No new venture occurs without mistakes. Dare to learn and grow through your mistakes--this is how mastery occurs!

With my career I want to either make something or make an impact. Writers both make something, and make an impact.

No, scratch the word "career." Careers are for people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck.

Here's a glorious thought: You don't have to settle. Ever. In life, in love, in your career…ANYWHERE!

If doctors are paid the same salary as bus drivers, community would not be crazy about making their children doctors

The home is the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose, and that is to support the ultimate career.

The first test of ability and intelligence is to find a field of endeavor in which profits are large and risks small.

There's a fine line between career criminals and career professionals because most of us fall somewhere in between.

It's not that I want to work for Williams-Sonoma, per se, it's just that you guys have the money and I don't.

Imagination is pure potentiality for creation. We shouldn't submit it to the hourly wages we subject our time at work.

My students should be afraid: choosing what kind of work you'll do to a great extent means choosing who you'll be.

No one can discover you until you do. Exploit your talents, skills and strengths and make the world sit up and take notice.

I worked for a menial’s hire,Only to learn, dismayed,That any wage I had asked of Life,Life would have willingly paid.

Knowing what environments are a good fit requires a person to know about themselves, in other words, to have self-awareness.

Organizing one's life to respond to a threat one felt powerless about as a child can be a source of enormous inspiration.