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Career |
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Quotations
 | In politics one comes with a brilliant future and leaves with a dark past. — Anonymous 15 likes |
 | A painter's career is like a prostitute's career: in the beginning he does it for his own pleasure, then for the pleasure of others and, finally, for the money. — Marcel Achard, 1899-1974, French playwright 6 likes |
 | Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 5 likes |
 | A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night. — Marilyn Monroe, 1926-1962, American actress 4 likes |
 | If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third. — Cicero, 106-43 BC, Roman orator & statesman 4 likes |
 | Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. — Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru 3 likes |
 | All your Greek will never advance you from secretary to envoy, or from envoy to ambassador; but your address, your manner, your air, if good, very probably may. — Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773, English statesman & writer 3 likes |
 | Journalism can take you everywhere, as long as you quit in time. — Benito Moussolini, 1883-1945, Italian dictator 3 likes |
 | It is not titles that make men illustrious, but men who make titles illustrious. — Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469-1527, Italian political philosopher 2 likes |
 | Hitch your wagon to a star. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 2 likes |
 | Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either. — Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930, British writer 1 likes |
 | The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat. — Lily Tomlin, 1939-, American actress 1 likes |
 | In any profession, if you want to be at the top, you have to withstand pressure. The pressure of goals, of problems, of criticism, of dissatisfaction, of undermining, of demands. — Manolis Doukides, Greek writer 1 likes |
 | I’ve always been in the right place and time. Of course, I steered myself there. |
 | I started at the top and worked my way down. |
 | Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller. |
 | A great career today is measured by the number of failures. |
| A career is born in public – talent in privacy. |
 | Career: from fighting for a piece of bread to a fight for a piece of the pie. |
Personal Stories
 | Regimes may fall and fail, but I do not. — Talleyrand, 1754-1838, French statesman & diplomat 11 likes |
 | When I was a child, my mother said to me, “If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope.” Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 4 likes |
 | I never ever took my career seriously. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 3 likes |
 | Getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. — Steve Jobs, 1955-2011, American businessman 2 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | (career) from the garden to the vase then in the trash bin. — Dinos Christianopoulos, 1931-2020, Greek poet 7 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | A snake will not become a dragon unless it eats a dragon. Όφις ει μη φάγοι όφιν, δράκων ου γενήσεται. 5 likes |
 | Risen to greatness from small and humble beginnings. Μέγας εκ μικρού και ταπεινού. — Demosthenes, 384-322 BC, Ancient Athenian & statesman orator (of Philip of Macedonia) 4 likes |
