Successful Career Quotes

• Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Successful, Careers, Envy

  "Helen Gurley Brown: how to have it all" by Sali Hughes, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2012.

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• What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: 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 Fairless

  Motivational, Success, Teamwork

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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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  Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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  Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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  The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.71, Thomas Nelson

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• I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

  Lou Holtz (1990). “The Fighting Spirit: A Championship Season at Notre Dame”

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• All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

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• Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Motivational, Careers, New Job

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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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• If you think you can't, you're right.

  Carol Bartz

  Inspirational, Positive, Smart

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• You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

  Mae West

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Mae West: 'YOLO,' Before YOLO Was a Thing", bigthink.com. September 25, 2015.

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• A successful career will no longer be about promotion. It will be about mastery.

  Michael Martin Hammer

  Successful, Careers, Discipline

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• You build a successful career, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Success, Jobs

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Aug 28, 2014

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• Do what you love and success will follow. Passion is the fuel behind a successful career.

  Meg Whitman

  Passion, Successful, Careers

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• The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns them into ultimate things. Our hearts deify them as the center of our lives, because, we think, they can give us significance and security, safety and fulfillment, if we attain them.

  Timothy Keller

  Love, Family, Success

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• It doesn't matter if you're good. If you're just good, you won't succeed. If you have patience and persistence and talent and that's it, you will not have a successful career as an actor. The elusive thing you need is luck.

  Bryan Cranston

  Successful, Persistence, Careers

  "The Last Stand of Walter White". Interview with Brett Martin, www.gq.com. July 15, 2013.

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• Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent, perseverance, patience, but without luck you will not have a successful career.

  Bryan Cranston

  Perseverance, Art, Successful

  "Bryan Cranston: 'I had to take my character from Mr Chips to Scarface'". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2012.

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• Probably any successful career has X number of breaks in it, and maybe the difference between successful people and those who aren't super achievers is taking advantage of those breaks.

  Joan Ganz Cooney

  Successful, Careers, Differences

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• I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Successful, College, Careers

  "Beautiful and damned". Interview with Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2006.

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• Do you want a successful career or a close relationship with your family? Both! Do you want a focus on business or have fun and play? Both! Do you want money or meaning in your life? Both! Do you want to earn a fortune or do the work you love? Both! Poor people always choose one, rich people choose both.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Life, Fun

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Dec 16, 2013

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• Claim whatever you want. Say you only want a happy family or a successful career or a big house. I say: no, that's not what you want. You'll settle for those things, but you really want a monkey that does your evil bidding. Pullman is a genius just for this.

  Maureen Johnson

  Successful, Careers, Evil

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• They want to play at being mothers. So let them. Expressing tenderness in their own way will not prevent girls from enjoying a successful career in the future; indeed, the ability to nurture is as valuable a skill in the workplace as the ability to lead.

  Anne Roiphe

  Girl, Mother, Successful

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• I know a lot of actors who started out as musicians and have very successful careers as actors, but most people don't know them as musicians.

  Rick Springfield

  Successful, Careers, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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