Career Development Quotes

If you want to go to places worth going, you have to be open to personal growth. No matter how much your job pays you, if it doesn’t offer you the opportunity to grow, your efforts would only go to waste. There are really just some things that money can’t buy. Never stop learning!

~ Kevin J. Donaldson

Proper research into organization of interest is a step to getting there.

~ Chidi Prosper Agbugba

At a career peak, there is certainly the specter of competition from below, but just as importantly, there’s the risk that if we aren’t on a curve that satisfies us emotionally, we may be the cause of our own undoing.

~ Whitney Johnson

He or she who gets hired is not necessarily the one who can do that job best; but, the one who knows the most about how to get hired.

~ Richard Lathrop

Wealth is violent and uneasy to acquire, don't blow yourself by rushing. You won't find, you will only get lost on your way to find and you won't find it, Reserve yourself and wealth will find you.

~ Auliq Ice

Your employees' ability to take satisfying and productive steps towards career goals is directly proportionate to their self-awareness.

~ Julie Winkle Giulioni

When you disrupt yourself, you are looking for growth, so if you want to muscle up a curve, you have to push and pull against objects and barriers that would constrain and constrict you. That is how you get stronger.

~ Whitney Johnson

The more closed your network, the more you hear the same ideas over and again, reaffirming what you already believe, while the more open your network, the more exposed you are to new ideas.

~ Whitney Johnson

The most common mistake you'll make is forgetting to keep your own scorecard. Very little at work reinforces your ability to do this, so you will have to be vigilant. When evaluators give you an assessment, they are just guessing at who you are; they certainly are not the ones who know your potential. They can rate you and influence you, but they don't get to define you. That's your most honorable assignment: to define, every day through the way you deliver your work, the scope and nature of your inherent abilities.

~ Charlotte Beers

Everyone is poor in one way or another, so there is no need to worry of where you belong, we are all rich and poor at the same time.

~ Auliq Ice

Sometimes you just need some reassurance about your Choice before you take any decision.

~ Auliq Ice

No one creates a perfect resume on their first try. Writing a perfect resume is a messy process, but the easiest way to start is by simply getting in the right mindset and putting pen to paper.

~ Matthew T. Cross

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

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

~ Auliq Ice

You can never stop being a teacher. It is the core responsibility of a leader.

~ Alex Malley

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

My only career goal is to be an halloween icon.

~ Nuno Roque

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

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

~ Julie Winkle Giulioni

Money should be ones demand and not command, one should not become a slave of Money because we made money to help us trade and not to make us, we're already made even without money.

~ Auliq Ice

No offense but a seller will say whatever it takes to sell a product but if you sum it up, it comes down to hard work.

~ Auliq Ice

You'll earn more money doing something you love, rather than just doing something because it pays you a high salary.

~ Auliq Ice

Just make as much money as you can, but try your best not to rob or get robbed, it will sweep all that you have and leave your hands empty.

~ Auliq Ice

It’s easy to get sidetracked with thoughts that involve much money and precious things, but before you launch into that mode, reason well.

~ Auliq Ice