Graydon Carter Quotes

With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?

Drugs won't enhance your performance.

I think I have made an impact in the workplace and I do believe that will prevail over any of the other things in the end.

But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job.

I have never taken any substance to enhance my performance.

I want people to concentrate not on my job but on their jobs.

If it weren't for my education, I truly wouldn't be as successful at my job as a model.

When I look back and think about it, I feel my career was fairly good but, certainly, not tremendous.

We don't get offered roles because of who we are but because of what we delivered in the past.

As modern-day professionals it all comes down to how you perform on the pitch.

My work is appreciated; I am getting good offers. Honestly, we are both doing well professionally. My husband has also been busy with work, and so have I.

More efficient workers are always in an employer's best interest.

If you look at my career statistics, it's not pretty.

Stop overanalyzing how you 'feel' about your job and focus on being great at it. That will lead to bigger and better opportunities.

Time is money, and the more breaks given, the less money that is made.

The fundamental reality for every worker, from sweeper to executive vice-president, is the eight hours or so that he spends on the job. In our society of organizations, it is the job through which the great majority has access to achievement, to fulfillment, and to community.

An employer has no business with a man's personality... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.

I think that it's insidious to be spending more of your time reflecting and talking about panels, and talking more and more in smart ways about your otherness, rather than doing the hard work of your job.

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

No poem was ever written by a drinker of water.

I didn't go to Cirque Lodge for alcohol abuse or drug abuse.

Pretty much any drug you can name, I've done it.

I have been drunk now for over two weeks.

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

This game has taken a lot of guys over the years who would have had to work in factories and gas stations and made them prominent people. I only had a high school education, and believe me, I had to cheat to get that. There isn't a college in the world that would have me and yet in this business you can walk into a room with millionaires, doctors, professional people and get more attention than they get. I don't know any other business where you can do that.