Successful Career Quotes:

Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.

- Helen Gurley Brown

source: "Helen Gurley Brown: how to have it all" by Sali Hughes, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2012.

topic: Successful, Careers, Envy, Career Women, Successful Career

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

- Benjamin Franklin Fairless

topic: Motivational, Team, Successful, Job Opportunities, New Career

What is the recipe for successful achievement? Choose a career you love. Give it the best there is in you. Seize your opportunities. And be a member of the team.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Job Opportunities, New Career, Greatest Achievement, Successful Career, Motivational Career

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

- Mary Kay Ash

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Empowering Women, International Business

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

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Best Success, Inspirational Football

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Interesting Life, Inner Voice

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

- Abdul Kalam

source: Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, Arun Tiwari (1999). “Wings of Fire: An Autobiography”, p.90, Universities Press

topic: Climbing, Careers, New Job, Successful Career, Mt Everest

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

- Mae West

source: "Mae West: 'YOLO,' Before YOLO Was a Thing", bigthink.com. September 25, 2015.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Life Is Simple, Live Life To Its Fullest

If you think you can't, you're right.

- Carol Bartz

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Smart, Thought Of The Day, Best Success

Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

- Orison Swett Marden

topic: Motivational, Careers, New Job, Successful Career, Career Motivation

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

- Wayne Gretzky

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness, Thought Of The Day, Self Determination

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.

- Walt Disney

source: "How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Best Success, Young Entrepreneurs

You build a successful career, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Success, Jobs, Careers, Successful Career

A successful career will no longer be about promotion. It will be about mastery.

- Michael Martin Hammer

topic: Successful, Careers, Discipline, Successful Career

Do what you love and success will follow. Passion is the fuel behind a successful career.

- Meg Whitman

topic: Passion, Successful, Careers, Successful Career

There are a great number of people from New Jersey who go on to have pretty successful careers.

- Kerry Bishe

topic: Successful, Careers, Numbers, Successful Career

If you seek enlightenment, then career is a very important idea on your agenda. Approach your career from this standpoint and you will have a very different career. You will be successful.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Success, Buddhism, Careers, Successful Career

I know I have a successful career, a successful life. If I sit and say, 'Look, I have a comfortable life,' and I... just think about myself, I don't think that would be fair. That would be very selfish. Because everything I do in my life is to benefit my people.

- George Weah

topic: Selfish, Successful, Thinking, Successful Career, Comfortable Life

Young men keep telling me they don't 'have it all' either. And they may have a point. But if you define 'having it all' as the opportunity to have a successful career and a family, I'd say this. When a man tells his coworkers he's going to have a child, no one asks him how he'll manage or if he'll be coming back to work.

- Anne-Marie Slaughter

topic: Children, Successful, Opportunity, Successful Career, Coworker

A successful career has been full of blunders.

- Charles Buxton

topic: Successful, Careers, Blunders, Successful Career

The Youth Employment Fund is helping Ontario's young people build valuable skills and access job opportunities that will lay the groundwork for successful careers. I'm thrilled that more than 10,000 youth of all abilities and backgrounds have already benefited from this important program and I look forward to our impressive team of Employment Ontario partners continuing to work with businesses across the province to help young people build a brighter future for Ontario.

- Brad Duguid

topic: Jobs, Team, Successful, Job Opportunities, Successful Career

There are direct paths to a successful career. But there are plenty of indirect paths, too.

- Clayton Christensen

topic: Successful, Careers, Path, Successful Career

People dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward. The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.

- Alan Greenspan

topic: Mistake, Successful, Careers, Successful Career, Forecasts

I do believe that God blessed me in life with a wonderful family, a successful career, and a loving marriage, and remain thankful for that blessing.

- Bonnie Tyler

topic: Believe, Blessed, Successful, Successful Career, Wonderful Family

All the information you need is available to you to have a successful career in music, if you're paying attention, and not closed off to anything. Remember, Perseverance is King.

