The document outlines ten essential quotes and strategies for ensuring long-term career success. Key themes include aiming for excellence, lifelong learning, networking, developing valuable skills, maintaining optimism, protecting one's reputation, owning one's career, taking risks, embracing randomness, and being a builder. These principles are supported by insights from various successful individuals who emphasize the importance of personal responsibility and continuous growth.

1. FUTURE-PROOF YOUR CAREER
10 Quotes that will guarantee your employment - forever.

2. 1. AIM FOR THE TOP OF YOUR FIELD
If you want an average successful life, it doesn’t
take much planning. Just stay out of trouble, go to
school, and apply for jobs you might like. But if
you want something extraordinary, you have two
paths:
1. Become the best at one specific thing.
2. Become very good (top 25%) at two or more
things. In either case, commit to being excellent at
what you do.
SCOTT ADAMS, CREATOR OF DILBERT

3. My biggest motivation? Just to keep
challenging myself. I see life almost like
one long university education that I
never had – every day I’m learning
something new.
R I C H A R D B R A N S O N
2. Be a lifelong learner

4. You are the average of the
5 people you spend the
most time with.
J I M R O H N
3. CULTIVATE A POWERFUL
NETWORK

5. 4. Develop in-demand skills
Basic economic theory tells us that if you want something that’s both
rare and valuable. You need something rare and valuable to offer in
return—this is Supply and Demand 101. It follows that if you want a
great job, you need something of great value to offer in return.
Cal Newport

6. 5. BE AN OPTIMIST
OPTIMISM IS “AN ESSENTIAL
INGREDIENT OF INNOVATION. HOW
ELSE CAN THE INDIVIDUAL WELCOME
CHANGE OVER SECURITY, ADVENTURE
OVER STAYING IN SAFE PLACES?
ROBERT NOYCE, FOUNDER OF INTEL

7. Money can be made again,
but a lost reputation is gone
forever.
SAM ZEMURRAY, OWNER OF UNITED FRUIT
6. PROTECT YOUR
REPUTATION

8. 7. OWN YOUR CAREER
T H E B I G G E S T M I S T A K E T H A T Y O U
C A N M A K E I S T O B E L I E V E T H A T Y O U
A R E W O R K I N G F O R S O M E B O D Y E L S E .
J O B S E C U R I T Y I S G O N E . T H E D R I V I N G
F O R C E O F A C A R E E R M U S T C O M E
F R O M T H E I N D I V I D U A L . R E M E M B E R :
J O B S A R E O W N E D B Y T H E C O M P A N Y ,
Y O U O W N Y O U R C A R E E R !
E A R L N I G H T I N G A L E

9. “Every risk is worth taking as long
as it’s for a good cause, and
contributes to a good life.”
RICHARD BRANSON
8. BE A RISK TAKER

10. 9. EXPOSE YOURSELF TO RANDOMNESS
I firmly believe that if we keep our mind open and
explore the unknown, good things will (eventually)
happen. If I reflect on some of the best things in
my life they are more a result of random events
(which I took advantage of) than a concerted effort
towards any single outcome.
Ben Casnocha, Author of The Startup of You

11. You are capable of making a difference,
of being bold, and of changing more
than you are willing to admit. You are
capable of making art.
10. BE A BUILDER
S E T H G O D I N

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