2,702 Quotes About Careers

  • Author Isaac Stern
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    Outsiders always look for a reason to explain why they are not inside. They never look in the mirror. Let's face it, the profession I'm in is a very simple and a very cruel one. There is no way that you can create a career for someone without talent and no way to stop a career of someone with talent.

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  • Author J. Michael Straczynski
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    Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle of our careers. It's the nature of the business.

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  • Author James Sinegal
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    When you hire good people, and you provide good jobs and good wages and a career, good things are going to happen.

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  • Author James Surowiecki
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    The paradox of Steve Jobs's career is that he had no interest in listening to consumers - he was famously dismissive of market research - yet nonetheless had an amazing sense of what consumers actually wanted.

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  • Author Jason Sudeikis
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    I don't know if the idea of a career in show business or in the arts in general was looked down upon as much as by baby boomers as it was by their parents.

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  • Author Jerry Saltz
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    Lucian Freud's career affirms that the only thing an artist can do is remain true to whatever vision, (lack of) talent, or ideas that happened to pick them in order to be made known to the world.

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