Career Quotes

Part of me would just like to relax and have one job that pays me the amount I need to survive. And another part of me wants the creativity that comes out of struggle and frustration and fear. It's a never-ending cycle, which must be how I want it, on some level.

~ Ahmir Questlove Thompson

The silent workers get lost in the endless darkness of the corporate world.

~ Abhishek Ratna

Business is ultimately about people and we can't be effective in business without having some insight into people.

~ Abhishek Ratna

The work environment can bring out the 'best' or the 'worst' in you.

~ Abhishek Ratna

Your personal and professional lives will have to go hand in hand and will have influence on each other.

~ Abhishek Ratna

In most work situations, there is usually more to see than what meets the eyes. A lot happens just beneath the surface.

~ Abhishek Ratna

Your career growth depends mainly on how well you can articulate and present your performance review.

~ Abhishek Ratna

When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know.

~ Sylvia Plath

A world full of people who want to know what you will be, what is your skill and what is your purpose. In the north, if a man had come and said What will you be? What will you do? I would have laughed at this kind of person that lives all the time in the future.

~ Daniel Mason

Ever day you spend at work is a foundation for your future.

~ Abhishek Ratna

There are plenty of chances in life, what's important is what you make of them.

~ Katja Michael

Heaven knows where I'll end up - it's a safe bet I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.

~ H.p. Lovecraft

Doing his utmost, deploying all his energy, a young man setting out from zero can wind up after ten years somewhere below where he started.

~ Honoré De Balzac

In one way or another, almost every twentysomething client I have wonders, 'Will things work out for me?' The uncertainty behind that question is what makes twentysomething life so difficult, but it is also what makes twentysomething action so possible and so necessary. It's unsettling to not know the future and, in a way, even more daunting to consider that what we are doing with our twentysomething lives might be determining it.

~ Meg Jay

In regards to climbing the ladder of success, there is a better future, with a greater purpose. One can find it, only if he or she searches for it.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

The purpose of college, to put this all another way, is to turn adolescents into adults. You needn't go to school for that, but if you're going to be there anyway, then that's the most important thing to get accomplished. That is the true education: accept no substitutes. The idea that we should take the first four years of young adulthood and devote them to career preparation alone, neglecting every other part of life, is nothing short of an obscenity. If that's what people had you do, then you were robbed. And if you find yourself to be the same person at the end of college as you were at the beginning - the same beliefs, the same values, the same desires, the same goals for the same reasons - then you did it wrong. Go back and do it again.

~ William Deresiewicz

I don't really care if people forget me. My legacy wasn't about me. It was about everything I could do for another. When that sinks in...well you try a little harder. You dream a little broader. Your heart stretches a little farther and you find that you can't go back to the same place and make it fit. You become a person of ideas and seek out your own kind. And then it happens: One day you discover that staying the same is scary and changing has become your new home.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Ingredients to success: know what you do well, know what to do well, and know someone who's swell.

~ Criss Jami

Even the richest of brands are robbed by poor character.

~ Criss Jami

To be a manager, one must be able to manage her own relationship with the people around her, as well as the relationships among her subordinates. Just being perfect in paperwork and operations does not make one a good manager.

~ Sophie L. Rose

To be a manager, one must be able to manage her own relationship with the people around her, as well as the relationships among his subordinates. Just being perfect in paperwork and operations does not make one a good manager.

~ Sophie Rose

I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won't make that mistake again.

~ Gillian Flynn

So many people spend years (and money) studying to be doctors, lawyers, actors, dancers, business executives and scientists - when you're an author, you can be any of these things, and you don't need a degree or certificate; all you need is an imagination, a dream and an open mind.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

Imagination is pure potentiality for creation. We shouldn't submit it to the hourly wages we subject our time at work.

~ Carlos Roche

Maslow did not make two different pyramids, one for men and one for women. He did not differentiate in identifying what men want and what women want.

~ Shahla Khan

Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anyway.

~ Lady Gaga

Take advantage of losing your job by making it an opportunity to find a better one..

~ Hassan Choughari

Self-awareness is the key to find our uniqueness. The latter increases our chance to succeed in our personal, career, and business lives...

~ Assegid Habtewold

In business as well as in everything else, you're in business to spread love.  Your agency should spread love,  your screenplay should spread love, your store should spread love, your life should spread love.  The key to a successful career is realizing that it s not separate from the rest of your life, but is rather an extension of your most basic self and your most basic self is love.

~ Marianne Williamson

Every crossroad in life has four options – quit, adapt, proceed, or accept, but quitting is a dead-end.

~ Sharon Nir

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

Political skills are essential career competencies to get ahead and stay ahead.

~ Bonnie Marcus

A friend’s 14-year-old niece was asked by her teacher what she wanted to be when she finished school. The teacher asked her to think hard about it and then get back to him with an answer. She didn’t know what to say to her teacher. A friend, on hearing the girl’s predicament, said: ‘Tell your teacher that, perhaps, the thing you want to be when you leave school hasn’t been invented yet.

~ Ian Sanders

In a sense, discouragement does not have to exist. Allow it to be rather the encouragement to honestly reconsider all the options, then, as necessary, shine on.

~ Criss Jami

Your manager wants to believe that you enjoy your job, or at least you won't spit in her coffee when she looks away. At the office, attitude counts for a lot.

~ Terri Tierney Clark

A decision is only as strong as the belief standing behind it

~ Isaiah Hankel

Do what you love but do what it takes to do what you love.

~ Todd Stocker

People leave companies for two reasons. One, they don't feel appreciated. And two, they don't get along with their boss.

~ Adam Bryant

Fortune does favor the bold and you'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

You can’t lead if you don’t know what you were made for. You can’t know what you were made for if you don’t ask the one who made you! Know your creator, know yourself!

~ Israelmore Ayivor