Generation Y Quotes

Our Peter Pan generation is unhappy. All our lives, we want to grow up—to be treated like adults, to have freedom to choose. Then we get here and it turns out being an adult sucks. We pay the bills and taxes, watching others succeed while we are forever waiting for our turn. We believe we are special, but nothing special has come our way.

~ Marcella Purnama

The young man pities his elders, fearing the day he, too, will join their ranks. The elderly man pities the younger generation, well-knowing the trials and tribulations that lie ahead of them.

~ Lynda I Fisher

I am beyond good and evil at this point. I am beyond the lines drawn in the sand by society at this juncture. I am beyond fear, beyond religion, beyond the morals and mores. I am Lord of the Fucking Flies. Do you understand?

~ Jason S. Hornsby

Millennials (aka Generation Y) are great at social media (Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Twitter,Tumblr, Instagram, Flickr, Snapchat, Pinterest, YouTube, Vimeo, and Periscope) but lack time tested social skills ( patience, humility, active listening, respect for parents, teachers, elderly)

~ Ramesh Lohia

Anna is part of a generation that often seems frozen in place by their unreleting sense of irony. Virtually everything people believe in can be exposed as possessing laughable inconsistencies. And so they laugh. And stand still.

~ Scott Turow

I am suggesting that we don’t put the “income” cart before the “contentment” horse.

~ Miles Anthony Smith

Our career mantra should be learn, relearn, repeat.

~ Miles Anthony Smith

There remains a natural career progression even though the tougher job climate seeks to delay it.

~ Miles Anthony Smith

What someone may lack in talent can be more than made up for in self-motivation, self-direction, and follow-through.

~ Miles Anthony Smith

Do you want a level of income to fit your lifestyle or a lifestyle to fit your income level?

~ Miles Anthony Smith

In the name of all that is holy, please consider the wages of a particular profession before you select that degree plan.

~ Miles Anthony Smith

The construct of retirement is dubious at best and a farce at worst. Expectations contrary to this are to be dashed.

~ Miles Anthony Smith

Adaptability is the name of the game; if you understand that you must now be adaptable and flexible, you will find a way to succeed in your career. If not, you will succumb to job market pressures.

~ Miles Anthony Smith

Labor saving devices have destroyed many jobs but have given rise to many new ones. It simply is up to us if we are going to resist or embrace the future.

~ Miles Anthony Smith

Whereas previous generations had to face some unpredictability, current generations are facing unprecedented levels of instability.

~ Miles Anthony Smith

The surest way to ensure career extinction is to resist change and adaptation.

~ Miles Anthony Smith

Finding a job that is a good fit is as much about you selecting the right company as it is about them selecting the right candidate.

~ Miles Anthony Smith

Everyone is dispensable but some are more dispensable than others.

~ Miles Anthony Smith

Can’t we do better with Applicant Tracking System (ATS) software?

~ Miles Anthony Smith

When presented with an open door in your job, drive a Mack truck through it.

~ Miles Anthony Smith

The world is truly a terrible place. Every one of my generation is lost, filling the holes which are their lives with seditious and yet passionless acts of unnecessary drama. It is a world of hypocrisy and whispers, a dark mine shaft of overfed, spoiled, and thankless slaves too stupid to realize that, despite their steady stream of shallow luxuries, they are still slaves.

~ Jason S. Hornsby