Gauri Khan Quotes

The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.

Try out lots of different options early in your career. Then watch the responses: how you feel, what the market values, what people appreciate about you. It's the only way to find work that's uniquely right for you.

I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go work for somebody somewhere. All I knew was that I was going to have to come home and figure it out.

I'm not great at judging a career. Or planning one.

I'd had a variety of jobs - shop assistant, writer of children's magazines - but had found myself, funnily enough, as quite an uninformed sports journalist so I might have stuck with that, but I would never have been very good at it.

One of the biggest questions that we hear from young graduates is, 'I'm not even sure where to start because I'm not quite sure who I want to be yet.'

I don't know if I have a career or not, or where it ends or it begins. I have been working, doing what I do for a long time. But my creative process has always been so tortuous.

At times, I think of my career as a map. The closer you get to the map, the more you know where you are, but the closer I get to my career, the less happy I feel. At the same time, I have carved out the career for myself which I wanted.

I loved my boarding school, but I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't have a career.

For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find something that fit me and I just decided that if I could organically make a professional living out of the things that interested me, then I would be a happy person.

I kind of have never thought about a career path, which is an unusual approach.

I think that the best career that someone can have is one that's reflective of their personal tastes.

I worked as a parking lot attendant for a while and a delivery boy and two or three other things, but none of them seemed just right.

I've been wondering for a while now if the CEO role is one that I want - and the one that I'm best at.

I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do.

I want to have the career that is my choice - what interests me, what doesn't. I feel more and more strongly about that.

After graduating from college I worked at a variety of jobs, from banking to politics. I enjoyed whatever I was doing at the time but I didn't love my work.

I have now spent over a year trying to figure where in the workplace I belong.

I don't have a career plan. I'm not strategic enough.

I'm sure some people have an absolute grasp of where they are in their careers. I just don't think about it that much.

I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.

I did some good stuff over in the U.K., but I wasn't consistently working. For a while there, I was going, 'Do I really want to do this - should I go back to university?'

That time when you're waiting for a job can be the most impactful and important time because you develop your preferences as a person. Knowing what you like will make you more confident. And then you'll stand out.

One day I woke up, and I felt like I knew I wanted to be an analyst and a broadcaster.

When I started with 'Cocktail,' I was trying to figure out if this was something I wanted to do.