Career
Definition: Careers: plural noun and third-person present. An occupation undertaken for a
significant period of a person's life and with opportunities for progress. Move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way.
Careers: the plural noun of "career" and the third-person singular present tense form of the verb "to career."
Number of Quotes: 11
Many, if not most, career opportunities come to you through people you know. So the more people you know, the more opportunities you have.
Improving your social network is a great example of a system for moving from lower odds to better odds without having a specific goal.
Scott Adams
My failed corporate career became the fodder for the Dilbert
comic. Once it became clear I would
not be climbing any higher on the corporate ladder, it freed me to mock managers without worrying that it
would stall my career. Most failures create some sort of unplanned freedom. I took full advantage of mine.
Scott Adams
Tomorrow's typical career will be neither linear nor continuous, nor will it
always be upwards. Instead, one's life work will take more of a zig-zag course.
Tom Horton
A new type of woman arises. She is called a career woman. A man is never a career man. That is his right and
privilege. But the woman is called career woman because her career
... demands that she ... even renounce normal life.
C. L. R. James
The power of the position is giving way to the power of the person. A formal title and its placement on an organization
chart have less to do with career prospects and success ... than the skills and ideas a person brings to that work.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
My best career decision was probably not giving up when I wanted to. God as well as my family and friends were there for me during my toughest times.
Jeremy Lin
People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.
John Dos Passos
Whether it's choosing a career or deciding what charity to get involved with, the choice should come from your heart.
Ultimately, you are the one who has to get up every morning and enjoy what you are doing, so make sure it matters to you.
Dave Thomas
I got my start by giving myself a start.
C. J. Walker
Never burn bridges. Today's junior prick, tomorrow's senior partner.
Sigourney Weaver
When you retire ... you go from who's who to who's that, like stepping off the pier (or) achieving statutory senility.
Walter Wriston
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