Careers Quotes

• I have the good fortune of knowing both John McCain and Donald Trump well, both men have more in common than the today's media hype would have you believe. Both blazed trails in their careers and love our great nation.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Nation

• You've got to be a little vicious. You've got to be narcissistic. You've got to be on fire about your career.

  

  Howard Stern
  • Fire
  • Vicious
  • Narcissistic

• List 20 things you are going to do in the next 30 days to fast-start your career. Then take action on at least one of them.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Career
  • Action
  • Next

• Having previously graduated from a 2-year commercial arts class, I thought that commercial illustration was the best way to make a living doing art. But the more tattoos that I did, the more I realized what artistic career potential tattooing had and I enjoyed it.

  

  William Webb
  • Artistic
  • Tattoo
  • Enjoyed

• Maybe "having enough" has a second meaning beyond the basic economic security a family needs. Maybe it means accepting that a rich full life with a job and family will be rewarding, but it certainly won't be perfect. As many of us who have combined kids and careers know all too well, some days it's really pretty messy. And that's OK.

  

  Kristine Carlin Bay
  • Family
  • Careers
  • Combined

• I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career.

  

  Miriam Makeba
  • Reflection
  • Albums
  • Reflecting

• I remember going to my school careers advisor and asked about jobs that required scuba divers. It was a phase.

  

  Paul Putner
  • School
  • Remember
  • Jobs

• I have always made impresarios a lot of money across my career and have never, so far as I am aware, given any of them heart attacks.

  

  Montserrat Caballe
  • Money
  • Heart
  • Attack

• I'm good friends with The Rock, and I talk to him all the time. And he says that, even though his movie career has taken off, he misses the instant gratification of wrestling, and the live crowds, and I could see being that way myself.

  

  Trish Stratus
  • Friends
  • Taken
  • Wrestling

• I think playing cricket taught me more about working in teams and leadership that has stayed with me throughout my career.

  

  Satya Nadella
  • Thinking
  • Team
  • Taught

• Oh my God, you're serious. Honey, I am a six time Women's Champion, if you get into the ring with me it will not be for a Lingerie Pillow Fight, it will not be to shoot t-shirts. If you get into the ring with me I will end your career just like that. Are you sure that's what you want?

  

  Trish Stratus
  • Fighting
  • Serious
  • Champion

• People like to cherry-pick the parts of their career that they're either in the midst of or that they're the most proud of, but the truth is careers and lives are tapestries.

  

  Mike Rowe
  • People
  • Proud
  • Picks

• When I was young, I flirted with the idea of a career in journalism on one hand and politics on the other.

  

  Sebastian Arcelus
  • Politics
  • Careers
  • Journalism

• It is a tough business but if you get yourself in a situation like I, you can maintain a career over many years. That, to me, is a successful actor.

  

  Ray Stevenson
  • Actors
  • Successful
  • Situation

• Naming things, breaking through taboos and denial is the most dangerous, terrifying, and crucial work. This has to happen in spite of political climates or coercions, in spite of careers being won or lost, in spite of the fear of being criticized, outcast, or disliked. I believe freedom begins with naming things. Humanity is preserved by it.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Work
  • Political
  • Freedom

• Women have to take more control of their careers. They can't just wait to be cast in a film.

  

  Richard LaGravenese
  • Waiting
  • Careers

• I had in mind a long career.

  

  Eve Arnold
  • Careers

• Solving specific problems is what drives me. I am not interested in having a career. I never have been.

  

  Sean Parker
  • Problem
  • Careers

• Throughout my early career, I would write from five to ten in the morning every day before going to my office, a habit that has stayed with me since.

  

  Warren Adler
  • Writing
  • Morning
  • Habit

• Being rejected is not nice, and it never gets any easier no matter where you are in your career.

  

  Rupert Penry-Jones
  • Nice
  • Matter
  • Easier

• I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.

  

  Rod Stewart
  • Difficult
  • Secret
  • Knowing

• I started my career as a sales guy in the nineties, when the funnel was controlled by the sales rep, who had all the information the prospect wanted, including pricing and discount options. Now 90 percent of it has swung to marketing. It's self-service and you need to be very, very helpful to see to the top of the funnel. The game has changed a lot.

  

  Brian Halligan
  • Guy
  • Games
  • Changed

• Thank God I didn't put my career over family. That would have been the biggest mistake of my life. I'm really happy it went the way it did.

  

  Leslie Mann
  • Happy
  • Mistake
  • Really

• I try to keep things as varied as possible in my career, and after playing something as fun and over the top as Maryann on 'True Blood,' I wanted to find something antithetical to that.

  

  Michelle Forbes
  • Trying
  • Wanted
  • Blood

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