Dara Khosrowshahi Quotes

I think people tend to apply where they think the greatest opportunities lie.

When somebody is enthusiastic about a job opportunity - but gives off the feeling that this is not the only one they have on the table - they become more seductive in the employer's eyes. You become more desirable because it shows that you're making a conscious and thoughtful decision for the right reasons.

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

I'm just like any person who is coaching in this league, I'm just looking for an opportunity, that's all.

The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.

I don't really know why I went to law school.

I've never categorically been a banker. I had two internships while I was at university. The decision was more banking, or magic, and I went with the latter.

If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.

I regard office as not an end but an opportunity.

I was never afraid of taking the wrong job because maybe it would hurt me. I was more interested in the experience.

Years ago, I saw a job for head baker for The Dorchester Hotel in London, and I didn't want to move away from the North West. But then I thought, 'I've got to do this for my career,' because I was very ambitious. So I went for it and got the job.

Even now, when people ask me, 'Why did you take the job at Uber?' I say because my gut told me to.

In my late teens and early 20s, I worked hard on my roles, but, to be honest, I didn't feel any special commitment to acting.

One day I'll know what it's like to be a manager.

There's nothing about Lynn Good at age 30 or age 35 that would have said, 'I am setting my sights on being a CEO.'

Til I am getting my choice of work, I will keep working.

I feel unfulfilled in England. I think I'm a decent manager and a very good coach. I've still got a lot to offer some club who will maybe take a chance on me.

Providence had a graduate assistant job opening. They asked me if I wanted to apply, and I applied. That break right there put me in position to learn from great coaches. It really jump-started every other good break I ever had in coaching.

If someone had told me age 14 to start making serious decisions about my career, I'd have laughed!

I always focus on what is next in my career.

You've got to do what's best for you and what you want to accomplish in your career.

Even though I have been receiving offers left, right and centre, I have been a little choosy about my projects.

I think God made this very path for me, and he guided me all throughout. And my family has always been very supportive. It's not like one day I sat across the dinner table and told them I want to be an actor. It didn't happen like that.

I do remember feeling, 'I don't ever want to feel impotent in terms of what I can control in a business in which you can have very little control.' And that motivated me to go to law school - that, and my parents saying, 'Go to law school before you do anything.'

I actually had a number of different careers. I worked on Wall Street; I was a Master's in Business. I left that to work in the public sector.