Career Quotes and Sayings

We pretend to work because they pretend to pay us.
Anonymous

Monday is a lame way to spend 1/7 of your life.
Anonymous

A born writer is born scrofulous; his career is an accident dictated by physical or circumstantial disabilities.
Dylan Thomas

It wasn’t as though I really made a commitment to it; there wasn’t anything else around. So I wasn’t driven to become an actor.. it just seemed to be the thing that I managed to do best.
Paul Newman

I’m probably going to have to work hard on my right knee for the rest of my career
Michael Vaughan

Many people quit looking for work when they find a job.
Anonymous

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr

I’ve reached the pinnacle of my career. I just feel that I don’t have anything else to prove.
Michael Jordan

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Confucius

The number one sign you have nothing to do at work: The 4th Division of Paperclips has overrun the Pushpin Infantry and General White-Out has called for a new skirmish.
Fred Barling

The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.
Marcel Achard

Desire! That’s the one secret of every man’s career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.
Bobby Unser

In years to come I may go solo. But at the moment I haven’t got time time to wash my face, never mind think about my future career.
Nadine Coyle

When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.
Calvin Klein

I’m still at the beginning of my career. It’s all a little new, and I’m still learning as I go.
Orlando Bloom

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.
Robert Orben

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
John G. Pollard

Don’t accept that others know you better than yourself. Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.
James Allen

Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.
Howard Aiken

You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job.
Liev Schreiber

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.
Honore de Balza

Don’t waste time learning the “tricks of the trade.” Instead, learn the trade.
James Charlton & H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

He’s beloved. Not many players become what he has become. You know that he [Agassi] is going to be equally famous and equally successful in his post career.
Lindsay Davenport

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
Og Mandino

My career was very short lived.
Kitty Carlisle

My advice would be: if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don’t.
X Factor

This is the best result in my career upto now
Sofia Arvidsson

I wasn’t running toward the theater but running away from the sporting goods store. Of course now that I’m selling spaghetti sauce (with Newman’s Own), I begin to understand the romance of business.. the allure of being the biggest fish in the pond and the juice you get from beating out your competitors.
Paul Newman

The one thing that’s hurt in my career is people saying I don’t want to come out of Manchester or fight people.
Ricky Hatton