Travis Bradberry Quotes

You can't just coast along. You need to be extraordinary. If you want a promotion or a raise, ask yourself, 'How can I behave in a way to get my boss to believe I deserve one?'

At the bare minimum, you need to be in your position for a year before you ask for a raise or title change.

I've wanted to manage a long time and I've been moving in that direction.

When you start your career, you have to figure out a way to separate yourself from the pack. So I went for a kind of preppy, psycho-killer look: I had short hair, grey flannel pants, and a button-down shirt. I think it worked, because nobody else was looking that way at that time.

No one's calling me for lawyer roles. I still have a lot to do to prove myself.

I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I'm doing something wrong.

The whole purpose of annual reviews is to keep you abreast of whether or not you are fulfilling the requirements of tenure.

I just want to make a name for myself and get to the next level.

I think about what I've accomplished and my career. I care about how many wins I have and whether I'm accomplishing my goals.

If you want a CEO role, you have to prepare for it with a vengeance.

What we need to be able to do is count all human experience. So I would like to count the secretarial positions as good training places to take over the jobs of the bosses.

My mom worked at McDonald's, and she decided she wanted to make more money, so she got into the management program at McDonald's. And that's how you move up the chain. It's not by demanding that minimum wage is raised; it's by actually acquiring the skills. That's the way that people get ahead in life.

I knew if I wanted to be a general manager, I was going to have to leave to work for another organization.

As soon as I became proactive in producing my own stuff, I started getting other roles.

When you want a raise, you're not only going in saying: 'I want more money.' You're going in and saying: 'Here's what I want out of my career. Here's what I accomplished. Here's what I said I was going to do. Here's what I've done. Not only do I deserve more money, but I want to get to here on my career.'

Performance is always something that will be a part of my career.

I had a passion to not be a secretary forever. I was mindful of the customary career trajectory, and I knew I had to do something remarkable.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

When you get to a certain point in your career, it's easy to just phone it in, to get complacent. If you're not careful, you can stop challenging yourself.

I think it's like any other job. If you want an extension as a reporter or a media guy or whatever you want to do, I think you are going to open up your ears to talking about a raise or whatever it might be. I'm in the same position.

At the beginning of my career before anything started propelling, I used to blow up everybody. I was trying to work with whoever got next.

When I go into management, I want to do so with 100 per cent commitment.

What I've been doing over the course of my career - everybody's been seeing me be my best self.

My career needs to progress. Time's ticking.

I have always tried to market myself.