The job search isn’t always easy. Finding a new job requires determination and patience. You'll need the same once you’ve landed a position. Anytime you need a motivational boost, read these career quotes from our founder, Robert Half. For more than 50 years, he helped professionals just like you find rewarding work.

1. 20 Career
Quotes
to Help You Land Your Next Job,
Advance Professionally and
Be Inspired at Work

2. “Finding a good job is a
job and a half.”
– Robert Half

3. “A resume will seldom get
you a job offer. A resume
will often lose you a job
offer.”
– Robert Half

4. “The interview is an
audition – it’s your
opportunity to be a star.”
– Robert Half

5. “Selling yourself is the
most important and most
difficult sale you can
make.”
– Robert Half

6. “Planning doesn’t necessarily
make things happen, but it
certainly encourages things to
happen.”
– Robert Half

7. “Credentials are not the same
as accomplishments.”
– Robert Half

8. “Getting off on the right
foot will prevent you from
being left behind.”
– Robert Half

9. “If you think it might not be
ethical – it isn’t.”
– Robert Half

10. “It takes more than one to
get things done.”
– Robert Half

11. “Someone who gets no
help makes no progress.”
– Robert Half

12. “The ladder to success is
not an escalator.”
– Robert Half

13. “Asking the right
questions takes as much
skill as giving the right
answers.”
– Robert Half

14. “The ability to
communicate is the link
between your knowledge
and your success.”
– Robert Half

15. “Convincing yourself does
not win an argument.”
– Robert Half

16. “Ability is useless unless
it’s used.”
– Robert Half

17. “Ego trip: a journey to
nowhere.”
– Robert Half

18. “Quitting a job is better
than quitting on the job.”
– Robert Half

19. “When you arrive at your
future, will you blame your
past?”
– Robert Half

20. “Persistence is what makes
the impossible possible, the
possible likely and the likely
definite.”
– Robert Half

21. “Enough is never enough.”
– Robert Half

22. Let Robert Half help with
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