Inspiring Career Quotes

• If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

  Epictetus

  Life, Stupid, Silly

  Epictetus (2012). “The Handbook of Epictetus”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Real

  Ford Times, Vol. 6, p. 136, 1912.

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• If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Mastery, Genius

  As quoted in "Speeches & Presentations Unzipped" by Lori Rozakis, (p. 71), 2007.

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• Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure. You've got to find the treasure, so that everything you have learned along the way can make sense.

  Paulo Coelho

  Heart, Alchemist, Treasure

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• You don't need to win every medal to be successful.

  Jason Fried

  Successful, Winning, Needs

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