Quotes on Career Development

“Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.”

“Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.”

“Excessive use of made up acronyms is a significant impediment to communication […] No one can actually remember all these acronyms and people don’t want to seem dumb in a meeting, so they just sit there in ignorance. This is particularly tough on new employees.”

“Own your work and compound credibility.”

—Charlie Munger

“I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.”

“Every person in your company is a vector. Your progress is determined by the sum of all vectors.”

“It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.”

“One of the really tough things is figuring out what questions to ask. Once you figure out the question, then the answer is relatively easy.”

“It takes twenty years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.”

—Warren Buffett

“I take the position that I'm always to some degree wrong, and the aspiration is to be less wrong.”

“No, I don't ever give up. I'd have to be dead or completely incapacitated”

“Never give up searching for the job that you are passionate about”

—Warren Buffett

“Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of whatever you’re doing is as valuable as gold.”

“You get paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of problems you solve”

“Having firstrate people on the team is more important than designing hierarchies and clarifying who reports to whom”

—Warren Buffett

“Never depend on single income. Make investment to create a second source.”

—Warren Buffett

“...not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.”

—Warren Buffett

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.”

—Warren Buffett

“A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.”

“E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.”

“People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.”

—Warren Buffett

“Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.”

—Warren Buffett

“It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.”

—Warren Buffett

“Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing”

—Warren Buffett

“The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.”

—Warren Buffett

“Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”

—Warren Buffett

“Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it’s true. If you hire somebody without [integrity], you really want them to be dumb and lazy.”

—Warren Buffett