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Presentation Date: October 15, 2019
- “A lot of us for instance are very good at our jobs but absolutely hopeless at job interviews” – Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet – Searching for your Tribe
- “It’s not whether you get knocked down. It’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi
- “If opportunity doesn’t knock, then build a door.” – Milton Berle
- “It’s perfectly normal to be nervous about job interviews. But if you get so anxious that your voice shakes, you can’t stop fidgeting or it’s hard to think clearly, that’s a problem. Fortunately, there’s a lot you can do about it.” – Thea Kelley, Get That Job! The Quick and Complete Guide to a Winning Interview
- “Finding a job that is a good fit is as much about you selecting the right company as it is about them selecting the right candidate.” – Miles Anthony Smith, Becoming Generation Flux: Why Traditional Career Planning is Dead: How to be Agile, Adapt to Ambiguity, and Develop Resilience
Presentation Date: October 8, 2019
- “Be a first-rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.” – Judy Garland
- “Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
- “We all have possibilities that we don’t know about. We can do things that we don’t even dream we can do.” – Dale Carnegie
- “Nothing is impossible. With so many people saying it couldn’t be done, all it takes is an imagination.” – Michael Phelps
- “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” – Michael Jordan
Presentation Date: October 1, 2019
- “Pulling a good network together takes effort, sincerity and time.” – Alan Collins
- “The successful networkers I know, the ones receiving tons of referrals and feeling truly happy about themselves, continually put the other person’s needs ahead of their own.” – Bob Burg
- “My Golden Rule of Networking is simple: Don’t keep score.” – Harvey Mackay
- “Networking is marketing. Marketing yourself, your uniqueness, what you stand for.” – Christine Comaford-Lynch
- “Know where you want to go and make sure the right people know about it.” – Meredith Mahoney
Presentation Date: September 24, 2019
- “If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you’re not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution to a problem you’re trying to solve.” – Jeff Bezos
- “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius
- “Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” – Coco Chanel
- “Courage is grace under pressure.” – Ernest Hemingway
- “Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.” – Oprah Winfrey
Presentation Date: September 17, 2019
- “I think there are many things that we can do today to make it a better work environment that is more supportive and encouraging of diversity.” – Aileen Lee
- “As CEO of a big company, I have to be a kind of a champion of the interests of our people as insofar as their ability to do their job, to feel comfortable in their work environment, and to be able to fulfill their ambitions.” – Lloyd Blankfein
- “The work environment is very important in determining how enjoyable work is. It is very important to work with smart guys who have a superior level of intellectual bandwidth and still have softer skills as well.” – Kumar Mangalam Birla
- “That’s the great thing about having your friends around you. I’ve known these guys forever. I really enjoy their company just as people. You couldn’t ask for a better work environment.” – Drew Carey
- “How do you change the world? Bring people together. Where is the easiest big place to bring people together? In the work environment.” – Adam Neuman
Presentation Date: September 10, 2019
- “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” – Bill Gates
- “Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.” – Bobby Unser
- “Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.” – Jim Rohn
- “To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.” – Reba McEntire
- “Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.” – Harold S. Geneen
Presentation Date: September 3, 2019
- “The real challenge is not what stands before us. Rather, it’s in believing what resides within us.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
- “There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.” ― G. K. Chesterton
- “Funny how “question” contains the word “quest” inside it, as though any small question asked is a journey through briars.” ― Catherynne M. Valente, Under in the Mere
- “There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them” ― Winston Churchill
- “It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.” ― Isaac Asimov
Presentation Date: August 27, 2019
- “No one will hit you harder than life itself. It doesn’t matter how hard you hit back. It’s about how much you can take, and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward. That’s how you win.” – Sylvester Stallone
- “Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.” – Jamie Paolinetti
- “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” – Stephen Covey
- “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
- “Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself; you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.” – Johnny Carson
Presentation Date: August 20, 2019
- “We all prospect, and don’t even know we’re doing it. When you start the dating process, you are actually prospecting for the person you want to marry. When you’re interviewing employees, you are prospecting for someone who will best fit your needs.” – Zig Ziglar
- “When you’re interviewing someone, you’re in control. When you’re being interviewed, you think you’re in control, but you’re not.” – Barbara Walters
- “The most pivotal moments in people’s lives revolve around emotions. Emotions make stories powerful.” – Brandon Stanton
- “My interviewing style and my approach to things is that, yes, it’s okay to be sincere; it’s okay to be yourself; it’s okay to be real.” – Eddie Trunk
- “Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.” – Dwayne Johnson
Presentation Date: August 13, 2019
- “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” – Og Mandino
- “Reinvention is the key to longevity. Don’t worry about getting old, worry about getting stale. Go to the grave very light.” – Bruce George
- “If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress, and tension. And if you didn’t ask me, I’d still have to say it.” – George Burns
- “Action is the foundational key to success.” – Pablo Picasso
- “If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” – Steve Jobs
Presentation Date: August 6, 2019
- “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but useful than a life spent doing nothing.” – George Bernard Shaw
- “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker
- “Your mind is a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds. You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds.” – Osho
- “Sometimes in life, you don’t always feel like a winner, but that doesn’t mean you’re not a winner.” – Lady Gaga
- “Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein
Presentation Date: July 30, 2019
- “Networking is marketing. Marketing yourself, your uniqueness, what you stand for.” – Christine Lynch
- “Networking is a lot like nutrition and fitness: we know what to do, the hard part is making it a top priority.” – Herminia Ibarra
- “Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.” – Brene Brown
- “Pulling a good network together takes effort, sincerity and time.” – Alan Collins
- “Know where you want to go and make sure the right people know about it.” – Meredith Mahoney
Presentation Date: July 23, 2019
- “The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.” – Simon Sinek
- “Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books – especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.” – John Wooden
- “I have learned that friendship isn’t about who you’ve known the longest, it’s about who came and never left your side.” – Yolanda Hadid
- “Share your smile with the world. It’s a symbol of friendship and peace.” – Christie Brinkley
- “There are no shortcuts to genuine friendship. Relationships are built over time.” – Rachel Simmons
Presentation Date: July 16, 2019
- “We all see only that which we are trained to see.” – Robert Anton Wilson, Masks of the Illuminati
- “When dealing with critics always remember this: Critics judge things based on what is outside of their content of understanding.” – Shannon L. Alder
- “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde
- “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt, This is My Story
Presentation Date: July 9, 2019
- “Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.” – Stephen R. Covey
- “Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.” – Mark Twain
- “You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.” – Dale Carnegie
- “We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.” – Joyce Meyer
- “Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” – Oprah Winfrey
Presentation Date: July 2, 2019
- “The biggest difference between time and space is that you can’t reuse time.” – Merrick Furst
- “Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.” – Henry Kissinger
- “That person who helps others simply because it should or must be done, and because it is the right thing to do, is indeed without a doubt, a real superhero.” – Stan Lee
- “Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” – John Wooden
- “Always remember your focus determines your reality.” – George Lucas
