Quotes with learn-on-the-job

Quotes 861 till 880 of 979.

  • Ben Horowitz When I was a CEO, the books on management that I read weren't very much help after the first few months on the job. They were all designed to give you directions on how not to screw up your company.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz When I was CEO, and I'd listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Bernard Arnault When I was working in my first job engineering construction, what I liked the most was working with architects and making buildings that had this creative side coming from the architect and that were making them a big success.
    Bernard Arnault
    French businessman (1949 - )
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  • Bruce Robinson When I was writing 'Withnail,' I was so busted flat that I had one lightbulb that I would carry around the house with me. I mean, really. No furniture, no money, and I was hoping to be an actor, but I could never get a job.
    Bruce Robinson
    English actor, director and novelist (1946 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Beth Riesgraf When I went to L.A., I started modeling, hoping to travel and learn from photographers. It led to auditions to do commercials.
    Beth Riesgraf
    American actress (1978 - )
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  • Carolyn Chute When I'm not writing, I do a lot of research reading on the shape of civilization. Fiction can be a lot of different things... but I feel like it's my job to write about the way things are.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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  • Barbara Demick When North Koreans cross the border into China, they are stunned to learn that the Chinese can afford to eat rice daily, sometimes for three meals daily.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Christian Cardell Corbet When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not because they think it will match their drapes!
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  • Katherine Mansfield When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
    Katherine Mansfield
    New Zealand-born British Author (1888 - 1923)
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  • Campbell Brown When Wolf Blitzer wears a not-so-great tie, how much e-mail do you think he gets? My point is, for women, unfortunately, appearance is part of the job.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Theodore Roosevelt When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Richard A. Nelson When you are through improving yourself, you are out of the game. You learn until your last breath.
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  • Ruth Gordon When you finally learn how to act, you're too old for the good parts.
    Ruth Gordon
    American actress (1896 - 1985)
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  • Beyonce Knowles When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don't know you think.
    Beyonce Knowles
    American singer and actress (1981 - )
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  • Brad Grey When you make content, you try things, and they don't always work. You learn from it and figure out what's next.
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  • Brigitte Nielsen When you makes movies, you usually make good money. But it is also a very tough job. Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life. And it is never a job from nine to five.
    Brigitte Nielsen
    Danish actress, model and singer (1963 - )
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  • Carrie-Anne Moss When you play a doctor, you have to look like you can do it but you don't actually go and do it. It's not like you learn how to cut open somebody and go do surgery. You have to think of a human being and not play the idea of what that would look like.
    Carrie-Anne Moss
    Canadian actress (1967 - )
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  • Maxwell Maltz When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative ''success mechanism'' within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or ''willpower.''
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Tom Landry When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
    Tom Landry
    American football player and coach (1924 - 2000)
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