Quotes about Career

We need to have a better balance between a deliberate strategy and staying open. Because in the end, most of us end up being successful in a career that we never imagined we would be in at the beginning.

We live in an age that stresses personal goals, careers, happiness, work and religion. The emphasis is on the individual and how best that individual can satisfy himself.

Wrong selection of a vocation. No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

A career, producing of children, are all maya [illusion] compared to that one thing, that your life is meaningful.

I must admit that I didn't choose journalism, I was caught off guard; the profession simply sank its claws into me. It was love at first sight, a sudden passion that has determined a large part of my life.

I've certainly done some turkeys along the way and made some dumb choices in my career, mostly early on. I'm one of the lucky ones who got to make a lot of mistakes very early when no one was paying attention.

The basic thing is, people want to get paid, so they'll say the things that get them paid, in entertainment or politics.

Of course, 'I Will Always Love You' is the biggest song so far in my career. I'm famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

I'm the lucky one who got asked to do 'The Sound of Music' and all the other lovely things that I did.

Successful men, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession. Those who are not successful usually make the mistake of believing that the knowledge acquiring period ends when one finishes school. The truth is that schooling does but little more than to put one in the way of learning how to acquire practical knowledge.