Some parents let kids "learn on their own skin" and many of those kids end up, as adults, languishing on their parents' sofas. — Marty Nemko Copy Share Image
Senescence is an inevitability. All we can do is try to strike the balance between graceful acceptance and raging against the dying light. — Marty Nemko Copy Share Image
The lack of crispness comes significantly from a societal change in what's valued: a replacement of bold individual initiative with collaboration, consensus, teamwork etc.… — Marty Nemko Copy Share Image
As a writer, you have control: You can play around with your own thoughts and when you find those insufficient, draw upon others': their… — Marty Nemko Copy Share Image
If you don't know what career you'd change to, I've come to believe in starting with your values. What do you care most about:… — Marty Nemko Copy Share Image
When you're going to school primarily for career purposes, it's more important to focus on which program is best for you. In addition, your… — Marty Nemko Copy Share Image
I believe that a core problem with undergraduate education, especially at research universities like Harvard, Stanford, NYU, etc, is that most teaching is done… — Marty Nemko Copy Share Image
Only someone who already knows and likes you is likely to give you a good job with modest relevant experience. — Marty Nemko Copy Share Image
I believe the personal essay is underrated for both writer and reader. It affords the writer great freedom: to speak personally yet invoke others'… — Marty Nemko Copy Share Image
Being a good writer may result in your being nicer to more people, having a bigger positive impact. — Marty Nemko Copy Share Image
You might want to keep trying to rise, using a path that builds on your natural strengths: sales, analysis, managing people, whatever, and keep… — Marty Nemko Copy Share Image
Liberalism's key principle is to redistribute wealth from the haves to the have nots. That takes money from the entities with the greatest potential… — Marty Nemko Copy Share Image
Some people who are recovering from depression want to use the lessons they're learned in coping with depression and their empathy for people with… — Marty Nemko Copy Share Image
Sometimes, low-level jobs are challenging even to someone with CEO potential. — Marty Nemko Copy Share Image
What may create even more jobs is to develop more entrepreneurs, of course, ethical ones. — Marty Nemko Copy Share Image
You need to create a 30-minute buffer between the end of your work time and sleep time. — Marty Nemko Copy Share Image
