Quotes About Career

Why did I become a professional pornographer? What can I say? I needed a job, a job was offered to me, and I took it.

I recommend to young people to seek work for what they will learn, more than what they will earn. Look down the road at what skills they want to acquire before choosing a specific profession and before getting trapped in the Rat Race.

One dad recommended, "Study hard so you can find a good company to work for." The other recommended, "Study hard so you can find a good company to buy.

Financial struggle is often directly the result of people working all their lives for someone else.

A job is only a short-term solution to a long-term problem.

Chances are you have a job. Chances are your job sucks. But you've learned a few things from this job, mainly, YOU DON'T LIKE BEING AN EMPLOYEE!

To live a life dictated by the size of a paycheck is not really living a life. Thinking that a job makes you secure is lying to yourself. That's cruel, and that's the trap I want you to avoid.

The corporate myth is over. If you've spent years climbing the corporate ladder, have you ever stopped to notice the view? What view, you ask? The rear end of the person in front of you. That's what you get to look forward to. If that's the way you want to view the rest of your life, then this book probably isn't for you. But if you are sick and tired of looking at someone else's behind, then read on.

A problem with school is that you often become what you study. So if you study cooking, you become a chef. If you study the law, you become an attorney, and a study of auto mechanics makes you a mechanic. The mistake in becoming what you study is that too many people forget to mind their own business. They spend their lives minding someone else's business and making that person rich.

Remember what I said before: A job is only a short-term solution to a long-term problem.

Although we have been successful in our careers, they have not turned out quite as we expected. We both have changed positions several times—for all the right reasons—but there are no pension plans vesting on our behalf. Our retirement funds are growing only through our individual contributions.

we're all employees ultimately. We just work at different levels

He could not understand my decision to resign from a career that offered high pay, great benefits, lots of time off, and opportunity for promotion. When he asked me one evening, "Why did you quit?" I could not explain it to him, though I tried hard to. My logic did not fit his logic.

As I've said many times before, in the real world, the A students often go to work for the C students--and the B students work for the government.

A job is really a short-term solution to a long-term problem.

He never understood that the more specialized you become, the more you are trapped and dependent on that specialty.

They know that professional success is no longer solely linked to academic success, as it once was.

You go to school if you want to be a better employee or better professional person such as a doctor, lawyer, or accountant. If you don't care about degrees, promotions, or job security, then you go to seminars.

They want to go to school, learn a profession, have fun at their work, and earn lots of money. One day they wake up with big money problems, and then they can't stop working.

Traditional schools are for those who want to be successful in the E and S quadrants. Another type of education is for those who want to be successful in the B and I quadrants.

The more emotionally attached he got to his job and to a paycheck to pay the bills, the more he encouraged his kids to "get a safe, secure job.

academic success does not necessarily equate to financial success.

They were looking to climb the corporate ladder, whereas I wanted to build and own corporate ladders.

Un posto di lavoro è una soluzione a breve termine per un problema di lungo periodo».