Clayton Christensen Quotes

You only have a true choice when you know what opportunities are out there and what qualifications you need.

And so I'm still giving some thought - I will transition hopefully into the corporate world. And I look forward to getting involved in several other areas that I have a great interest in.

On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.

I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work as a lawyer, but that proved to be not a good fit for me.

Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along.

There's an awful lot of choices in the world as far as what one can do for a living. It's best to be familiar with as many sectors of the working world as you can be so you'll be better at your creative job anyway.

I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role.

Choosing a role is very difficult. There's no way to have a strategy.

It didn't seem remotely possible. I had no idea how people got those jobs, I didn't know what the steps were, it never even dawned on me. It seemed so outside the realm of possibility.

I got my transferrable skills from working at entry-level, gauging what I wanted from my career, and making sure I had what it took to get the one I truly wanted. But now there's a Catch 22: school leavers need experience to get jobs, but they can't get experience without jobs.

If I want another job, I'll get one. I haven't set a date of when to stop managing.

I think I did experimental roles too early in my career.

I have an interest in everything, but I don't have an interest in starting new careers.

As you move along, it's about choices. Once you've gathered enough credits, you have to be more specific. You have to know what level of show you want to work on and be willing to turn down a lot of work to have the career you want.

At the end of our NASA careers, no one had a place for us in the military.

We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum.

I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I'm doing something wrong.

It will be difficult to finish my career here. I don't know if I am going to end it at Barcelona, although I would like to. I don't know what is going to happen.

I rarely need career advice because I don't have a career. No, that's not true. I can't really go far away while my kids are living with me.

The career stuff is for business people.

I planned on being an English teacher, but I don't know where that went.

Looking back I find it hard to believe that I could forge a career in anything other than football but I didn't do too badly in my final exams and there were a few business-related courses that interested me.

Careers can disappear just as quickly as they're made, so I'm in no hurry.

I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.

When I left college I thought - based on a staggeringly inadequate understanding of how the world worked - that I might like to go into book publishing.