John Terry Quotes

I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.

The best advice I can give women at all levels is increase training. There are still areas where we have to break through that glass ceiling.

One of the reasons that I'm still in the military - or I stayed in the military - is because I think the military has been a place where certainly people could improve, advance, and were treated fairly.

I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing.

If I had a normal job and had been moving up, I'd be management level now.

I don't believe that there is any particular book that influenced any 'career' I might have.

I just want a really varied career, and just to keep going, really.

You grow and learn a lot about the industry and what happens behind closed doors over the years.

For about the first ten years of my career, I wasn't terribly motivated.

If you'd asked me at the start of my career I would have said I was going to be a manager. I may still be in future, but there seemed to be an expectation it was a natural progression for me.

If my ambition was to stay a manager the rest of my life, then I'd probably follow what people think managers are supposed to be like, but my ambition was never to be a manager.

I think with anything career-related, there really is no rush.

Great leaders, the research shows, are made as they gradually acquire, in the course of their lives and careers, the competencies that make them so effective. The competencies can be learned by any leader, at any point.

One quality of leaders and high achievers in every area seems to be a commitment to ongoing personal and professional development.

No matter where you are in your leadership journey, never forget that what got you to where you are won't get you to the next level.

I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.

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

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.'

I haven't achieved as much as I should have done in my career.

While I'm trying to be different, I'm trying to be very conservative at this point in my career.

I have always been ambitious about getting a U.S. role, and if ever there is some frustration, it is still encouraging to get close to big roles because it implies there is somewhere to go.

I do want to be a manager one day. It might be 10 years, I don't know when.

I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.

You have to think of your career the way you look at the ocean, deciding which wave you're gonna take and which waves you're not gonna take. Some of the waves are going to be big, some are gonna be small, sometimes the sea is going to be calm. Your career is not going to be one steady march upward to glory.