- Bradley Joseph

source: Interview with Fred Wheeler, Indie Journal, 2002.

topic: Perseverance, Kings, Successful, Successful Career

But then a daring evasion by a leading conveyancer, known as the Lease and Release, received judicial sanction; and commenced a successful career of more than 200 years. The Lease and Release, attributed to Serjeant Moore, was based on the fact that the Statute of Inrolments did not apply to terms of years.

- Edward Jenks

source: Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

topic: Successful, Years, Careers, Successful Career, Lease

So the laws of good driving forbade you to go off the magic ribbon except in extreme emergencies. You were ethically entitled to several inches of margin at the right-hand edge; and the man approaching you was entitled to an equal number of inches; which left a remainder of inches between the two projectiles as they shot by. It sounds risky as one tells it, but the heavens are run on the basis of similar calculations, and while collisions do happen, they leave time enough in between for universes to be formed, and successful careers conducted by men of affairs.

- Upton Sinclair

topic: Running, Successful, Men, Successful Career, Projectile

How often does the tightrope walker balance when walking across the tightrope? All the time! It is the same thing if you really want to have a successful career, and you want to have a happy home life. It is a matter of balance.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Home, Successful, Careers, Successful Career, Happy Home

The most important lesson of all: Go home. Make time for the ones you love. The easiest thing to think about living like an entrepreneur is that these skills apply to only one part of your life: your job. That's a mistake. In the same way that entrepreneurs are redefining many of the traditional rules of the workplace, they're also helping to break down one of the most stubborn boundaries of all, the one between work and family. While it's popular to say you can have either a successful career or a meaningful personal life, I'd like to suggest you can aim for both.

- Linda Rottenberg

source: Source: bobmorris.biz

topic: Meaningful, Mistake, Home, Successful Career

If somebody is deemed more talented within the confines of the school it doesn't mean they're going to have the most successful career.

- Gillian Jacobs

topic: School, Mean, Successful, Successful Career

The secret to a successful career in virtually any field is good public relations. Forget results. Forget the facts. Perception is all that matters.

- Jack McDevitt

topic: Successful, Careers, Perception, Successful Career, Public Relations

Polls are now even more meaningless than ever... there was the case of Ronnie O'Brien, the young footballer who incredibly found himself at Juventus, and even more incredibly found himself in the running to win an internet poll of the great club's greatest ever player. The curse ironically struck O'Brien a second time when he was at one point leading Time magazine's list of the Greatest People Of The 20th Century. The error in the polling was soon rectified and O'Brien, happily, is leading a highly successful career playing pro-football with FC Dallas in the American soccer league.

- Ian O'Doherty

topic: Soccer, Running, Football, Juventus, Successful Career

The United States is the only country where a driver can have a successful career - either in stock cars or IndyCar - and he won't need a passport.

- Mario Andretti

topic: Country, Successful, Careers, Successful Career

It's immoral to parent irresponsibly... And it doesn't help matters any when prime time tv, like "Murphy Brown", a character who is supposed to represent a successful career woman of today, mocks the importance of the father by bearing a child alone, and calling it just another "lifestyle choice." Marriage is probably the best anti-poverty program there is... Even though our cultural leaders in Hollywood, network TV, the national newspapers routinely jeer at [such values] I think most of us in this room know that some things are good, and other things are wrong.

- Dan Quayle

topic: Children, Father, Character, Career Women, Lifestyle Choices

I made the Dixie Heights High School baseball team as an 8th grader and went on to have a very successful career. I was all state both my junior and senior years leading our team 3 district championships and 1 regional championship in 2001 which hadn't happened since 1991. My number has since been retired at Dixie Heights and a banner hangs from the outfield fence with my name and number on it.

