corporate Environment Quotes

My husband works with Donald Trump's company as an employee.

You're perceived as being a success if you find a job in some big city and work with hundreds of other people and draw a paycheck every month.

I did almost every job in the bank. It was real life, waking up in the morning, putting on a suit and tie and then having to go to work.

I spent most of my career in hi tech, not in politics.

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.

In every work environment, there will be politics. If you really want to rise to the top, you need to figure out what those politics in your workplace are. Then, you hook it in. You decide what conforms and what does not conform to your personal code.

My cousin Elroy spent seven years as an IBM taper staring at THINK signs on the walls before he finally got a good idea: He quit.

Working for a big company is, I believe, much risker than it looks.

Machismo requires Latin blood. I'd say I never experienced machismo up close until I worked in a French office; the typical Wall Street gunner has the soul of a coffee filter in comparison.

I won't be making any friends in the corporate suites.

When I decided to leave the military, I realized that the skills I acquired there were transferable to the commercial world both in leadership and the information technology field. I made the decision to move to Oracle because of its strong leadership role.

We were a fast-growing company, and I was a demanding boss.

When you work in television, working for a big corporation, no matter who you are, you can always get cancelled. That sucks. Do you really want to work with an axe over your head for the rest of your life? Not me, not really, and not if you don't have to.

My first college internship was at Sony Pictures Entertainment in Los Angeles. My second internship was at McKinsey & Company as a consultant - that turned into my first job after graduation.

The transition of a desk job, having to be in the office at the same time every day, I found super hard.

It's got to be weird to sit in an office all day and deal with these creative types without having any idea of what they do or how they do it.

When I look back over my career, there was so much stress. And it was because of the business. It was always because of the business.

I am a businesswoman who goes to work every single day.

By the dawn of the millennium, the hallways at Microsoft were no longer home to barefoot programmers in Hawaiian shirts working through nights and weekends toward a common goal of excellence; instead, life behind the thick corporate walls had become staid and brutish.

I was a partner at Pricewaterhouse before I got my four year degree.

Obviously, working at Google wasn't a mistake. I used to just walk around. I don't know if I was supposed to, but I'd just open doors and see what people were doing.

I used to work as a proofreader at Merrill Lynch.

If you look around Booking.com, it's a very gender-balanced company.

My family said that a big firm was where you'd get the most opportunities. I knew nobody who had ever worked at a firm, nobody who knew anything about it. I just tried to get the best job I could.

People ask me all the time: 'What is it like to be a woman at Google?' I'm not a woman at Google, I'm a geek at Google. And being a geek is just great. I'm a geek, I like to code, I even like to use spreadsheets when I cook.