Career Advice Quotes

Job change is a very crucial decision. This decision can make or break your career.

~ Abhishek Ratna

Even though your time on the job is temporary, if you do a good enough job, your work there will last forever.

~ Idowu Koyenikan

When my father was 17, he went to Montreal and found these submarine sandwich shops that were really successful, and weren't in Toronto [his home town]. So he went to my grandparents and said: Look, you have to give me the seed money to open up one of these places. We'll make a fortune. They've got lines going round the block. There's nothing like that here. And my grandfather's response was: Look, I'm sure these sandwiches are really good, and if we scraped the money together we could make a lot of money and your mother and I would be really proud of you, but you need to find something that has *magic* in it for you. It was off of that conversation that my father went to college on a music scholarship, started a film club and became one of the most successful directors of all time.

~ Jason Reitman

Each job requires a conscious choice of career path, and a different plan of development.

~ Auliq Ice

Choose to live life.Choose your own career paths.Choose your own destiny.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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

It is common to come across a perfectionist at work. Life is not that tough if you have a perfectionist sub-ordinate, life is a bit tough when you have a perfectionist peer, life is toughestwhen you have a perfectionist supervisor!

~ Abhishek Ratna

Your career is your business.

~ Auliq Ice

An educated person would know that holding a degree will not make you entitled to a better job nor a better salary than someone who has no degree.

~ J.b.

Make sure you work at a place which gives you opportunities to learn, travel, explore, interact with intellectuals and new work skills.

~ Abhishek Ratna

In regards to planning your career, you need to treat it (your career) just like a business.

~ Auliq Ice

Never agree to a job interview in which the interviewer has seen you naked.

~ Susan Mallery

Walking on a road without seeing and planning for what's down the road will almost certainly catch you off-guard and may turn out to be a harsh blow, sometime or other.

~ Abhishek Ratna

Make sure that you are fully aware of the work environment which will suit your ‘work style’ the best.

~ Abhishek Ratna