Forum: Professional

“If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.” — Napoleon Hill

“Don't assume you can't be happy unless you're doing what you love most for a living. If that were true, only a tiny portion of the world's...

“People make decisions about you and your ideas based on what they see – your facial expression, your body language and your enthusiasm. So if you...

“I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.” — J.C. Penney

“Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping-stones of genius.” — Elbert Hubbard

“I don’t want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance.” — George Balanchine

“I stood in front of a speech class and said, ‘I plan to make my living with my oratory skills, and I'd like to be a talk show host.’ There was a...

“What success I achieved in the theater is due to the fact that I have always worked just as hard when there were 10 people in the house as when...

“I have never known a really successful man who deep in his heart did not understand the grind, the discipline it takes to win.” — Vince Lombardi

“Often we are caught in a mental trap of seeing enormously successful people and thinking they are where they are because they have some special...

“The mentor is someone who tells you what you may not want to hear in order for you to see what you may not want to see so you can be all you have...

“The man who keeps busy helping the man below him won't have time to envy the man above him.” — Henrietta Mears

“Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?” — Robert Browning

“The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.” — Vince Lombardi

“Never ever ever go to see the boss about a problem without bringing along a proposed solution. Better yet, three solutions.” — Walter Kiechel III

“Behave towards your inferiors as you would wish your superiors to behave to you.” — Seneca

There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily. — Chaucer

“I write when I’m inspired, and I see to it that I’m inspired at nine o’clock every morning.” — Peter de Vries

“The biggest mistake in life is to think that you work for someone else. True, you may have a boss and you may collect a paycheck from a company but...

“Don't get caught up with always needing to see instant results from your work. Instead, have faith that there will always be a reaction, because...