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  • I'd like to believe that achieving a leadership position is all about competency, capability and ambition, so I try not to distinguish between the sexes when it comes to giving career advice. -- Heather Bresch
  • God has been my number one inspiration. I also look up to Will Smith and Jamie Fox who are also personal friends of mine. They give me great career advice. I would also include Chris Stokes, as a filmmaker and music producer. I've been working with him since I was eight. -- Marques Houston
  • My first piece of career advice is find your gifting. Find the thing that you are skilled at and figure out if you can make a living doing it. -- Michelle Singletary
  • I've often been given the career advice to not wear too many hats, which, of course, has just encouraged me to wear other hats, such as being a writer, being a curator, or just doing anything outside of the definition of an artist. -- Matthew Brannon
  • Young people are looking for meaning and happiness to accompany their first paycheque. Inspire Your Career provides career advice designed to help you find more than just material success. Through its empowering and practical lessons, readers will find inspiration as they embark on their careers. -- Marc Kielburger
  • I've had lots of good career advice over the years. I've learned that you must always arrive knowing your lines, you must hit your marks, you must be punctual and cheerful and kind. I'm always irritated with young people who misbehave and young actors who are temperamental. I don't think there's any need for it. -- Jacki Weaver
  • This is what I tell young women who ask me for career advice. People are going to try to trick you. To make you feel that you are in competition with one another. You're up for a promotion. If they go for a woman, it'll be between you and Barbara. Don't be fooled. You're not in competition with other women. You're in competition with everyone. -- Tina Fey
  • I have two last pieces of advice. First, being pre-approved for a credit card does not mean you have to apply for it. And lastly, the best career advice I can give you is to get your own TV show. It pays well, the hours are good, and you are famous. And eventually some very nice people will give you a doctorate in fine arts for doing jack squat. -- Stephen Colbert
  • The best career advice to give to the young is, 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.' -- Katharine Whitehorn
  • I rarely need career advice because I don't have a career. No, that's not true. I can't really go far away while my kids are living with me. -- Nicole Holofcener
  • I don't get much career advice at all, and I would like some. --
  • My advice is to make acting your second career choice. -- Amber Tamblyn
  • I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. -- Gloria Steinem
  • The worst piece of advice I've gotten in my whole career is from somebody who said, 'Remember, it's all about likeability.' -- Clive Owen
  • It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other trade. -- William S. Burroughs
  • My advice for young Latinas interested in pursuing a career in Hollywood is to make sure you love to perform and make sure you get the training you need. -- Maria Canals Barrera
  • I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career and I cheesed off people without even knowing it, all the while thinking I was implementing good advice. -- Douglas Coupland
  • I've been very, very lucky in my career, in my life - from day one. When aspiring directors say, 'What's your advice?' first I say, 'Be born the son of a famous director. It's invaluable.' -- Jason Reitman
  • I was a contact hitter my whole career but I learned how to handle the ball inside. And Ted Williams played a big part in that. He gave me the advice on how to handle inside pitches. -- Tony Gwynn
  • My advice to young people is to get something that's growing because that's how you get career opportunities thrown at you that you don't deserve, if you will... that come at you early because the firms need you. -- Hamilton E. James
  • I'd never be where I am if more successful writers hadn't taken an interest in me and done me a good turn - be it chiming in with constructive criticism or giving me sound advice about my career plan. -- Sara Sheridan
  • I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career, and I cheesed off people without even knowing it, all the while thinking I was implementing good advice. Well, what can you do about it? Next. -- Douglas Coupland
  • Hollywood is fickle; your career can end pretty fast. If the acting jobs dry up, you have to have something to fall back on. In fact, that would be my advice to kids interested in acting - make sure you get an education too. -- Matthew Lawrence
  • Mentors provide professional networks, outlets for frustration, college and career counseling, general life advice, and most importantly, an extra voice telling a student they are smart enough and capable enough to cross the stage at graduation and land their first paycheck from a career pathway job. -- Gerald Chertavian
  • My career was quite unusual, so my main advice to someone interested in a career similar to my own is to remain open to change and new opportunities. I like to tell students that the jobs I took after my Ph.D. were not in existence only a few years before. -- Nancy Roman
  • I guess my music career is my personal life. You know, I've always been a writer who wants to write about my experiences. And so this experience being added to that, I - I want to live extraordinary experiences. And when I give advice to people, I want it to be sage advice. -- Jason Mraz
  • I remember once being told by a casting person, years ago, that I shouldn't pursue a career in the business because of the color of my skin. The fact that I remember it today means it stuck with me. I thought that was really stupid advice and advice nobody should ever give someone. -- Manish Dayal
  • My advice is to make acting your second career choice -- Amber Tamblyn
  • I don't even trust myself in my career much less giving somebody else advice. -- Tim McGraw
  • My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't. -- Simon Cowell
  • Develop a mentor at each stage of your career - someone who will give you guidance and advice. -- Brian Tracy
  • I enjoyed every bit of my swimming career. I think that's the most important advice - to enjoy what you do -- Summer Sanders
  • The worst piece of advice I've gotten in my whole career is from somebody who said, Remember, it's all about likeability. -- Clive Owen
  • One of the grave dangers inherent in the various stages of any theatrical career-whether it be budding, quiescent or diminishing-is the advice of friends. -- Moss Hart
  • The Internet had been a BIG help with my career. My advice to musicians, Internet is the key. It gets your music heard all across the world. -- Soulja Boy
  • The best advice I got throughout my career was understanding what my current managers' pains and challenges are - it's not always just about hitting the number. -- Jim McDonough
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