I worked in a factory for six months and was a firefighter in Cookeville for several years. They paid my tuition, and I got a lot of life experience during that time that helped me grow up.
I should say in general the advantage of education is to better fit a man for life's work. I would advise young men to take a college course, as a rule, but think some are just as well off with a thorough business training.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Management has never been the most important thing for me.
All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take the examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one be a penny the stupider.
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.
The more you learn the more you earn.
A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose. . . .
I got hired by the Cards when I was 21, and I could handle the job, but for the most part, I got hired because I was somebody's kid. When you start that way, you have a lot to prove.
Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
My business acumen is definitely growing.
People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.
If you're making money, and you've hit your targets for five years, you don't need to demand a new contract.
I aspire to be useful.
I love working in America, I love being part of the industry out here.
I've never been pushy. People have said I should have been, more, but I'm not sure. I've watched hugely ambitious people: the minute they've got a success, they know where it's going, they know how to deal with it, and it all happens for them. Great. But that's not the way I - well, I don't like to use the word 'operate'.
If, in a few months, I'm only number 8 or number 10 in the world, I'll have to look at what off-the-court work I can do. I will need to do something if I want to be number 1.
Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.
I think I really benefited from going to college.
Careers can disappear just as quickly as they're made, so I'm in no hurry.
I think when you're done with work, you go home.
Many women try to advance in their careers by having all the answers; by being the go-to person for information and advice; or by building expertise in a particular field. However, as they progress, gain broader responsibilities, and grow into leadership roles, they realize that their span of control is too vast to be able to know every answer.
