13 career advice quotes from Mark Cuban to Hunter S. Thompson that will help you build your best career. These quotes are designed to make you think about what is important to you, how to develop the right skills, and how to take the right risks to build an amazing career. Brought to you by the new https://visualcv.com.

1. 13 must-read quotes for
building your dream career
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2. Resolve to pay any price or make any sacrifice
to get into the top 10% in your field. The payoff
is incredible.
BRIANTRACY
MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER AND AUTHOR
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3. Don’t have a dream. Do things well and pursue
things that seem interesting. Practice passionate
dedication to the pursuit of short term goals. Be
micro-ambitious. Put your head down and work
with pride on whatever is in front of you, as you
never know where it is going to lead.
The next worthy pursuit will probably appear in
your periphery, and if you focus too much on long
term goals you won’t see the shiny thing out of
the corner of your eye.
Tim Minchin
ACTOR, MUSICIAN AND COMEDIAN
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4. Don’t follow your passions, follow your effort. It
will lead you to your passions and to success,
however you define it.
Mark Cuban
OWNER OF THE DALLAS MAVERICKS
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5. No one is keeping you from your dream job. In
fact, the people hiring for your dream job are
sitting around wondering where the fuck they can
find some good applicants. The same applies to
basically everything else.
RYAN HOLIDAY
AUTHOR OF THE OBSTACLE IS THE WAY: THE TIMELESS ART
OF TURNING TRIALS INTO TRIUMPH
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6. As I see it then, the formula runs something like
this: a man must choose a path which will let his
ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward
the gratification of his DESIRES. In doing this, he
is fulfilling a need (giving himself identity by
functioning in a set pattern toward a set goal) he
avoids frustrating his potential (choosing a path
which puts no limit on his self-development), and
he avoids the terror of seeing his goal wilt or lose
its charm as he draws closer to it (rather than
bending himself to meet the demands of that
which he seeks, he has bent his goal to conform
to his own abilities and desires).
Hunter S.Thompson
AUTHOR OF FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS
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7. If your goal is to love what you do, your first step
is to acquire career capital. Your next step is to
invest this capital in the traits that define great
work. Control is one of the most important targets
you can choose for this investment.
CALNEWPORT
AUTHOR OF SO GOOD THEY CAN’T IGNORE YOU: WHY SKILLS
TRUMP PASSION IN THE QUEST FOR WORK YOU LOVE
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8. I mean, you want to get on a train that's going to go
90 miles an hour and not one that's gonna go 30
miles an hour and you're gonna try to figure out how
to, you know, push it along a little faster. So it really
does make a huge difference. And there are some
businesses that inherently [have] far more
opportunities than others.
WARREN BUFFETT
CHAIRMAN AND CEO OF BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY
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9. Your mind must accept a very absolute truth: if
you work extremely hard, you’ll probably get most
of what you want, but if you work an average
amount or less, you will not get what you want.
TYNAN
FOUNDER OF SETT
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10. Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.
BEN CASNOCHA
ENTREPRENEUR AND WRITER
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11. If you make your bed every morning you will have
accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you
a small sense of pride and it will encourage you to
do another task and another and another.
By the end of the day, that one task completed will
have turned into many tasks completed. Making your
bed will also reinforce the fact that little things in life
matter.
WILLIAM H. MCRAVEN
US NAVY ADMIRAL
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12. In a world marked by constant change, where the
rich of today are often the poor of tomorrow, due to
circumstances beyond their control, the only
security is your ability to produce something of
value for your fellow man, and your only guarantee
of happiness is your joy in producing it.
WILLIAM J. REILLY
AUTHOR OF HOW TO AVOID WORK
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13. And in truth, I've never known a man worth his salt
who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't
appreciate the grind, the discipline. The difference
between a successful person and others is not a
lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but
rather... a lack of will.
VINCE LOMBARDI
HALL OF FAME NFL COACH
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14. If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't
ask what seat! Just get on.
SHERYLSANDBERG
COO OF FACEBOOK
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