Work Experience Quotes:

The object of living is work, experience, happiness.

- Henry Ford

topic: Life, Life Happiness, Work Experience

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

- Stephen Leacock

source: Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.91, University of Toronto Press

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Daily Work, True Believer

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

- Lou Holtz

topic: Motivational, Basketball, Sports, Inspirational Coaching, Professional Career

And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.

- Donald A. Norman

topic: Jobs, Real, Work, Work Experience

I believe no amount of business school training or work experience can teach what is ultimately a matter of personal character. Businesses are not dishonest or greedy, people are. Thus, a business, successful or not, is merely a reflection of the character of its leadership.

- S. Truett Cathy

topic: Believe, School, Character, Personal Character, Greedy People

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Positive Thinking, Optimism, Want, Daily Work, Social Responsibility

A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Leadership, Spiritual, Educational, Customer Experience, Call Center

Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment.

- Mark Twain

topic: Doe, Judgment, Good Judgment, Bad Experiences, Rock Climbing

When I think about what part of my college experience came back in my work experience, I feel like it was learning how to read deeper, learning how to keep filling the movie up with more and more resonance.

- Jodie Foster

source: "The Legend: Jodie Foster". Interview with Saoirse Ronan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

topic: College, Thinking, Filling, College Experience, Work Experience

In determing "the right people," the good-to-great companies placed greater weight on character attributes than on specific educational background, practical skills, specialized knowledge, or work experience.

- James C. Collins

topic: Educational, Character, Skills, Great Company, Educational Background

What we really need to be open to is diversity itself, especially in a business environment. What you want is a plethora of ideas; you want people with different life experience, people with different work experience, people from different cultures to bring something to the table that you otherwise based on your own coming up, you yourself wouldn't have thought of.

- Corey Smith

source: Source: respect-mag.com

topic: Ideas, People, Diversity, Different Life, Work Experience

The two most important things about people on a revolutionary team are their ability and passion. Their educational level or work experience is meaningless--most of the engineers who did ground-breaking work of the Macintosh design didn't even graduate from college.

- Guy Kawasaki

topic: Educational, Team, Passion, Macintosh, Work Experience

In a capitalist world, the word capital has taken on more and more uses. . . . human capital, for instance, which is what labor accumulates through education and work experience. Human capital differs from the classic kind in that you can't inherit it, and it can only be rented, not bought or sold.

- Kim Stanley

topic: Taken, Use, World, Work Experience

I was twenty-one when I was hired by Planned Parenthood. It was my first work experience outside of either temping or working for my father at his store.

- Jessa Crispin

topic: Father, Twenties, Firsts, Work Experience

Reporting in general makes me pretty nervous. But I realized: all the amazing work experiences of my life were thanks to reporting. So that forces you to go do it.

- Joel Stein

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Thanks, Nervous, Force, Amazing Work, Work Experience

When I fell into modeling, because I wanted to work in fashion. I wanted to do styling or make-up. I ended getting picked up to be a model instead during my work experience.

- Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Fashion, Wanted, Modeling, Work Experience

I think that the American people are curious about who a candidate is, what their background is, who their family is, what their faith experience has been, their education, their work experience. All of those are factors that voters look at because they want to take a measure of the individual.

- Michele Bachmann

topic: Thinking, People, Looks, Work Experience

Obama is not just a powerful speaker, but a thinker engaged with the ideas of his country and his age--this argument by historian James Kloppenberg should therefore fascinate anyone interested in American politics or how ideas shape public life. Tracing the influences of Obama's family, educational, and work experiences on his ideas, Reading Obama locates a unique individual in the crosscurrents of American democracy and continuing fights over American ideals.

- Martha Minow

topic: Country, Powerful, Educational, Tracing, Work Experience

And to improve access to the UK publishing industry - I'm hoping to set up an internship or work experience for someone from a low-income background, as soon as we have the funds. While we don't have the funds, we won't have an intern.

- Deborah Smith

source: Source: thequietus.com

topic: Publishing Industry, Internships, Work Experience