1,805 Quotes About Career

Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.

In all my experience in both startups and large companies, including and especially at Facebook, I would always prefer - a hundred times prefer - being subject to the rigors of the market, the fickleness of luck, and the whims of users than to navigate the popularity-contest politics of a large company, surrounded by the mediocre duffers who've succeeded in life through nothing more than guile and appearances.

Whatever area that you get into, given that, even if you're the best of the best, there's always a chance of failure. So, I think it's important that you really like whatever you're doing. If you don't like it, life is too short. And also, if you like what you are doing, you think about it even when you are not working. It's something your mind drawn to. And if you don't like it, you just really can't make it work I think.

Leadership is more than a job title: It can and does exist at every organizational level.

All you need to do is keep your eyes and mind open to the possibilities.

Those who are successful have mastered the art of levering at least one thing that they are good at and marketing that one skillset to a wide audience.

Doing something later is not automatically the same as doing something better

In any career, there is a moment when you are no longer need to be pushed up from below, but rather pulled up from above. Know when that moment comes and adjust your strategy accordingly.

What you keep alive is what you truly care about, no matter how many times you die in the process.