Ben Rhodes Quotes

It was hard to know if anything, any one particular thing, increased my career or not.

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.

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.

My career has had a lot of ups and downs, but basically it has been wonderful.

I feel like my career has been a series of glowing obituaries.

I can't complain about my career, that's for sure.

I accomplished so many things, so early in my career.

I just love where I am right now in my career.

I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.

My dream job has already happened.

I have a career, I worked so hard for it.

I had a wonderful career.

It's not like a corporate job where the more you accumulate on your resume and the more hours you put in, the higher up you get; it's simply not the case. That being said, if I had known that and known what kind of career I'd get into, I still would have pursued it.

One day, I looked up and saw I had an extensive resume and saw how I did that and did not realize it because you are constantly working and trying to build a body of work.

I'm having a great career, though I think I'm not as good as your little scenario makes me out to be.

I want to have a long career.

The challenge of life, I have found, is to build a resume that doesn't simply tell a story about what you want to be, but it's a story about who you want to be.

When I was still a bright-eyed McKinsey consultant, I remember hitting a point where I didn't know what to do next, and someone gave me the book, 'How Remarkable Women Lead,' and I read it and scribbled in it, and it felt like a guide in helping me figure out my career.

It's often said that if doing something was easy, everyone would be doing it. I think that's particularly true when you're trying to make your mark or architect your own career. There's often not a path to follow.

I am proud of my career.

I've worked for a long time to get myself in a position where maybe I'd be fortunate enough to land one of the big jobs.

It's kind of nice, and rewarding, to have been on the journey from having to play football and work to being a professional.

I'm just confident about where my career is headed.

I've had a good career, some good experiences.

Sometimes people think there is only one track to get to whatever your particular dream job is.