Career Decision Quotes

#1. My best career decision was probably not giving up when I wanted to. God as well as my family and friends were there for me during my toughest times.

Jeremy Lin

#2. Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you're not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.

Paul Auster

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

Sheryl Sandberg

#4. Every Olympic athlete prepares differently. For me, I am 100 percent into the sport. And if I decide to really make a crucial career decision to say, 'This is something I want to do,' I want to leave no stone unturned in my preparation.

Apolo Ohno

#5. I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it.

John L. Phillips

#6. What I would pay much more attention to are the few points where the player can inadvertently make a career decision. Most players end up back-tracking, though some actually enjoy this.

Graham Nelson

#7. I truly believe that the single most important career decision that a woman makes is whether she will have a life partner and who that partner is.

Sheryl Sandberg

#8. The most important career decision you'll make is who your life partner is.

Sheryl Sandberg

#9. The last time I had to make a career decision, I was 17. I could have gone to Ballet Theatre or National Ballet of Canada. There were options. But as I became exposed to the Robbins repertoire, I realized that there was a living genius in the house.

Damian Woetzel

#10. First of all the criteria that I have that goes into any career decision is whether or not I have the life experience, emotional resources to play the part truthfully or the imagination. Second, would be the director.

Nicolas Cage

#11. I've said yes to everything that Jon Stewart has asked me to do. That's been a pretty good career decision, I think.

John Oliver

#12. The myth is that women and their families don't have to make trade-offs to have an 'extreme career'; they absolutely do. How you prioritize your life and career is your choice. Once you make a decision, stick to it; don't always second-guess yourself.

Angela Braly

#13. Throughout my career, no matter what I've done or what decision I've made, I've made it with my family first. My priority was taking care of my family while I was taking care of business.

Mindy Grossman

#14. Whatever career you're in, assume it's going to be a massive failure. That way, you're not making decisions based on success, money and career. You're only making it based on doing what you love.

Brian Chesky

#15. The assumption that people sometimes make is that I have made a cold, calculated decision to put my career ahead of having family, and that's not true.

Nicola Sturgeon

#16. Whilst acting is my career, architecture is my passion. Selecting this development as my first major construction project has been a simple decision. It will underpin not only my values for environmentally friendly architecture, but also embrace my career in entertainment

Brad Pitt

#17. Leaving my first agent was both my best business decision and my worst business decision. It depends on how I want to look at my career because of opportunities that may have come had I stayed with him and because of the opportunities that did come because I had to fight harder for roles.

Carmen Ejogo

#18. Last year, the surgery was a tough decision, but I had to make a decision based on my career. It was a decision to get healthy, and start over with a new team at 100 percent.

Brian Jordan

#19. I learned a lot about working with children, and about myself, and it reinforced my decision to pursue a career in teaching.

Carolyn Murphy

#20. Art is one of the few products that is almost a totally emotional buy. It is a mystery what contributes to a person's personal taste. However, being educated about the artist and his/her career may influence your decision regarding a purchase.

Ernest West Basden

#21. The decision to move to the second post-college city (or suburb, or town), however, is usually made independent of friends. No matter if you do it for love, career, family, or school, the second move is on your own terms.

Rachel Bertsche

#22. I made a conscious decision to earn enough to be able to choose my husband rather than not have a career and marry someone who would have to earn enough for us both to live on.

Sarah Beeny

#23. Job change is a very crucial decision. This decision can make or break your career.

Abhishek Ratna

#24. Having a more experienced and successful counselor guiding someone in a chosen profession is wise decision and good career move.

Jose A. Aviles

#25. Money is perhaps the single most important parameter which influences our decision when it comes to a job.

Abhishek Ratna

#26. Design is a career where you learn creative decision making.

Biz Stone

#27. And I do think that earlier in my career, I did make a very conscious decision to make sure that I was doing work that wasn't necessarily given to me, and that people didn't necessarily think that I would be able to do.

Charlize Theron

#28. I had to make a major decision with myself because I just don't think you can do both: try to have a baby career and raise it and have a baby baby and raise it. And to try to do justice to either one. It was a very conscious decision on my part not to have children - which I have never regretted.

Betty White

#29. My research career has been devoted to understanding human decision-making and problem-solving processes. The pursuit of this goal has led me into the fields of political science, economics, cognitive psychology, computer science and philosophy of science, among others.

Herbert A. Simon

#30. Would I sacrifice a friendship to take a step forward in my political career? Thus far in my political career, I have been spared from having to make such a decision, thank God. And I can't imagine what it must be like.

Martin Schulz

#31. Any decision that's made about my career is ultimately my decision, and it's helped me not to plan too much. I've never been the guy thinking, 'I want to do a play this year, I want to do this kind of movie or this kind of character.' I don't have that sort of control.

Craig Bierko

#32. I just want to be really careful with decisions I make. When you make a decision about your career, it changes your life in a really big way.

