Edie Campbell Quotes

Something I can't stress enough is the massive importance of work experience. It's the only way to find out what work is really like when you're figuring out what path to take and to get an understanding of what it takes to achieve your career ambitions.

I got the first job and kept going. Once I got a job, I very much wanted to keep getting jobs, basically. I did try to learn what I could in those first couple of decades.

A strong mentor can help a young woman find and advance in the career of her dreams that otherwise may have seemed impossible.

Careers don't seem to be built up in the same way as they were in the 80s.

I get a lot of letters from people saying, 'How do I get into radio, how do I get into telly?' and I wish there was an answer, because there's no ladder. There are no parameters. You've just got to go in wherever you can, make the tea, and slowly make your way up the ladder.

It has been most rewarding to work in St. Louis, California, and New York and watch the people there grow and be promoted and go off to other opportunities and positions of responsibility.

Broaden your work experience - either within your company or through your job progression in other companies.

I've sort of overlapped every job that I've done, really.

I've been a paperboy, a short-order cook, a warehouse clerk, and, eventually, a partner at IBM.

I spent the first 15 years of my career in Seattle.

I started out as a lawyer and came in laterally to Goldman Sachs. So I learned myself that life is unpredictable. That you really should, in terms of your career, try to be excellent at what you're doing. I think if you focus on your job, and you focus on being broad in the context of your job, the next jobs follow from that.

Each of my career decisions has been very much about doing what I wanted to achieve in the role and then finding another challenge.

I really moved through my career based on curiosity about something. I never looked at a title and said, 'I want that.'

In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made.

The thing is, I wasn't surrounded by lots of people who were helping me build a career.

I don't believe in that kind of pragmatic career ladder stuff.

The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.

Nothing is a career move. Everything I've done this year has so not been a career move.

The career stuff is for business people.

My career has been my craziest adventure.

Sometimes people come out of school right now and they immediately want a job doing something. And there's nothing wrong with just listening and learning and watching.

I view my career like a rubber-band ball in that every role is a new experience building toward something bigger.

I've kind of looked at my whole career as a spring training invite.

I've never planned my career, really. It just comes along, and I do whatever comes next!

You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.