Crystal Dunn Quotes

Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

You need to be strategic about how you define your leadership journey and where that takes you.

I saw Spurs as being a very good fit for me - but we were unable to agree financial terms with them... With hindsight, though, that was not a disaster.

I made the wrong decision myself in my career. I tried to battle against the system. I should have never done that, but I didn't have anybody else who showed me how to do it before. I did everything on instinct.

I know there are certain things I may never achieve depending on whether I stay at the Ospreys or go.

You weigh your pros and cons and what's real. You want to play baseball? Yeah. You want to go to school? If that's the best option, than that is what it is.

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

I want to make smart choices.

Most professional women I know - myself included - long since gave up looking for a rulebook or a roadmap; we make it up as we go along. Every day presents a new choice, a new challenge, which makes long-term career planning seem like an especially abstract exercise.

Having a career is a bit like navigating an Atlantic crossing - you have to make sure everything is keeping and is balanced.

I've always advocated using the break between product cycles as an opportunity to reflect and to look ahead, and that applies to me, too.

I had the opportunity to go with some other teams. But I didn't consider those teams to be contenders, and I was right.

If I were a strategically minded person, I think I would have a far different career.

In business, staying focused requires that you turn most opportunities down.

I realized a career is built as much on what you don't do as what you do do.

I have been in control of what I've been doing, of the career I've put together.

No matter what your career aspirations are, you should begin by thinking carefully about why you are engaging in any activity and what you can expect to get out of it.

I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?

There are a couple of projects that are sort of on the plate; I haven't closed any of them yet. I'm trying to figure out which one is going to be the best one for me.

I wait and take on projects that I think can work.

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

Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping their outcomes towards success or failure: long-term planning, and willingness to reconsider core values.

For me, if I knew that I wanted to be a CEO and I set that final destination right up front, that helped me develop a career track.

Every good businessman or woman carefully analyzes all the available facts before making a decision.

I have a very clear idea of what kind of career I want and the choices I need to make to get there.