Michael Cera

#33. The only thing that was economic, I might say, about my music career, aside from the fact that I did everybody's tax returns in the band, was the decision I made to leave the music business on economic grounds.

Alan Greenspan

#34. You get in trouble, you have to evaluate: Is it worth getting into trouble again? It's a lot easier to make that decision when you have a career at stake.

Robert Iler

#35. It was the hardest decision of his coaching career so I accepted that I should be No 1 and that was it

Jens Lehmann

#36. Choosing to be loved and to take the leap to get married younger than most of my friends was not a career-limiting decision for me.

Dana Perino

#37. In the hands of a determined Secretary, the Foreign Service can be a splendid instrument, staffed by knowledgeable, discreet, and energetic individuals. They do require constant vigilance lest the convictions that led them into a penurious career tempt them to preempt decision-making.

Henry A. Kissinger

#38. For me, family is life. The decision to start one wasn't complex at all. My career has been wonderful, but it's not my life. I don't feel pressure to get back to work.

Miranda Kerr

#39. 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

#40. There was a time when I was fighting with the decision as to whether or not a Hasidic man could go out and have a music career in the world and be involved in pop culture. For me, I was able to bring those two things together for quite some time.

Matisyahu

#41. I'm constantly thinking about what I'll do next. I never count on music being a career of longevity. I mean, longevity is key, and I hope that it lasts, but you just don't know, because it's not in your hands, you don't make the decision.

Beth Ditto

#42. Many people fail in their career, business and relationship, and others get stuck because of their inability to make quality decisions.

Nkem Paul

#43. My career as a model. I was due to go to University. It was a risk but it was the right decision.

Lucy Pinder

#44. The most important decision I ever made in my career was to live my life in sports as honestly and ethically as possible. Never having compromised my values allows me to look back on my life with no regrets and feel satisfaction in what I was able to accomplish.

Greg LeMond

#45. Trust not what inspires other members of society to choose as a career. Trust what inspires you. From this decision alone will come over a third of your satisfaction or misery in your life.

Ernie J Zelinski

#46. Making a decision reduces opportunities in the short run, but increases opportunities in the long run. To move forward in your career, you have to commit to specific opportunities as part of an iterative plan, despite doubt and despite inconvenience.

Reid Hoffman

#47. I stand by every decision I've made throughout my career and my life, good or bad, up or down.

David Coverdale

#48. It's not an irrational decision, I've been thinking about this for quite a while and maybe it'll be good for me [on his career break

Ronnie O'Sullivan

#49. I'm quite spontaneous in my decisions often. Your career is kind of what happens whilst you're busy developing other screenplays, and so it came out of the blue.

Joe Wright

#50. I believe that knowing when to leave one's employer is a critical success factor in building a career, assuming that the logic behind one's decision makes some sense.

Catherine Fredman

#51. 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

#52. Everything in my career is my decision - every picture, every outfit. You get one chance at this, and I never saw myself as being a puppet.

Katherine Jenkins

#53. Choosing a spouse and a choosing career: the two great decisions for which society refuses to set up institutional guidance.

Alain De Botton

#54. I raise money the old fashioned way, I go out and tell people what I think. And I say to them, "If you hire me, I'm a CEO, and I'll listen to you. But at the end of the day, I'm going to make the decision, something I've done throughout my whole career with, frankly, great success."

Rick Santorum

#55. Peter Forsberg's skills and determination made him one of the most powerful forwards in the NHL during the best years of his career. Hearing of his retirement is sad news but one day every athlete has to come to this decision. He should be very proud of all he accomplished throughout his career.

Patrick Roy

#56. I had a great career in Australia, so it was a hard decision to move to America. But in 2010, I was asked to audition for the part Melissa McCarthy ended up playing in 'Bridesmaids.'

Rebel Wilson

#57. When you make the decision to start something new, first figure out the jobs you want to do. Then position yourself to play where no one else is playing.

Whitney Johnson

#58. To be stuck with that Kardashian label, that was so hurtful to me and to my career. I probably realized that too late - not that it would've affected my decisions in terms of who I dated, but it would've affected my decision to appear on the show.

Adrienne Bailon

#59. I think doing the podcast may have been one of the best career decisions I've ever made in my life.

Chris Hardwick

#60. Sometimes you just need some reassurance about your Choice before you take any decision.

Auliq Ice

#61. Early in my career as an engineer, I'd learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.

Ben Horowitz

#62. I realized much later in life that the reason this decision between MIT and IBM was so agonizing was because it wasn't really about choosing a career; it was about deciding who I was, which part of myself I wanted to be, and that's the hardest decision any of us has to make.

Mike Massimino

#63. Maybe I wanted children, maybe I didn't, but I wanted the decision to be a choice, not a mandate. Last time I checked, childlessness was only supposed to be a condition of career advancement for nuns.

Peggy Orenstein