Careers Quotes - Page 9

• The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.

  Richard Branson

  Success, Business, Real

  Richard Branson (2005). “Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography”, Virgin Pub

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• I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Inspirational, Teacher, Women

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• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Determination

  Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

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• Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.

  Phil Crosby

  Drama, History, Leader

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• I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.

  Marie Curie

  Family, Easy, Wells

  Marie Curie (2013). “Pierre Curie: With Autobiographical Notes by Marie Curie”, p.97, Courier Corporation

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• The best way to predict the future is to create it.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.

  David Ogilvy

  Work, Years, Long

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• The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.

  Grace Paley

  Normal, Divides, Professional Life

  Grace Paley, Gerhard Bach, Blaine H. Hall (1997). “Conversations with Grace Paley”, p.228, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, America, My Family

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 31 August 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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• The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  George Bernard Shaw (2010). “Mrs. Warren's Profession”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Inspirational, Determination, Work

  "Mindfulness" edited by Ellen J. Langer, (p. 133), 1989.

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• Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.

  Rick Warren

  Reality, Servant Of God, Faithful Servants

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• I don't believe in careers. I believe in work. I'm not interested in some 'big picture that would be really good for me'.

  Debra Winger

  Work, Believe, Would Be

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• The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.

  C. S. Lewis

  Family, Friends, Support

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Success, Wisdom, Judging

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

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• Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women.

  Nora Ephron

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "What graduation speeches can teach you about life" by Natasha Lunn, www.redonline.co.uk. April 15, 2015.

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• If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

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• I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Success, Determination

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• Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Vice President Mike Pence's Speech at Grove City College, time.com. May 20, 2017.

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• If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.

  Brian Tracy

  Positive, Success, Dream

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Mar 31, 2013

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• I'm doing everything I can to sabotage my career. It's a little thing called "fear of success".

  Jon Stewart

  Success, Jobs, Fear

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• I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything.

  Jon Stewart

  Looks, Want, Proud

  Orange County Register, July 9, 1999.

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• You look for stars. You look for the makeup of artists who can have long lasting careers and who could be headliners.

  Clive Davis

  Stars, Commitment, Makeup

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• You can't rely on luck. I've had some stages in my career where I've said we're going to wing it, and we've always ended up in trouble.

  George Thorogood

  Wings, Luck, Trouble

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