Career Advice Quotes

“Even though your time on the job is temporary, if you do a good enough job, your work there will last forever.”
― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

“You either have to write or you shouldn't be writing. That's all.”
― Joss Whedon

“If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.”
― Sheryl Sandberg

“Feeling confident - or pretending that you feel confident - is necessary to reach for opportunities. It's a cliché, but opportunities are rarely offered; they're seized".”
― Sheryl Sandberg

“The proof is in the pudding. No one will believe in your skills and talents until you put them into action. Continuously telling people that you’re good at something, isn’t enough. They need to be able to see it to take you seriously.”
― Robin S. Baker

“A job that offers more scope for learning is better for your career success than one that just pays well.”
― Ashok Veda

“A job that offers more scope for learning is better than one that just pays well.”
― Ashok Veda

“Change is the new job security. Embrace it.”
― Ashok Veda

“Certain rejections, within your career, will highlight the aspects that you need to improve on. What you do with this, is solely up to you.”
― Robin S. Baker

“Confidence is the key to getting ahead at work and in life. When you are confident, you feel better about yourself and, in turn, do better work, take on more challenging projects, and communicate clearly.”
― Elana Lyn Gross, What Next?: Your Five-Year Plan for Life after College

“Whether you’re 22 or 52, you can avoid having a bum career by making corrections as early as possible. To do that, you’ll need a process to identify and/or to avoid missteps in the here and now.”
― Penelope Przekop, 5-Star Career: Define and Build Yours Using the Science of Quality Management

“The exciting news is that you’re not only the customer who wants a 5-star career; you’re also the one and only person who has the power to manufacture it. Once you understand the relationship between you as the customer and you as the manufacturer, nothing can stop you in your quest for quality.”
― Penelope Przekop, 5-Star Career: Define and Build Yours Using the Science of Quality Management

“Having spent so much time navigating my own career transition and counseling others through theirs, I have found that there are three key steps to identifying your own core personal projects. First, think back to what you loved to do when you were a child. How did you answer the question of what you wanted to be when you grew up? The specific answer you gave may have been off the mark, but the underlying impulse was not. If you wanted to be a fireman, what did a fireman mean to you? A good man who rescued people in distress? A daredevil? Or the simple pleasure of operating a truck? If you wanted to be a dancer, was it because you got to wear a costume, or because you craved applause, or was it the pure joy of twirling around at lightning speed? You may have known more about who you were then than you do now. Second, pay attention to the work you gravitate to. At my law firm I never once volunteered to take on an extra corporate legal assignment, but I did spend a lot of time doing pro bono work for a nonprofit women’s leadership organization. I also sat on several law firm committees dedicated to mentoring, training, and personal development for young lawyers in the firm. Now, as you can probably tell from this book, I am not the committee type. But the goals of those committees lit me up, so that’s what I did. Finally, pay attention to what you envy. Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire. I met my own envy after some of my former law school classmates got together and compared notes on alumni career tracks. They spoke with admiration and, yes, jealousy, of a classmate who argued regularly before the Supreme Court. At first I felt critical. More power to that classmate! I thought, congratulating myself on my magnanimity. Then I realized that my largesse came cheap, because I didn’t aspire to argue a case before the Supreme Court, or to any of the other accolades of lawyering. When I asked myself whom I did envy, the answer came back instantly. My college classmates who’d grown up to be writers or psychologists. Today I’m pursuing my own version of both those roles.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Loyalty begets loyalty, in work as in life.”
― Ashok Veda

“If you don't own your transitions and try to create the future you want, you must endure the future you get.”
― Emma Toops, Wait, What?!: The Success Formula for When Life Plays Out Differently Than You Expected

“The key to solving a transition puzzle is to control what you can and influence what you cannot.”
― Emma Toops, Wait, What?!: The Success Formula for When Life Plays Out Differently Than You Expected

“Life doesn't happen in your head! It occurs in the environment that you are in.”
― Emma Toops, Wait, What?!: The Success Formula for When Life Plays Out Differently Than You Expected

“Your heated assessments of other people have no place in workplace conversations.”
― Bob Wall, Working Relationships: Using Emotional Intelligence to Enhance Your Effectiveness with Others

“Building a successful career path requires as much strategy as hacking systems does.”
― Timsux Wales

“Even your goals don't care how you feel.”
― Timsux Wales

“When your self-worth is tied to your achievements, seeing others succeed in the same way can feel like a threat to your own self-esteem.”
― Timsux Wales

“Embracing a growth mindset means viewing failures as opportunities for development rather than as indicators of misalignment.”
― Timsux Wales

“Your resume can be fire, but your visibility is the gasoline that ignites it.”
― Timsux Wales

“The goal is not to look like you're becoming, the goal is to become.”
― Timsux Wales

“Saying yes to everything seems like the fast lane to career success until it quietly becomes the fastest way to lose your edge.”
― Timsux Wales

“Comfort can feel like stability, but it’s often just a quiet pause in your potential.”
― Timsux Wales

“If you can’t speak the language of business, you’ll never be in the room where real decisions are made.”
― Timsux Wales

“Security doesn’t exist in a vacuum, it lives in the context of money, risk, and reputation.”
― Timsux Wales

“It’s tempting to think success is about visibility.”
― Timsux Wales

“When you align your outer style with your inner strength, that’s power.”
― Kelli Stenhouse, DRESS BETTER FEEL BETTER: Elevate Your Mood and Boost Your Confidence