New Career Quotes

• The secret of getting ahead is getting started

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• What is the recipe for successful achievement? Choose a career you love. Give it the best there is in you. Seize your opportunities. And be a member of the team.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Team, Successful, Opportunity

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• You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "International Encyclopedia of Prose and Poetical Quotations". Book by William S. Walsh, 1951.

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• I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

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• What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

  Benjamin Franklin Fairless

  Motivational, Success, Teamwork

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• Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt - Volume”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

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• You're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Positive, Happiness

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.

  Saul Alinsky

  Mean, Creativity, New Beginnings

  Saul Alinsky (2016). “Thirteen Tactics for Realistic Radicals: from Rules for Radicals”, p.5, Vintage

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• Do your best with what you have where you are.

  Lucy Punch

  New Beginnings, Today Not Tomorrow, Words Of Wisdom

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• Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!

  George Washington Carver

  New Beginnings, Today Not Tomorrow, Words Of Wisdom

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• To learn anything other than the stuff you find in books, you need to be able to experiment, to make mistakes, to accept feedback, and to try again. It doesn't matter whether you are learning to ride a bike or starting a new career, the cycle of experiment, feedback, and new experiment is always there.

  Charles Handy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mistake

  Charles Handy (2008). “The Hungry Spirit: New Thinking for a New World”, p.134, Random House

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• I enjoyed being president, but the campaign against Guinea worm [horrible disease] has opened up a completely new career that is challenging and unpredictable and adventurous - and very gratifying.

  Jimmy Carter

  Careers, Challenges, President

  "Jimmy Carter on Eradicating the Guinea Worm 'This Horrible, Obnoxious Disease'". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. December 17, 2010.

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• The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Retirement, Impact, Careers

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• Now I am ready to set new goals and start a new career for myself outside of the ring.

  Lennox Lewis

  Careers, Goal, New Car

  "People know I was the last true champion". Interview with Thomas Hauser, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2006.

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• I'd retired for about six or seven years. Coming back to the business, I found that I was sort of not quite a has-been, and it wasn't a new career, it was just kind of difficult to crack the nut, so to speak.

  Julie London

  Years, Nuts, Careers

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• I left with nothing and needing to begin a new career.

  John Surtees

  Careers, New Car, Left

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• I can now shed the child-actor thing, like the fat, and start a new career, because no one sees me as Dudley.

  Harry Melling

  Children, Careers, Actors

  "Harry Potter's Dudley Dursley is all grown up! Actor Harry Melling shows off weight loss at new movie premiere" by Lara Martin, www.mirror.co.uk. February 19, 2017.

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• Tom Hanks hits a new career peak. One of the best films of the year.

  Peter Travers

  Years, Careers, Film

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• I've done many ads because that's my new career. It's an inspiring extension for my mind.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Careers, Mind, Done

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• Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, College, Play

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• The purpose of the ADA was to provide clear and comprehensive national standards to eliminate discrimination against individuals with disabilities. As a result, individuals with disabilities are now able to live in their homes and have access to new careers.

  Jim Ramstad

  Home, Careers, Purpose

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• Whether I serve one or two terms in the Presidency, I will find myself at the end of that period at what might be called the awkward age-too old to begin a new career and too young to write my memoirs.

  John F. Kennedy

  Writing, Careers, Two

  John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• I never wanted to separate from either wife. It was accumulated stress. We had virtually no time to ourselves. After politics we were both working very hard to establish new careers.

  John Hewson

  Stress, Careers, Working Very Hard

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

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• I'd been a housewife and mother to our son Thomas Jefferson, and I was looking for a new career. So when my agent called and said a producer named Paul Elliott from E&B productions, the biggest panto company in the country at the time, wanted to meet me I agreed.

  Britt Ekland

  Country, Mother, Son

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