Gabe Newell Quotes

In the marathon obstacle course of a career, it's just good to have all the stats on paper for why you're not only a team player but also why it makes sense to support you in the projects you want to do - because you've made so much damned money for the studio.

Better degrees don't automatically translate into better skills and better jobs and better lives.

For most jobs, especially those in the digital economy, there is no objective standard for being 'qualified.' If you and the team you're working with think you're qualified, you are.

Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.

My advice to anyone would be to focus on your current job and be the best at it. The rest will take care of itself.

To us [The Lake Area Technical Institute of South Dakota -- LATI], a student is successful if they're placed [In a job, in more education or in the Military]. We talk to them about 'Where do you want to be? Where do you want to go with your life?

Women, whatever their profession, tend to have a harder time feeling ready for a job, even though in most cases they are more than prepared.

A man's prime interest in life must be his work.

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

If somebody were more passionate about Redfin, how would she not be more qualified to have my job than I am? Like, that's the thing I have to be the best at.

You need to be really great at your job. You need a strong network of peers, and you need a strong network of mentors.

I had an average career, but I was quite skilful.

I don't think you've done something by getting a job. I think you've done something by proving you can succeed at that job.

What's wrong with wanting to be better at your job?

Whatever job you're asked to do, whether you think it's mundane, boring, or beneath you, do the best job you can. No assignment should be treated as a task. Before you can climb the ladder, you need to build a good foundation.

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

Whatever job you take on, make yourself valuable, then indispensable.

You build a successful career, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job.

I never gave my career much strategic thought. Maybe I should have.

I never try boost my career of the less fortunate somebody. Because if I gotta call and get press off of it - it ain't coming from my heart.

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.

I'm seeing too many smart kind of socially awkward kids, a lot milder than I was, not getting employment because they're not learning job skills.

I started just naturally turning into a nicer person, and it actually helped broaden and lengthen my career.

The fellow who isn't fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.

Yeah we shine, gold cluster. As for your career? Dead, Ghost Busters.