"‘Your brand is what other people say about you when you're not in the room."

- Jeff Bezos

"Interviews are a highly valued occurrence and must be viewed as the playoffs for the 'Championship Bowl' of your job search."

- Job Hunter Pro

"The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society ... more briefly, to find your real job, and do it."

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

"I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen."

- Frank Lloyd Wright

"Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun."

- Colleen C. Barrett

"The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more."

- Jonas Salk

"I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work."

- Pearl S. Buck

"Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night."

- Marian Wright Edelman

"Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing."

- Thomas Alva Edison

"The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it."

- Warren Bennis

"In a job interview, you may be up against nine competitors. Be ready to state your focus more clearly than your nine rivals. Know your focus or get beaten by the competition who knows theirs."

- Alan Fox

"The essence of your job search is centered on getting job interviews and then doing well in those interviews."

- Job Hunter Pro

"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there."

- Lewis Carroll

"Never wear a backward baseball cap to an interview unless applying for the job of umpire."

- Dan Zevin