Career Quotes

Many of us wake up at the age of 40 one day, dreading going to work because we were forced to pick a career before we could legally buy a beer.

I think that most artists scorned would prefer to be known as the one with the genius brain risking no career over the one with the good brain and great career.

School fools a lot of people. Professionally, one thing is not the most that one person can be.

A huge number of jobs that are filled are never advertised to the public, or if they are, they’re filled by people who have a connection to the employer.

No new venture occurs without mistakes. Dare to learn and grow through your mistakes--this is how mastery occurs!

Regrets begin the moment we're comfortable with settling.

Perfecting is a journey...There is no destination called perfection.

Everyday do one thing to move you in the direction of your dreams.

When you reach the middle of your career ladder, turn it the other way around and slide down to the top

I wonder if the highlighter was highlight of the career for the person who invented it?

Get into Investment Banking

In a race, what matters is not who started first, but who finished first.

Encouraging employees to interact directly with the environment is just an interesting exercise until you debrief their experiences and encourage reflection.

Career is just posh slavery.

Burnout is a war that must be won on two fronts.

Finding your passion is the key to your success. - Tracy Kauffman

The job wouldn't be just put the summer, but for a long time, as long as she could see ahead. Once they were used to the money coming in it would be impossible to do without again.

Would any of you like to share your career aspirations within the class? Jim?I dunno, to be honest, I was just hoping to be able to keep the demons away...

Everybody needs a career manager."- Lady Macbeth

A mind that is determined to succeed can never fail to achieve.

You may say you're "anti-status, " but if you filled a room with people who said that, they would soon form a status hierarchy based on how anti-status each person claims to be.

I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.

It's not only who you know but who knows you.

Organizing one's life to respond to a threat one felt powerless about as a child can be a source of enormous inspiration.

It's all just practice for the next time

when true purpose calls, double mindedness, confusion and frustration come along.

One thing they do not teach you in college is what you will actually be doing in a career of your choosing.

Professional success is only partial success.

I've had dreams - there were three things I wanted to do during my career. I did them during my first year of Grand Prix.

I learned early in my career to not let myself get in the way of humor but, instead, find what is great in a talented person.

Being a chef isn't the ideal career to intersect with parenting, but I try to be in my kids' lives as much as possible.

I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned.

I started my career as a swimsuit model. My first big break in America was 2007, 'Sports Illustrated' Swimsuit Issue.

Even though I started off being interested in news, and I spent 13 years of my career working in television sports, I always was passionate about television and movies.

Maybe it's oldest-child syndrome, but I have always been competitive, even as a kid with sports. It spills into my career.

I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.

My first career was as a coach and a teacher.

I feel very blessed we can still have a career making music.

I'm always battling how to be in a relationship while simultaneously maintaining my independence and my career.

I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.

The best career advice to give to the young is, 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.'

Getting 'SNL' was pretty amazing, so just to be able to have an eight-year career there and be really happy with everything I did, it was pretty big.

Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling.

Yes's whole career was never really planned in any sort of way. It's always sad when a member leaves, but it's exciting when someone new comes in, and that regenerates the freshness of the band.

I looked to my mom as an example. And this is what I try to tell so many women: that my mom had a career, and she went to the gym. She took care of herself.

I'm dating a very high-maintenance career.

In my whole career, I've never seen this type of race that you had to wait for the last day. There's so many teams that are involved. You've got to smile because we're in it.

Against the wishes of my family, I gave up my legal career, and I volunteered for the Army. I became an infantryman. I went to Iraq and Afghanistan.

At my house, it's an, 'If dad says it, you can say it' kind of deal, so a lot of my slang words come off very childish at this point in my career.

I've already been married six times in my career as an actress - twice as Becky - so I think a wedding of my own might feel too much like work!