CAREER QUOTES

What we do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?
-George Eliot

Give the world the best you have and the best will come back to you.
-Madeline Bridges

There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively, and qualitatively,

between what you contribute and what you get out of this world.
-Oscar Hammerstein II

Help your brothers boat across, and your own will reach the shore.
-Hindu proverb

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,

and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
-Frank Lloyd Wright

Success follows doing what you want to do.

There is no other way to be successful.
-Malcolm Forbes

The happy people are those who are producing something.

-William Ralph Inge

The man who uses his skill and constructive imagination

 to see how MUCH he can give for a dollar,
instead of how LITTLE he can give for a dollar,
is bound to be successful.
-Henry Ford

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it,
is the key to happiness.
-John Dewey

Happiness loves to see men work. She loves sweat, weariness, self-sacrifice.
She will not be found in the palaces, but lurking in the cornfields and factories,
and hovering over littered desks.
-David Grayson

The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth.
-Wilfred Grenfell

Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
-Buddha

To make a difference in life, find out what is needed and wanted and produce it.
-Werner Erhard

Work is an extension of personality. It is achievement.

It is one of the ways in which a person defines himself,
measures his worth, and his humanity.
-Peter F. Drucker

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired

and get paid just enough money not to quit.
George Carlin

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer.

 He fails to make his place good in the world unless he not only pays his debt
but also ads something to the common wealth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men, for the sake of getting a living, forget to live.

Margaret Fuller

When work is pleasure, life is a joy.

When work is a duty, life is slavery.
Maxim Gorky

Its not work, if you love what youre doing.

Steve Sears

It took me twenty years to become an overnight success.

Eddie Cantor

Find a need and fill it.

Henry J. Kaiser

Do your work with your whole heart and you will succeed- there is so little competition!
Elbert Hubbard

The whole secret of a successful life

is to find out what it is ones destiny to do,
and then do it.
Henry Ford

In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose

a productive purpose.
Ayn Rand
 What you are will show in what you do.
-Thomas Edison

The world has a way of giving what is demanded of it.

If you are frightened and look for failure and poverty,
you will get them, no matter how hard you may try to succeed.
Lack of faith in yourself, in what life will do for you,
cuts you off from the good things of the world.
Expect victory and you make victory. Nowhere is this truer than in business life,
where bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards.
-Preston Bradley

What one has, one ought to use;

and whatever he does, he should do it with all his might.
-Cicero

And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily.

-Col. 3:23

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
-Charles M. Schwab

The real secret of success in enthusiasm.

Yes, more than enthusiasm, I would say excitement. I like to see men get excited.
When they get excited they make a success out of their lives.
-Walter Chrysler

If youre not happy every morning when you get up, leave for work, start work at home-
if youre not enthusiastic about doing that, youre not going to be successful.
-Donald M. Kendall

He did it with all his heart, and prospered.

 -2 Chr. 31:21

Success follows doing what you love to do.

There is no other way to be successful.
-Malcolm Forbes

The road to happiness lies in two simple principles:

find what it is that interests you and that you can do well,
and when you find it, put your whole soul into it-
every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.
-John D. Rockefeller III

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman Ive ever known.
-Walt Disney

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

-John Ruskin

What a man accomplishes in a day depends on how he approaches his tasks.

When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability
and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.
When we do our work with a dynamic, conquering spirit, we get things done.
-Arland Gilbert

Striving for success without hard work is like

trying to harvest where you havent planted.
David Bly

The big secret in life is that there is no big secret.

Whatever your goal, you can get there if youre willing to work.
-Oprah Winfrey
 The person who makes a success of living

is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.

That is dedication.

-Cecil B. DeMille

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
Wayne Dyer

You've achieved success in your field

when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
-Warren Beatty

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win,
by fearing to attempt.
-William Shakespeare

Its easy to make a buck. Its a lot tougher to make a difference.

-Tom Brokaw

I dont want my tombstone to read,

He did tolerable stuff for tolerable people because they paid him.
-David Maister

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

-Anita Roddick

I dream for a living.

-Steven Spielberg

Hire people with a special kind of stupidity, who ignore or reject

 how things are supposed to be done around here.
-Robert Sutton

The premier untapped leadership talent in the world today rests with women!
-Tom Peters

There is a growing legion of business people who are hungry to build something
of enduring character on a set of values they can be proud of.
-Jim Collins

Good enough never is.

-Debra Field

Is there anything you are so passionate about that you would be willing to work
40 hours a week without pay just to do it?

Would you prefer to be thought of as naturally talented or hardworking?

All mankind is divided into three classes:

those that are immoveable, those that are moveable, and those that move.
-Arab Proverb

The challenge today is not knowledge, it is insight.

You must bring your heart and head to work.
-Gary Hamel

What were you born to do?

In the new world of work, passion and expertise are the Rosetta stone.
-Julie Anixter

Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it.

 Autograph your work with excellence.
-Unknown

As time goes by are you enjoying your work more or less?

Overcome the sense that to have a good career,

youve got to compromise or cut corners
that youve got to go along to get along.
We think thats bad advice.
-William Damon

The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world
are the ones who do.
-Apple Computer, Inc.

My work is a game, a very serious game.

-M.C. Escher

Were all filled with naturally recurring patterns that make us unique.
Theyre called talents. And our charge is to bloody well use them.
-Marcus Buckingham

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
-G.W.F. Hegel

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
-Walter Bagehot

I told Michael to go into math, because thats where the money is.
-Former math teacher of Michael Jordan

I tell my staffs, If the solution youre proposing isnt simpler

 than what were doing today, then dont even bother telling me about it.
-Peter Foss, GE

Weve gone from meeting customer expectations, to exceeding customer expectations,

to delighting customers, to customer ecstasy. I hate to see what comes next.
-Len Schlesinger