Career Quotes and Sayings

There is no escaping the fact that, even in a great career, sometimes the best advances happen through luck, chance and accident.
Edmond Fischer

I think for more than half of my career I have refrained from talking to the media.
Kathleen Battle

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don’t have a J.O.B.
Fats Domino

I’ve met a few people in my time who were enthusiastic about hard work. And it was just my luck that all of them happened to be men I was working for at the time.
Bill Gold

I’ve been a loyal person all my life and I’d like to finish my career here.
Stuart Law

You look for stars. You look for the makeup of artists who can have long lasting careers and who could be headliners.
Clive Davis

John Travolta said he sometimes lets his friends take control of his airplane even though they don’t know what they’re doing. Then Travolta said he often does the same thing with his career.
Conan O’Brien

If a man love the labour of any trade apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
Robert Louis Stevenson

My career is going better now than when I was younger. Now I get the part. Back then, I’d get the girl.
Michael Caine

Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.
Dale Carnegie

I feel blessed to have had such a career as an actress, truly.
Frances Dee

To play with Zinedine Zidane was the biggest honour I have had in my career
David Beckham

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon … must inevitably come to pass!
Paul J. Meyer

I am very grateful for my career as a tennis player, of course it was flattering being described as ’sexy’ but I never paid much attention to that.
Anke Huber

If you have a job without any aggravations, you don’t have a job.
Malcolm S. Forbes

For many people a job is more than an income - it’s an important part of who we are. So a career transition of any sort is one of the most unsettling experiences you can face in your life.
Paul Clitheroe

It is extremely unlikely that anyone coming out of school with a technical degree will go into one area and stay there. Today’s students have to look forward to the excitement of probably having three or four careers.
Gordon Moore

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.
Herbert Gold

At this point in my career it’s very hard for me to turn down opportunities that I think are auspicious.
Mario Batali

He’s got a family and two young children and he’s slowing down his career. He’s just happy where he is at the moment and you have to respect that
Greg Rusedski

I think I just made the biggest mistake of my career.
Michael Ovitz

Working with Ronnie Barker was always a joy and were without doubt some of the best years of my career.
David Jason

You’re no good unless you are a good assistant; and if you are, you’re too good to be an assistant.
Martin H. Fischer

It’s not what you achieve, it’s what you overcome. That’s what defines your career.
Carlton Fisk

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
C. Northcote Parkinson

Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.
William Lyon Phelps

If you’re a careerist, thinking only to advance your media career, then I don’t really want to work with you.
Michael Moore

Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it’s better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.
Michael Crawford

Your Business clothes are naturally attracted to staining liquids. This attraction is strongest just before an important meeting.
Scott Adams

I was always acting primarily with shareholder interests in mind. It’s also true I’ve always had a fairly moralistic attitude to business, and would not do anything that I considered improper. As a consequence, I have occasionally pursued issues during my career that other people might have avoided.
Chris Corrigan