Top 50 Best Career Advice Quotes
#1. The best career advice to give to the young is, 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.'
Katharine Whitehorn
#2. The smartest people who succeed in their careers for the long-term never stop working hard, never stop building relationships, and never lose touch with their own strengths and weaknesses.
Eric Jackson
#3. Why worry about doing something you love? Figure out what the opportunity is. Find a thing, get good at it, learn to love it later.
Mike Rowe
#4. The Internet had been a BIG help with my career. My advice to musicians, Internet is the key. It gets your music heard all across the world.
Soulja Boy
#5. Make sure that you are fully aware of the work environment which will suit your 'work style' the best.
Abhishek Ratna
#6. Make sure you work at a place which gives you opportunities to learn, travel, explore, interact with intellectuals and new work skills.
Abhishek Ratna
#8. If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.
Sheryl Sandberg
#9. My advice for achieving success is to make a career choice that reflects your passion. Then work your craft a little bit each day-even if someone's not paying you to do It. Try to balance your social life with your educational (or professional) life, and have patience.
Giancarlo Esposito
#10. I've often been given the career advice to not wear too many hats, which, of course, has just encouraged me to wear other hats, such as being a writer, being a curator, or just doing anything outside of the definition of an artist.
Matthew Brannon
#11. I am suggesting that we don't put the "income" cart before the "contentment" horse.
Miles Anthony Smith
#12. My advice to aspiring actors and writers is that your career's success is totally your responsibility. You need to make it happen. There is no end point to an artist's work, no set time line you have to live up to.
Christian Keiber
#13. The surest way to ensure career extinction is to resist change and adaptation.
Miles Anthony Smith
#14. It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other trade.
William S. Burroughs
#15. Even though your time on the job is temporary, if you do a good enough job, your work there will last forever.
Idowu Koyenikan
#16. The worst piece of advice I've gotten in my whole career is from somebody who said, 'Remember, it's all about likeability.'
Clive Owen
#17. I don't even trust myself in my career much less giving somebody else advice.
Tim McGraw
#18. When presented with an open door in your job, drive a Mack truck through it.
Miles Anthony Smith
#19. Sometimes you just need some reassurance about your Choice before you take any decision.
Auliq Ice
#20. Each job requires a conscious choice of career path, and a different plan of development.
Auliq Ice
#21. I married my best friend. I was still in awe after more than four years of being around her at how smart and strong and loving and caring she was. And I really hoped that her choosing me and rejecting my advice to pursue her own career was a decision she would never regret.
William J. Clinton
#22. Writing is a profession that has no real career structure and your best advice when you hit a difficulty is probably going to come from another writer one or two rungs on the career ladder ahead of you.
Sara Sheridan
#23. The best advice is not to write what you know, it's to write what you like. Write the kind of story you like best - write the story you want to read. The same principle applies to your life and your career:
Austin Kleon
#24. Knowing how you want your work to look helps you decide who best to work with and where.
Michele Jennae
#25. It is impossible to pursue a successful literary career and follow the advice of all one's 'best friends'.I feel compelled to follow the light which my own intellect & judgement cast upon my way, rather than any one of the many conflicting rays which other minds would lend me.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#26. His supervisor, a well-liked ranger by the name of Dick McLaren, gave Randy a line of advice to which he would adhere for the rest of his career: 'The best way to teach the public isn't with a citation, it's with communication.
Eric Blehm
#27. If you want to have a career, my advice is don't get married. You think things have changed and there's some kind of gender equality now, that men are different, but I've got news for you. They're not.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#28. What I find really difficult is making career decisions. Normally it will take me two weeks, until the very last minute and I have to say yes or no. For a couple of weeks, I will tune everyone out who is giving me advice, so that I can make a clear decision on my own and it takes time.
Paul Walker
#29. I surround myself with inspirational quotations. This easy-to-follow piece of advice has played a huge role in my being able to get past my own fears and insecurities throughout my entrepreneurial career.
Blake Mycoskie
#30. My advice to young people is to get something that's growing because that's how you get career opportunities thrown at you that you don't deserve, if you will ... that come at you early because the firms need you.
Hamilton E. James
#31. All of the advice that I give, I'm not an expert by any means, but it's just my opinion. So if somebody likes me or likes y style or my career, I think they should have that feeling.
Molly Ringwald
#32. Can't decide which life or career path is right for you? Maybe you don't have to! In The Renaissance Soul, Margaret Lobenstine offers inspiration, advice, and practical tips for people with more than one burning passion.
Laurence Boldt
#33. Never agree to a job interview in which the interviewer has seen you naked.
Susan Mallery
#34. I'd never be where I am if more successful writers hadn't taken an interest in me and done me a good turn - be it chiming in with constructive criticism or giving me sound advice about my career plan.
Sara Sheridan
#35. The lucky people that end up doing what they love even find out somethings that they don't love it as much as they thought.
E. A. Davis
#36. My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't.
Simon Cowell
#37. My advice to any young person at the beginning of their career is to try to look for the mere outlines of big things with their fresh, untrained and unprejudiced mind.
Hans Selye
#39. I've been very, very lucky in my career, in my life - from day one. When aspiring directors say, 'What's your advice?' first I say, 'Be born the son of a famous director. It's invaluable.'
Jason Reitman
#40. While we share the same set of values, we can - and do - have different business interests. Dad has been there to give me career advice along the way, but he has always let me call the play.
Ross Perot Jr.
#41. I was a contact hitter my whole career but I learned how to handle the ball inside. And Ted Williams played a big part in that. He gave me the advice on how to handle inside pitches.
Tony Gwynn
#42. The best advice I got throughout my career was understanding what my current managers' pains and challenges are - it's not always just about hitting the number.
Jim McDonough
#43. Nothing you are choosing to do for yourself is worth the tears and feelings of dread every single morning. NOTHING.
Mary Mihalic
#44. Do you want a level of income to fit your lifestyle or a lifestyle to fit your income level?
Miles Anthony Smith
#45. Hollywood is fickle; your career can end pretty fast. If the acting jobs dry up, you have to have something to fall back on. In fact, that would be my advice to kids interested in acting - make sure you get an education too.
Matthew Lawrence
#46. Develop a mentor at each stage of your career - someone who will give you guidance and advice.
Brian Tracy
#47. Many years ago when I first started my career Maradona told me "to enjoy and play as you know", and that's stayed with me ever since and is the best advice I've been given.
Lionel Messi
#48. My advice is to make acting your second career choice.
Amber Tamblyn
#49. Riffing on language will create wonderful effects you never intended. Which leads me to this writing advice: 'Always take credit for good stuff you didn't intend, because you'll be getting plenty of criticism in your career for bad stuff you didn't mean either.'
Roy Peter Clark
#50. I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
Gloria Steinem
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