Careers and Ambition Quotes
Top 40 Careers and Ambition
Quotes
No 1 (Best quote!)![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotes-confucius.jpg)
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius (551–479 BC), Chinese
philosopher, pictured right.
Two other famous people agree:
![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotes-branson.jpg)
Whatever one’s doing in life, do it well, enjoy doing it and do it with a smile
- Richard Branson (1950-), founder of the British
company, Virgin (pictured right).
![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotes-picasso.jpg)
Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time,
- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Spanish artist
(pictured right)
![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotes-peters-tom.jpg)
No 2
If you’re not distinct, you’re extinct.,
- Tom Peters (1942-) management writer, pictured right.
![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotes-chanel.jpg)
Coco Chanel (1883-1971), French
designer and businesswoman (pictured right) puts this another way:
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different
![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotes-nordstrom.jpg)
No 3
Individual competitiveness = what you know x [and] who you know,
Kjell Nordstrom (pictured right above)
and Jonas Ridderstrale, pictured right
below in Funky Business (2000)
No 4![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotes-de-bono.jpg)
Unhappiness is best described as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
- Edward de Bono (1933- ), creative thinking expert,
pictured right.
No 5![Careers and Ambition Quotes Business Success Quotes](images/grove80.jpg)
Nobody owes you a career.
- Andrew Grove (1936- ) , American boss of Intel
1987-98, pictured right.
No 6![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotes-schweitzer.jpg)
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
- Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965),
German missionary pictured right.
![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotesarmy.jpg)
No 7
Be, know, do.
- American army slogan.
No 8![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotes-emerson.jpg)
Character is higher than intellect.
- Ralph Waldo
Emerson (1803-1882) American writer and philosopher, pictured right.
![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotes-de-pree.jpg)
But Max De Pree (pictured right) says in his book,
Leadership is an Art:
Character cannot replace competence
![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotespittcar9.jpg)
No 9
What makes ambition virtue? The sense of honour.
- William Pitt (1708-78), British prime minister 1766-8, pictured right.
![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotes-cicero.jpg)
Cicero (106-43 BC), the Roman
philosopher and politician (pictured right), agrees:
Ability without honour is useless
No 10![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotes-lao.jpg)
Life is an opportunity not an obligation.
- Lao Tzu (c604-c531 BC)
Chinese philosopher, pictured right.
![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotes-napoleon.jpg)
The French leader, Napoleon
Bonaparte (1769-1821), pictured right, agrees:
Ability is nothing without opportunity
No 11![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotes-rowling.jpg)
Find the work in which you can give of your best.
- J.K. Rowling (1965-), English
writer (pictured right).
![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotes-whitehorn.jpg)
Katherine Whitehorn (1928- ), the English journalist, pictured right, agrees:
Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.
No 12![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotes-luckman.jpg)
Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks and courage.
- Charles Luckman (1909-99), American architect, pictured right.
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No 13
Life is short, the art long.
- Hippocrates (c460-c370 BC), Greek
doctor, pictured right.
No 14![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotes-mizner.jpg)
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet 'em on your way down.
- Wilson Mizner (1876–1933) American dramatist, pictured right.
No 15![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotes-penney.jpg)
No man can climb the ladder of success without first placing his foot on the bottom rung.
- J.C. Penney (1875-1971),
American co-founder of the department store, J.C. Penney, pictured right.
![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotes-carnegie-andrew.jpg)
Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919), the American
businessman (pictured right), also says:
You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.
No 16![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quoteswhittoncar16.jpg)
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good.
- Charlotte Whitton (1896–1975) Canadian writer and politician, pictured right.
No 17 ![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotes-peter.jpg)
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
(called the Peter Principle)
- Laurence Peter pictured right (from his book, The Peter
Principle ,1969), .
No 18![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotes-honda.jpg)
The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred.
- Soichiro Honda (1906-91), Japanese
co-founder of Honda, pictured right.
No 19![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotes-monroe.jpg)
A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up to it on a cold night.
- Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962),
American movie star (pictured right).
