Top 100 Career Advice Quotes
#1. 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
#2. I don't get much career advice at all, and I would like some.
Jessica Valenti
#3. Young people are looking for meaning and happiness to accompany their first paycheque. Inspire Your Career provides career advice designed to help you find more than just material success. Through its empowering and practical lessons, readers will find inspiration as they embark on their careers.
Marc Kielburger
#4. 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
#5. God has been my number one inspiration. I also look up to Will Smith and Jamie Fox who are also personal friends of mine. They give me great career advice. I would also include Chris Stokes, as a filmmaker and music producer. I've been working with him since I was eight.
Marques Houston
#6. I'd like to believe that achieving a leadership position is all about competency, capability and ambition, so I try not to distinguish between the sexes when it comes to giving career advice.
Heather Bresch
#7. My first piece of career advice is find your gifting. Find the thing that you are skilled at and figure out if you can make a living doing it.
Michelle Singletary
#8. I rarely need career advice because I don't have a career. No, that's not true. I can't really go far away while my kids are living with me.
Nicole Holofcener
#9. 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.
#10. There remains a natural career progression even though the tougher job climate seeks to delay it.
Miles Anthony Smith
#12. You either have to write or you shouldn't be writing. That's all.
Joss Whedon
#13. The most important step in the whole process was to just sit down and do it. My hobby has become a second career. Who knew?-Jamie Beck, Romance Novelist
Holly Hurd
#14. The further your job is from the money, the closer you are to the bullshit.
Tim Heaton
#16. Your career growth depends mainly on how well you can articulate and present your performance review.
Abhishek Ratna
#17. Dear GIRLS your very own identity is more important than a marriage certificate.
Amit Abraham
#18. We spend far too much of our lives at work to have it be in opposition to the person we desire to be.
Scott Hammerle
#19. When you are conscious you have all the relationships you choose to have. When you choose to be healthy and prosperous you are clear about what your body requires and the direction your career is headed.
Frank Natale
#20. Knowing how you want your work to look helps you decide who best to work with and where.
Michele Jennae
#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. Finding a job that is a good fit is as much about you selecting the right company as it is about them selecting the right candidate.
Miles Anthony Smith
#23. An educated person would know that holding a degree will not make you entitled to a better job nor a better salary than someone who has no degree.
J.B.
#24. I've broken a cardinal rule of art, music, and career paths: actors are supposed to act, and musicians are supposed to music. That's how it works. You don't buy fish from a dentist, or ask a plumber for financial advice, so why listen to an actor's music?
Hugh Jackman
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. My advice for young Latinas interested in pursuing a career in Hollywood is to make sure you love to perform and make sure you get the training you need.
Maria Canals Barrera
#28. Job change is a very crucial decision. This decision can make or break your career.
Abhishek Ratna
#29. Ever day you spend at work is a foundation for your future.
Abhishek Ratna
#30. I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career and I cheesed off people without even knowing it, all the while thinking I was implementing good advice.
Douglas Coupland
#31. Looking back, it made no sense for my college friends and me to distance ourselves from the hard-won achievements of earlier feminists. We should have cheered their efforts. Instead, we lowered our voices, thinking the battle was over, and with this reticence we hurt ourselves.
Sheryl Sandberg
#32. My career was quite unusual, so my main advice to someone interested in a career similar to my own is to remain open to change and new opportunities. I like to tell students that the jobs I took after my Ph.D. were not in existence only a few years before.
Nancy Roman
#33. The goal is to create a "chit," or IOU, so that, assuming you continue to perform well, the organization feels like it owes you the next time.
Carla Harris
#34. Whereas previous generations had to face some unpredictability, current generations are facing unprecedented levels of instability.
Miles Anthony Smith
#35. Losing my father at a tender age was hard, and I felt it more so while growing up when I needed a father to talk to. Especially while pursuing an acting career where I would have loved his guidance and advice, since it was his passion as well.
Ajay Mehta
#36. Adaptability is the name of the game; if you understand that you must now be adaptable and flexible, you will find a way to succeed in your career. If not, you will succumb to job market pressures.
Miles Anthony Smith
#37. Keep up with what's causing chaos in your own field.
