Quotes About Career

By the time I was 30, nobody would work with me. I was friendless, I was hopeless, I was suicidal, lost my family - I mean, it was bad. Bottomed out, didn't know what I was going to do. I actually thought I was going to be a chef - go to work in a kitchen someplace.

Time magazine's Jay Carney and Richard Stengel are now in government while Obama aides David Axelrod and Robert Gibbs are commentators on MSNBC.

It's also not unknown for junior co-pilots of prime low fares carriers to sleep overnight in cars between duties.

I had cars, houses, jewels, furs, and a husband who loved me, and a career I was happy with. But I found fulfillment in my relationship with Christ.

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

Take public speaking: I spent all of my twenties and early thirties avoiding it. When I once asked a speech teacher about my aversion, she explained that dancers and writers were especially difficult to teach to speak in public, since both had chosen a profession in which they didn't have to talk—and I had been both.

Women still average much less in earnings over a lifetime than men do and have to pay back the same college debt.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood - Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

I've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

You've got to kiss arse to get somewhere, to learn. Clock-watchers are no good at kissing arse.

When you decide to graduate from your regrets and disappointments, there is a brilliant career waiting for you called LIFE.

I have a degree in liberal arts. Do you want fries with that?

Ambition — What will get you to the top if the boss has no daughter.

All men are created equal, then a few become firemen.

You might be a firefighter if "climbing the corporate ladder" has nothing to do with career advancement.

He was beginning to see, though vaguely, the sharp conflict between woman and career, between a man's work in the world and woman's need of the man.  But he was not capable of generalization.  He saw only the antagonism between the concrete, flesh-and-blood Genevieve and the great, abstract, living Game.  Each resented the other, each claimed him; he was torn with the strife, and yet drifted helpless on the currents of their contention.

The secret to a successful career in virtually any field is good public relations. Forget results. Forget the facts. Perception is all that matters.

We've all been guilty at one point or another in our careers of boasting of perfect hindsight. It's a terrible sin. If you don't make sure your questions and concerns are acted upon, it doesn't count.

Life is too short to spend every day doing something you don't love.

Tell them to grab on to the career that engages their brain and heart and soul and gives them meaning. Tell them that eventually, the money will come, and if it doesn't, in time, they will find themselves rich with something money can't buy. And that, obviously, would be happiness.

Every job you take is a gamble that could increase your options or shut them down.

Over the course of your career, your Detroit will surely call you at one point or another. If you can go, that's great. If you can't, make peace with the reasons why.

good academic students were discouraged from taking technical courses, even if the student intended to study engineering at university.