#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.”

“Love what you do; Do what you love.”

“Look at guys like Larry Bird and George Brett and John McEnroe; that's what they did in their careers. They all wanted to be the guy under the microscope late in the game or late in the match. So you just take on that know-how that that's part of your responsibility, and you learn that's what makes it exciting. That's what makes it fun!”

“It's an honour and a thrill and a privilege just to play in the NHL.”

“If there's anything you're not happy about-in your relationships, in your health, in your career-make a decision right now about how you're going to change it immediately.”

“I asked him what he wanted to do for his career, and he replied that he wanted to go into a particular field, but thought he should work for McKinsey for a few years first to add to his resume. To me that's like saving sex for your old age. It makes no sense.”

“Take the job you would take if you were independently wealthy. You're going to do well at it.”

“My career always involved being the person in charge of what I was portraying to people. "I never wanted to be an image of something I didn't believe in, an image that somebody else had put together. The idea of that just really scared me, more than the idea of failing.”

“Most of my life I have done what I wanted to do. I have had fun on the job.”

“When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.”

“Every man is captain of his career and there must be cooperation all around if he is to get what he wants out of life.”

“Right now you can make a decision, ... If you truly decided to, you can do almost anything. So if you don't liike the current relationship you're in, make the decision now to change it. If you don't like your current job, change it.”

“Illness and fatigue can be career ending. It mean the fans are sick and tired of you.”

“When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.”

“Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it - his mind, his body, his heart - what's life worth to him?”

“As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.”

“I've found that men I've dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I've found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren't competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been... challenging.”

“I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.”

“In the beginning I remember when I would spend three hours a day on MySpace just trying to comment everyone back, and now, I spend a half hour a night on MySpace just putting up new stuff and answering people back and monitoring all the fan sites, and saying hi and thank you. I'm still way on top of it. I haven't grown out of it because it'll always be something that helped launch my career, and I'm going to keep maintaining it.”

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

“I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president.”

“I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I'm very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I'm feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It's gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be.”

“I don't know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way - all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup - all the time. When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.”

“The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.”

“I don't want to do a TV series. It's no fun working from dawn to sunset every day. An occasional movie would be fine, and then I'll see what might develop on the political front.”

“When I was on TV in the '80s, I wasn't thinking, 'There's a 10-year-old kid watching this and in 15 years, he's gonna be doing stuff that was influenced by me.' I was trying to get my five minutes together. So now that those people are comedians and they're influenced by me - it's bizarre.”