No 20![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotes-trump.jpg)
If your boss is a sadist...fire your boss and get a new job.
- Donald Trump (1946- ), American
businessman (pictured right).
No 21![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotes-wittgenstein.jpg)
Ambition is the death of thought.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), Austrian-born
British philosopher (pictured right).
Two other comments on ambition are:
![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotes-presley.jpg)
Ambition is a dream with a V8
engine.
- Elvis Presley
(1935-1977), American pop star (pictured right)
![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotes-heraclitus.jpg)
Big results require big ambitions.
- Heraclitus (c540-c480BC), Greek philosopher (pictured
right).
No 22![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotes-gardner-john.jpg)
An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.
- John W. Gardner (1912-2002), American politician and
writer (pictured right) -from his book Excellence, 1961.
No 23![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotes-einstein.jpg)
If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (on making the atomic bomb possible).
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955),
German-born American scientist (pictured right).
No 24![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotes-branson.jpg)
Success depends on people’s enthusiasm, their dependability and their effectiveness,
- Richard
Branson (1950- ), English founder of the British company, Virgin (pictured right).
![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotes-roddick.jpg)
Anita Roddick (1942-2007), founder of the
cosmetics retailer, the Body Shop (pictured right) agrees:
To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion
that it becomes a reality.
No 25![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotes-buffett.jpg)
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin
it.
- Warren Buffett (1930- ), American share
investor (pictured right).
No 26![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotes-carnegie-andrew.jpg)
Think of yourself on the threshold of unparalleled success. A
whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
- Andrew
Carnegie (1835-1919, Scottish-born American businessman (pictured right).
No 27![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotes-gates.jpg)
If I had to choose between my job and having great wealth, I'd
choose the job.
- Bill
Gates (1955-), American co-founder of Microsoft (pictured right).
No 28![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotes-descartes.jpg)
It is not enough
to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
- René
Descartes (1596-1650), French philosopher (pictured right).
No 29![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotes-bacon.jpg)
Choose the life that is most useful.
- Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher and
politician (pictured right).
No 30![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotes-cicero.jpg)
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at
the second, or even the third, place,
- Cicero (106-43 BC), Roman philosopher and politician
(pictured right).
No
31
A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success,
- Mahatma (Mohandas) Gandhi (1869-1948),
Indian leader and philosopher (pictured right).
No 32![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotes-simpson-homer.jpg)
The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number
1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.
- Homer
Simpson, American cartoon character (pictured right).
No 33![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotes-washington-booker.jpg)
Excellence is to be measured not so much by the position that one
has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Booker T. Washington (1856-1915), African
American leader (pictured right).
No 34![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotes-winfrey.jpg)
You are not your circumstances. You are your
possibilities.
- Oprah
Winfrey (1954-), African American chat show host (pictured right).
No 35![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotes-austen.jpg)
I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always
evince its propriety
(Elinor in
Sense and
Sensibility)
- Jane
Austen (1775-1817), English novelist (pictured right)
No 36![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotes-edison.jpg)
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in
overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison (1847-1931), the American inventor
(pictured right).
No 37![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotes-picasso.jpg)
Genius is personality with two pennies of talent.
- Pablo
Picasso (1881-1973), Spanish artist (pictured right).
No 38![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotesmorl.jpg)
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
(from the 1917 novel Parnassus on Wheels)
- Christopher Morley (1890-1957), American writer, pictured right.
No 39![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotes-shakespeare.jpg)
It is no sin for a man to labour in his vocation.
(Falstaff in Henry IV Part
1)
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616),
English playwright, pictured right.
No
40![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotes-nicholson-guinness.jpg)
And you wonder, you ask yourself, what the sum total of your life represents. What difference your being there
at any time made to anything.
- Colonel Nicholson (pictured right) - in the film The Bridge on the River
Kwai, 1957.
![Careers and Ambition Quotes Careers and Ambition Quotes](images/quotes-de-gaulle.jpg)
The French leader, Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) ,pictured right, also comments:
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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