Careers Quotes - Page 4

• Don't confuse having a career with having a life.

  Hillary Clinton

  Balance, Work And Life, Politics

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• Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

  Denis Waitley

  Time, Money, Majority

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• You know, there has never been a 24-hour period in five years when I have not responded to e-mail at Facebook. I am not saying it's easy. I work long hours.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Work, Women, Years

  "Sheryl Sandberg: 'No one can have it all'". Interview with Joanna Barsh, alumni.mckinsey.com. April 24, 2013.

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• I think now is our time. My mother was told by everyone that she had two choices: She could be a nurse or a teacher. The external barriers now are just so much lower. If we start acknowledging what the real issues are, we can solve them. It's not that hard.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Mother, Teacher, Real

  "'Now Is Our Time'". Harvard Business Review interview, hbr.org. April 2013.

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• I am saying that I was able to mold those hours around the needs of my family, and that matters. And I really encourage other people at Facebook to mold hours around themselves.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Work, Women, People

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• Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

  Abdul Kalam

  Strength, Young Generation, Climbing

  Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, Arun Tiwari (1999). “Wings of Fire: An Autobiography”, p.90, Universities Press

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• The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning it.

  Horace Greeley

  Money, Men, Earning It

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• When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated, and ambitious.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Work, Women, Smart

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.124, Knopf

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• The things that hold women back, hold them back from sitting at the boardroom table and they hold women back from speaking at the PTA meeting.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Work, Women, Tables

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• Everyone knows that marriage is the biggest personal decision you make, but it's the biggest career decision you can make.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Work, Women, Decisions You Make

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• The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

  Laozi

  Flower, Two, Taoism

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• Every woman I know, particularly the senior ones, has been called too aggressive at work. We know in gender blind studies that men are more aggressive in their offices than women. We know that. Yet we're busy telling all the women that they're too aggressive. That's the issue.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Senior, Work, Women

  "Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg: who are you calling bossy?" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2014.

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• I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.

  Jill Clayburgh

  Birthday, Inspiring, Children

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• I'd worked on leprosy and malaria in India [at the World Bank] and asked myself the question: Why do we let 2 million children die every year around the world for not having clean water? Because they're faceless and nameless. So, for me, Facebook looked like it was going to solve the problem of the invisible victim.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Children, Work, Women

  "Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg: who are you calling bossy?" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2014.

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• You're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Positive, Happiness

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• What is the recipe for successful achievement? Choose a career you love. Give it the best there is in you. Seize your opportunities. And be a member of the team.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Team, Successful, Opportunity

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• Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.

  Bobby Unser

  Motivational, Positive, Men

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• I just believed. I believed that the technology would change people's lives. I believed putting real identity online - putting technology behind real identity - was the missing link.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Work, Women, Real

  "Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg: who are you calling bossy?" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2014.

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• I remember going to my school careers advisor and asked about jobs that required scuba divers. It was a phase.

  Paul Putner

  Jobs, School, Phases

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• But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'

  Gertrude Stein

  Men, Problem, Speak

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• I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums.

  Ice T

  Rap, Albums, Want

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• A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn't have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible.

  Maria Sharapova

  Believe, Helping Others, Years

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• Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life and careers.

  Layne Staley

  Song, Perception, Stage

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• The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Happy, Encouraging

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• Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Romantic, Classic, Remember

  In Robert Craft 'Conversations with Igor Stravinsky' (1958)

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