Mika Brzezinski Quotes
A fundamental lesson on being fired: Never lie about it. People will know what you're saying is a cover-up for how you really feel - embarrassed, discouraged, and afraid.
My salary situation at 'Morning Joe' wasn't right. I made five attempts to fix it, then realized I'd made the same mistake every time: I apologised for asking.
Everyday I find myself reminding women around me to know their value. I also have to remind myself.
I have mugs of hot water every morning because the studio is cold, and also because it makes my throat sound clearer.
I personally know Donald Trump, and I know a lot of amazing really kind acts that he's done one-on-one with people. And the candidate that I see is not the person I know.
I was fired at the pinnacle of my career, on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed, I learned that there are many psychological phases of being 'let go.'
The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my familys relationship with each other.
Finding a job is hard enough, but have you ever considered the odds and the challenges of finding a good man?
I think women have a hard time not apologizing their way into negotiations. We tend to back in to these conversations in a self-deprecating and ultimately self-defeating way.
If we can't quantify and communicate our value with confidence, the achievements of the tremendous women before us will have all been for nothing.
My family was always active, and our thing was family walks. Not walks around the block, but more like eight-mile hikes up mountains.
Why don't these companies making big profits just pay people better than $14 an hour? It's kind of simple. When you're making record profits, why not? I don't get it.
On 'Morning Joe' I can say what I think, be my sometimes unorthodox self, have fun, yet be serious as well.
Often I feel like I can run forever. If someone told me I had to run for 10 hours, I probably could.
I am not afraid to say my relationship with my man is important, even vital, to who I am as a person.
Being unemployed has so many real and palpable ramifications but there are also psychological side effects which you can only understand if youve truly lived through it.
After being let go from CBS and looking for a year for work, I will never catch myself complaining about being too busy.
I'd been fired by CBS News in a semipublic way, and as the months went by, there was a perception that I was damaged goods.
Don't make your journey through life harder by placing rules on yourself like, 'I can't get married till I get promoted to your dream job.'
Despite my professional experience, the fifteen-hour workdays, and a successful new show that I had helped build, MSNBC was still refusing to pay me what I was worth.
If we've seen one thing from Donald Trump, it's that he says one thing one day, and another thing another.