John Waters
#38. 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
#39. Colum McCann, after I explicitly asked for advice regarding my career. He said: Don't be a dick.
Anonymous
#40. Doing something later is not automatically the same as doing something better
Meg Jay
#42. Success is a matter of choice, not chance ~ Deepak Mehra
Deepak Mehra
#43. What someone may lack in talent can be more than made up for in self-motivation, self-direction, and follow-through.
Miles Anthony Smith
#44. I guess my music career is my personal life. You know, I've always been a writer who wants to write about my experiences. And so this experience being added to that, I - I want to live extraordinary experiences. And when I give advice to people, I want it to be sage advice.
Jason Mraz
#45. In the name of all that is holy, please consider the wages of a particular profession before you select that degree plan.
Miles Anthony Smith
#46. If I had any advice to give people, it would be to relax; never treat an audition like an emergency. There will be plenty more in your career. If you think you messed up, you probably didn't. And if you did mess up, it's not the end of the world.
Gregg Sulkin
#47. Money is perhaps the single most important parameter which influences our decision when it comes to a job.
Abhishek Ratna
#49. 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
#50. Treat yourself like a fast person with aches and pains and a suitcase full of excuses, and good luck
you'll stay exactly where you are. Train like an athlete and, though you may not look like one now, you will become one.
Push: 30 Days to Turbocharged Habits, p. 214
Chalene Johnson
#51. In regards to planning your career, you need to treat it (your career) just like a business.
Auliq Ice
#52. I remember once being told by a casting person, years ago, that I shouldn't pursue a career in the business because of the color of my skin. The fact that I remember it today means it stuck with me. I thought that was really stupid advice and advice nobody should ever give someone.
Manish Dayal
#53. I enjoyed every bit of my swimming career. I think that's the most important advice - to enjoy what you do
Summer Sanders
#54. One of the grave dangers inherent in the various stages of any theatrical career-whether it be budding, quiescent or diminishing-is the advice of friends.
Moss Hart
#56. I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
Gloria Steinem
#57. 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
#58. My advice is to make acting your second career choice.
Amber Tamblyn
#59. 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
#60. Develop a mentor at each stage of your career - someone who will give you guidance and advice.
Brian Tracy
#61. 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
#62. Do you want a level of income to fit your lifestyle or a lifestyle to fit your income level?
Miles Anthony Smith
#63. Nothing you are choosing to do for yourself is worth the tears and feelings of dread every single morning. NOTHING.
Mary Mihalic
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't.
Simon Cowell
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. Never agree to a job interview in which the interviewer has seen you naked.
Susan Mallery
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. The surest way to ensure career extinction is to resist change and adaptation.
Miles Anthony Smith
#79. At my first job as an independent researcher at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, they told me I could work on most anything, but not what I knew something about. That is actually very good advice to a young person starting a career because you bring new ideas to the field.
Mildred S. Dresselhaus
#80. Never depend on a single income. Make Investments to create a second source." - Warren Buffet
Archie Lee
#82. If we don't communicate, we certainly can't get much done and if we don't communicate authentically, what we get done is less effective.
Michele Jennae
#83. Each job requires a conscious choice of career path, and a different plan of development.
Auliq Ice
#84. Sometimes you just need some reassurance about your Choice before you take any decision.
Auliq Ice
#85. When presented with an open door in your job, drive a Mack truck through it.
Miles Anthony Smith
#86. I don't even trust myself in my career much less giving somebody else advice.
Tim McGraw
#87. 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
#88. Even though your time on the job is temporary, if you do a good enough job, your work there will last forever.
Idowu Koyenikan
#89. 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
#90. Labor saving devices have destroyed many jobs but have given rise to many new ones. It simply is up to us if we are going to resist or embrace the future.
Miles Anthony Smith
#91. 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
#92. I am suggesting that we don't put the "income" cart before the "contentment" horse.
Miles Anthony Smith
#93. 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
#94. If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.
Sheryl Sandberg
#96. Make sure you work at a place which gives you opportunities to learn, travel, explore, interact with intellectuals and new work skills.
Abhishek Ratna
#97. Make sure that you are fully aware of the work environment which will suit your 'work style' the best.
Abhishek Ratna
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
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