Quotes about "Work & Career"

My job is to persuade people to toe the line and play within the laws of the game. ”

Computer science inverts the normal. In normal science, you're given a world, and your job is to find out the rules. In computer science, you give the computer the rules, and it creates the world. ”

The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all. ”

Polymer synthesis in the 1950s was dominated by Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta, whose discoveries of polymerization catalysts were of great importance for the development of the modem 'plastics' industry. ”

I only started concentrating on football as a career when I left school at 18. I played golf for the Scottish and British boys' teams. ”

Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs. ”

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading. ”

I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University. ”

The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake. ”

One of the problems with hedge funds is that they are changing so rapidly. If you have the balance sheet that closed business last night, by 11 A.M. this morning, that won't tell you very much about what they're doing. ”