Career Quotes

“A little integrity is better than any career.”

“Bagehot did what so many thousand of young graduates before him had done,--he studied for the bar; and then, having prepared himself to practise law, followed another large body of young men in deciding to abandon it.”

“At 25, I was in the audience of my first professional speaker, Bob Bales. His presentation got my attention. I had never seen anyone having so much fun 'at work' and getting paid for it!”

“Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.”

“When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires.”

“The profession I chose was politics; the profession I entered was law. I entered the one because I thought it would lead to the other.”

“Do more than you are being paid to do, and you'll eventually be paid more for what you do.”

“When I was asked to make the film, I decided that it was like taking on a new career at the age of sixty-eight. I've never acted before. And taking direction is not something I'm very good at. I've always known who I am and what I was going to do, and I've always just done it.”

“My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty water less cookware.”

“Too many people spend more time planning how to get the job than on how to become productive and successful in that job.”

“A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.”

“We figure great careers aren't made. They're experienced.”

“If I didn't make it in baseball, I won't have made it workin'. I didn't like to work.”

“Things you like to do should be a hobby of yours, but things the world does should be a business of yours.”

“Never give up searching for the job that you’re passionate about. Try to find the job you’d have if you were independently rich. Forget about the pay. When you’re associating with the people that you love, doing what you love, it doesn’t get any better than that.”

“I think you are out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don't like because you think it will look good on your resume. Isn't that a little like saving up sex for your old age?”

“Never give up searching for the job that you're passionate about.”

“People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.”

“Enjoy your work and work for whom you admire.”

“I don't have to work another day of my life, thank God, but I'm in a place where I probably work as hard or harder today than I ever have, but I do it because I want to, not because I have to. What is the difference between work and play? I think the difference is purpose. When your vocation becomes your vacation, the old quote, you know that's when you made it.”

“I originally studied medicine in order to be a physiologist, but I drifted into psychology and philosophy from a sort of fatality. I never had any philosophic instruction, the first lecture on psychology I ever heard being the first I ever gave.”

“When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.”

“Do what you love and work for whom you admire the most, and you've given yourself the best chance in life you can.”

“The secret is to find what you love to do.I mean, I tell the students look for the job that you would take if you didn't need a job. I mean, it's that simple. And I was lucky enough to find it very early in life. And then the second thing is to have people around you that make feel good every day, and make you a better person than you otherwise would be.”

“Does college pay? They do if you are a good open-field runner.”