Top 200 Career Development Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs.”

— Jim Rohn

52. “The bridge between reality and a dream is work.”

— Jared Leto

53. “Hard work and diligence are essential to success, but they require an internal motivation. That internal motivation is Vision.”

— Myles Munroe

54. “If you want to achieve your goals, help others achieve theirs.”

— Zig Ziglar

55. “A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you.”

— Bob Proctor

56. “Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.”

— Napoleon Hill

57. “We miss 100 percent of the sales we don’t ask for.”

— Zig Ziglar

58. “The best investment you can make is in yourself.”

— Warren Buffett

59. “What ever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it they will want to come back and see you do it again and they will want to bring others and show them how well you do what you do.”

— Walt Disney

60. “Achieve self-mastery over your thoughts, and constantly direct them toward your goals and objectives. Learn to focus your attention on the goals that you want to achieve and on finding ways to achieve those goals.”

— Napoleon Hill

61. “An entrepreneur isn’t someone who owns a business, it’s someone who makes things happen.”

— Tim Ferriss

62. “No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.”

— Brian Tracy

63. “Successful people do ordinary things with extraordinary consistency, commitment and focus.”

— Jon Gordon

64. “Where you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life.”

— Jeff Bezos

65. “Even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15% of one’s financial success is due one’s technical knowledge and about 85% is due to skill in human engineering, to personality and the ability to lead people.”

— Dale Carnegie

66. “Once a decision is made, you should stop worrying and start working. It’s not always what we know that makes it a good decision. It is what we do to implement and execute it that makes it a good decision.”

— John C. Maxwell

67. “Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.”

— Abdul Kalam

68. “The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well meaning.”

— Brian Tracy

69. “My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future.”

— Jim Rohn

70. “You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.”

— Maya Angelou

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

— Napoleon Hill

72. “One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

73. “If you want to become successful, seek to become a person of value.”

— Myles Munroe

74. “You don’t hire for skills, you hire for attitude. You can always teach skills.”

— Herb Kelleher

75. “If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.”

— Colin Powell

76. “Work is doing it. Discipline is doing it every day. Diligence is doing it well every day.”

— Dave Ramsey

77. “A runner doesn’t just show up and win a race. He trains long and hard. Do you just show up every day and hope to win?”

— Robin S. Sharma

78. “There are no secrets to success: don’t waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence.”

— Colin Powell

79. “Failing to plan means planning to fail. What are your goals?”

— Brian Tracy

80. “Achievers have a can-do attitude that sets them apart from mere dreamers. Achievers are sold out to success-no matter the obstacles-and they are willing to put forth the effort and pay the price of success.”

— Jim Rohn

81. “Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.”

— Colin Powell

82. “Networking is the No. 1 unwritten rule of success in business.”

— Sallie Krawcheck

83. “The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start. The fellow who sits still and does just what he is told will never be told to do big things.”

— Charles M. Schwab

84. “Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.”

— Peter F. Drucker

85. “Your vocation in life is where your greatest joy meets the world’s greatest need.”

— Frederick Buechner

86. “Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.”

— Bobby Unser

87. “When you invest in people and lift them toward their potential, they will love you for it.”

— Jim Rohn

88. “Follow your heart and your intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

— Steve Jobs

89. “Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

90. “The starting point of all achievement is desire.”

— Napoleon Hill

91. “I’ve learned over the years that when it comes to success, consistency is key. Consistent hard work that we may not like doing today, but for a payoff we’ll love tomorrow. Earn it. Enjoy it.”

— Dwayne Johnson

92. “The key to success is failure.”

— Michael Jordan

93. “Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.”

— Brian Tracy

94. “Most people only work enough so that it feels like work, whereas successful people work at a pace that gets such satisfying results that work is a reward. Truly successful people don’t even call it work; for them, it’s a passion. Why? Because they do enough to win!”

— Grant Cardone

95. “Coaching is unlocking a person’s potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.”

— Timothy Gallwey

96. “Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”

— Andrew Carnegie

97. “I learned to always take on things I’d never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist.”

— Ginni Rometty

98. “Success is knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.”

— John C. Maxwell

99. “A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.”

— Elbert Hubbard

100. “Hire character. Train skill.”

— Peter Schutz