Quotes About Career

You cannot get them to talk of politics so long as they are well employed

the more specialized you become, the more you are trapped and dependent on that specialty.

I'd rather be excited about making millions than worrying about not getting a raise.

As a result, he is overqualified for the jobs he currently has

The problem was that he couldn't find an equivalent job that recognized his seniority from the old company.

I don't want to go running down some career path—supposedly such a grand enterprise. What's so grand about it: people acquiring crooked backs at an early age from stooping at undersized desks, wrinkled hands, pale faces, mutilated workday trousers, trembling legs, fat bellies, sour stomachs, bald spots upon their skulls, bitter, snappish, leathery, faded, insipid eyes, ravaged brows and the consciousness of having been conscientious fools. No thank you!

I think I'd rather get a job. Why? Why not? Jobs are for people who need them. You don't need one. You'd be taking it from somebody else who did.

he said softly. "At the present time in my life there are only two things I really care about: you and my research. And if there were some way I could make a living out of being with you, I might even forget the research.

I advise those who want to become writers to study veterinary medicine, which is easier. You don't want to be a writer unless you have no choice - and if you have no choice, good luck to you.

we have to juggle a number of different balls. Some balls, like the one that represents career, are made of rubber. If we drop them, they have the ability to bounce back. But some balls are made of glass—family is like that. If you drop that ball, it doesn't come back.

once you find what you truly love doing, you will never have to work another day in your life.

once you find what you truly love doing, you will never have to work another day in your life. People

He was an editor for seven years before directing his first film, and his career stands as an argument for the theory that editors make better directors than cine-matographers do; the cinematographer is seduced by the look of a film, while the editor is faced with the task of making it work as a story.

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

Daring in design, cautious in execution—it was a formula he made his own throughout his career.

Archbold scandal pushed him toward his proper career: that of a full-time philanthropist.

Something about this deep domesticity and respectability pleased Washington, who was never cut out for a gallivanting, footloose life. Martha gave him a secure, happy base for the myriad activities of a busy career. She was his dear companion, trusted adviser, and confidante long after lust faded, and they delighted in each other's company.

By instinct, by blind faith, by knowledge of his father's private character—by everything but detailed knowledge of his business career

It proved to be the luckiest stroke of his career.

John D. Rockefeller had an unfailing knack for knowing who would help or hinder him in his career, an instinct only sharpened by time.

His victory over the Cleveland refiners would be the first but also the most controversial campaign of his career.

Throughout his career, Hamilton had been an unusually tolerant man with enlightened views on slavery, native Americans, and Jews. His whole vision of American manufacturing had been predicated on immigration.

While drinking almost never interfered with his official duties, it haunted his career and trailed him everywhere, an infuriating, ever-present ghost he could not shake. It influenced how people perceived him and deserves close attention. As with so many problems in his life, Grant managed to attain mastery over alcohol in the long haul, a feat as impressive as any of his wartime victories.

Not for the last time, Pierpont contemplated retirement.