The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves. Brian Tracy

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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. Mark Twain

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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. Aristotle

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You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour. Jim Rohn

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Many people have the ambition to succeed; they may even have special aptitude for their job. And yet they do not move ahead. Why? Perhaps they think that since they can master the job, there is no need to master themselves. John Stevenson

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The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office). Faith Popcorn

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To find a career to which you are adapted by nature, and then to work hard at it, is about as near to a formula for success and happiness as the world provides. One of the fortunate aspects of this formula is that, granted the right career has been found, the hard work takes care of itself. Then hard work is not hard work at all. Mark Sullivan

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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. Bob Dylan

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Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. Margaret Fuller

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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. Thomas Carlyle

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. Theodore Roosevelt

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The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as close to heaven as you can get. Without this - with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need - this life is hell. W. E.B. DuBois

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Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. Steve Jobs

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You can't get rich keeping other people broke. Larry Winget

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If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. James Goldsmith

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I think you're out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don't like because you think it will look good on your resume. Warren Buffett

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It is a solid business principle that people who enjoy what they do are better at what they do. Larry Winget

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When you love your job, you will work on yourself so you will be better for your job. You will love it enough to be good at it. If you aren't doing that, you don't love your job at all; you love going to that place where you hang out and they pay you for it. Larry Winget

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If you can't explain what you do for a living in one sentence, then you don't know what you do for a living. Larry Winget

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Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it. Napoleon Hill

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Working at something you don't care about is the very best way to waste your life. Brian Tracy

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No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like. The most essential step in the marketing of personal services is that of selecting an occupation into which you can throw yourself wholeheartedly. Napoleon Hill

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The test of a vocation is the love for the drudgery it involves. Logan Smith

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A success is anyone who is doing deliberately a predetermined job because that's what he decided to do, deliberately. Earl Nightingale

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Select your work carefully and if you don't love what you're doing enough to want to be the best at it, get out! Flee from the boring or unsatisfying job as you would from a burning building. Working at something you don't care about is the very best way to waste your life. Remember, this life is not a rehearsal for something else. Brian Tracy

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Your economic security does not lie in your job; it lies in your own power to produce - to think, to learn, to create, to adapt. That's true financial independence. It's not having wealth; it's having the power to produce wealth. Stephen Covey

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Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit. George Carlin

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Avoid working directly under somebody you don't admire and don't want to be like. Charlie Munger

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Someone graduating from college thinks, and is told, that he needs to get a job, as if the important thing were becoming a member of an institution. A more direct way to put it would be: you need to start doing something people want. You don't need to join a company to do that. All a company is is a group of people working together to do something people want. It's doing something people want that matters, not joining the group. Paul Graham

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Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men's vices or men's stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more than your ability deserves? By lowering your standards? By doing work you despise for purchasers you scorn? If so, then your money will not give you a moment's or a penny's worth of joy. Then all the things you buy will become, not a tribute to you, but a reproach; not an achievement, but a reminder of shame. Ayn Rand

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The problem with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat. Lily Tomlin

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Probably the most common change that people who want to succeed need to make is getting rid of the incorrect career choice they made when they were naive, ignorant high school and college age kids. John T. Reed

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In small organizations, your true abilities regarding producing or selling the organization's product or service tend to be most important. In large organizations, your bureaucrat/office-politics skills are paramount because there is little individual responsibility for results within the organization. It's too hard to tell who gets credit or blame, so office politics wins out. John T. Reed

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What personal qualities are virtues in one career are vices in another. You need to identify your strengths and weaknesses and get to the career situation where your strengths are considered virtues. John T. Reed

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People who are afraid of losing their jobs and thereby, their income, are cowards. That's no way to live your life. John T. Reed

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A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont, who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession,' for he does not postpone his life, but lives already. He has not one chance, but a hundred chances. Let a Stoic open the resources of man and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and must detach themselves; that with the exercise of self-trust, new powers shall appear; that a man is the word made flesh, born to shed healing to the nations; that he should be ashamed of our compassion, and that the moment he acts from himself, tossing the laws, the books, idolatries and customs out of the window, we pity him no more but thank and revere him;—and that teacher shall restore the life of man to splendor and make his name dear to all history. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There isn't any such thing as being your own boss in this world unless you're a tramp, and then there's the constable. George Horace Lorimer

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If it takes seven days to make a living, you ought to be doing something else. Truett Cathy

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If you have any talent, or any occupation that delights you, do it, and do it to the hilt. Don't ask why, or what difficulties you may get into. Richard Feynman

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It is wonderful, if you can find something you love to do in your youth which is big enough to sustain your interest through all your adult life. Because, whatever it is, if you do it well enough (and you will, if you truly love it) people will pay you to do what you want to do anyway. Richard Feynman

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Don't think of what "you want to be," but what you "want to do." Richard Feynman

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Perhaps the most underused question in job selection is, "Do I want to be more like the people I'll be working with?" Dan and Chip Heath

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When you choose a career, consider whether it will lead to a lifetime of ever-improved performance, a plateau, or a steady decline in your skills. Scott Adams

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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. James Baldwin

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The market pays money in exchange for expertise, time, and effort. Anyone unhappy with the exchange rate, has the ability to add more value in terms of expertise, time, or effort. It's a simple equation. The fact that you don't like it or agree with it doesn't matter and won't change the equation. Is it always fair? No. But is it always true? Always. Larry Winget

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