- Graham Taylor

source: "MILB Interview: Graham Taylor (Jacksonville Suns, Miami Marlins)". Intreview with Justin Godsey, hotseatsports.wordpress.com. February 10, 2012.

topic: All State, Successful Career, Dixie, Baseball Team, Senior Year

Donald Trump moves in two parallel tracks at the same time. There's the controversial political guy that's always out there with his tweets. He comes from a showbiz background, as well as a very successful career in finance and real estate. He loves sometimes the controversy more than some people - the press thinks they're totally aggravating him. He sometimes thrives on the public controversy and the hitting back. Meanwhile, he's very results-oriented. He knows that the American people are going to judge him by his performance on the economy, on jobs, on national security.

- Christopher Ruddy

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Real, Moving, Successful, Successful Career, Aggravating

You can point to a lot of women showrunners that have had long and successful careers. In terms of the kinds of movies that women can get made, as long as the business operates under this model of the first-weekend [box office] focus, with huge movies aimed at super-young audiences, it will be really tough for women to do something that really changes the landscape. Because honestly, until they figure out how to get grown women into the theaters on the first weekend, it won't change.

- Callie Khouri

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Successful Career

In 1916, when Johnny Heartfield and I invented photomontage in my studio at the south end of the town at five o'clock one May morning, we had no idea of the immense possibilities, or of the thorny but successful career, that awaited the new invention. On a piece of cardboard we pasted a mishmash of advertisements for hernia belts, student song books and dog food, labels from schnaps and wine bottles, and photographs from picture papers, cut up at will in such a way as to say, in pictures, what would have been banned by the censors if we had said it in words.

- George Grosz

topic: Song, Dog, Morning, Banned, Successful Career

To have a successful career, you have to approach it as an entrepreneur, even if you are working for someone else. Your career is your own private business. You have to market yourself and your abilities and knowledge just as you would a product or service.

- Earl G. Graves, Sr.

topic: Leadership, Successful, Careers, Successful Career

The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken.

- E. M. Forster

source: E. M. Forster (2012). “Howards End”, p.76, Courier Corporation

topic: Strength, Success, Taken, Unsuccessful, Successful Career

Unless you are really grounded and have a true sense of reality, you can get lost in that and a lot of people do and that's why you see so many people with successful careers but with destructive lives.

- Morris Chestnut

topic: Successful, Reality, Careers, Successful Career

As an individual learns and practices higher meditation techniques, a tremendous volume of energy and creativity flows through them. If they direct some of that energy towards their career, then naturally they will become successful.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Success, Creativity, Buddhism, Successful Career

Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.

- Donna Rice Hughes

topic: New York, Successful, Careers, Obtaining, Successful Career

I was very strongly influenced by women's magazines and I really believed tha a woman could not be married and raise a family and have a successful career all at the same time.

- Helen Reddy

topic: Successful, Careers, Magazines, Successful Career

My mother - both my mother and father had very successful careers. My mother's an English professor and my father is a scientist and physician. They worked at the same jobs for their entire life, 50 years each

- David Plotz

source: "How Does a Host of Working Work?". "Working" with Adam Davidson, www.slate.com. May 18, 2015.

topic: Mother, Jobs, Father, Successful Career

I've been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five years in Las Vegas have been amazing.

- David Cassidy

topic: Successful, Careers, Vegas, Last Five Years, Successful Career

It doesn't matter if you're good. If you're just good, you won't succeed. If you have patience and persistence and talent and that's it, you will not have a successful career as an actor. The elusive thing you need is luck.

- Bryan Cranston

source: Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

topic: Successful, Persistence, Careers, Successful Career, Patience And Persistence

Do you want a successful career or a close relationship with your family? Both! Do you want a focus on business or have fun and play? Both! Do you want money or meaning in your life? Both! Do you want to earn a fortune or do the work you love? Both! Poor people always choose one, rich people choose both.

- T. Harv Eker

source: FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Dec 16, 2013

topic: Inspirational, Life, Fun, Close Relationship, Successful Career

Claim whatever you want. Say you only want a happy family or a successful career or a big house. I say: no, that's not what you want. You'll settle for those things, but you really want a monkey that does your evil bidding. Pullman is a genius just for this.

- Maureen Johnson

topic: Successful, Careers, Evil, Successful Career, Big Houses