A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Earl NightingaleRead
The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!
Interpretation
What this quote means
Take charge of your own career instead of relying on your employers.
Earl Nightingale emphasizes the importance of individual responsibility in one's career. He suggests that job security is no longer guaranteed by companies, and therefore, individuals must drive their own career paths, recognizing that while jobs belong to organizations, the trajectory of one's career is in their own hands.
Themes
CareerResponsibilityIndividualSuccessJob Security
In practice
Example use cases
In a career development seminar to motivate individuals to take control of their professional growth.
More from Earl Nightingale
All quotes →If the grass is greener on the other side it`s probably getting better care. Success is a matter of sticking to a set of common sense principles anyone can master.
Earl NightingaleRead
Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
Earl NightingaleRead
Problems are challenges to creative minds. Without problems, there would be little reason to think at all.
Earl NightingaleRead
The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else.
Earl NightingaleRead
Do what experts since the dawn of recorded history have told you you must do: pay the price by becoming the person you want to become. It's not nearly as difficult as living unsuccessfully.
Earl NightingaleRead
Similar quotes
You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, like, 'Why didn't I choose something else?' But overall I'm pretty satisfied that I made the right choice when I decided to be an actor.
Gene HackmanRead
Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.
Magnus CarlsenRead
Focus on building the best possible business. If you are great, people will notice and opportunities will appear.
Mark CubanRead
My history has been to grow the roots as deeply as you can before going on to the next thing. That's why it took 10 years to go from Union Square Cafe to Gramercy Tavern, and another 10 years to go from Blue Smoke's first location to its second, and five to go from Shake Shack 1 to Shake Shack 2.
Danny MeyerRead
There is no evidence that success in business will make us happy people or allow us to have happy families.
Clayton M. ChristensenRead
Knowledge will not attract money, unless it is organized, and intelligently directed, through practical plans of action, to the definite end of accumulation of money.
Napoleon HillRead