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When I was at Teradata, I got called a growth guy. And then when I became C.E.O. of the whole company, I got called a cost-cutter. Then, I came to H.P. and became an operations guy.

— Mark V. Hurd

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Bernard Ebbers

My dad for a long time was an accounting professor at Rice University. And then he went out on his own, and he got hired by a client. He ended up being CEO of a hospital management company before he retired, called Lifemark.

— John Mackey

Since I was 20 years old, I've been a kind of corporation. I'd wake up in the morning and my job was to be 'Bonnie Raitt' in capital letters.

— Bonnie Raitt

I come from a very humble background. My father had to work really hard to become an assistant director. For a large part of his youth, he worked in a mill and took up odd jobs to make ends meet. We lived in a small room and could only afford a meal a day.

— Dhanush

I am an industry.

— Thalia

Starting my career as a kid, I was doing what jobs I got.

— Laura Dern

My first job in the film business was working as a production assistant, and then a production manager on a documentary about Townes Van Zandt.

— Jeff Nichols

I call them associates; I don't like the word 'employee.'

— Mickey Drexler

✗Opposing Perspectives

I've been an engineer, barman, skip lorry driver, coalman, boat window manufacturer, contract grass cutter and builder.

— Neal Asher

My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company.

— Eva Herzigova