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Quotes About Career

Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness.
~ Robertson Davies
Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of a dollar bill, each different in design. ... Her problem is to keep one from draining the life from the other.
~ Ivy Baker Priest
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
Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
~ Barbra Streisand
Women want men, careers, money, children, friends, luxury, comfort, independence, freedom, respect, love, and three dollar pantyhose that won't run.
~ Phyllis Diller
A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
~ Gloria Steinem
To be happy and successful, do what you love as your daily work.
~ Terry Mark
Loving others is the key to living a happy life. How you treat others is going to be an impact on your career and success.
~ Unknown
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
~ Confucius
If you LOVE what you do, you will never work a day in your life!
~ Ritu Ghatourey
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 anymore.
~ Lady Gaga
All that running around in my underwear put money in my pockets. I can focus on working in interesting movies without having to worry about supporting myself.
~ Mark Wahlberg
Some people say it might be good for your career to die and then come back again. I have died many ways, car crashes, motorcycle crashes, etc. But, I am still alive.
~ Mark-Paul Gosselaar
I never enjoyed working in a film.
~ Unknown
The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.
~ Marlon Brando
As a general rule, people in their 20s want to learn on the job. In their 30s they want to advance. And in their 40s they want to rule. No matter what their age, though, understanding their desires is like trying to pin down mercury.
~ Marshall Goldsmith
Career miracles happen when you're so in love with your life that pushing yourself is actually easier than stopping, when you "do without doing." Joyful activity adds real value to the world, and adding value is the heart and soul of a successful career.
~ Martha N. Beck
At this point, I don't get hired a lot because people don't think I could finance a movie.
~ Martha Plimpton
I looked you up, Arkady. You have a checkered career." "I'm flattered. I was unaware of having any career at all.
~ Martin Cruz Smith
A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.
~ Martin H. Fischer
You have to take responsibility and become the architect of your own success by learning what it takes to navigate the twists and turns of a long career, because if you don't take responsibility for your own success, nothing will happen.
~ Unknown
Regardless of profession or title, at some level we are all hired to do the same job. We are all problem solvers, paid to anticipate, identify, prevent, and solve problems within our areas of expertise. This applies to any job, at any level, in any organization, anywhere in the world, and being aware of this is absolutely vital to job search and career success in any field.
~ Unknown
If you lived in the wild, you'd need to know how to make fire to survive. But you live in an urban world, and you need to make money. That means you need a job, and the only way to get a job is by turning a job interview into a job offer.
~ Unknown
she was well aware that the further up the career hierarchy she went, the fewer female faces she saw.
~ Mary Beard