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Quotations
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 | |
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 | |
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. |
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 |