Sometimes, low-level jobs are challenging even to someone with CEO potential. — Marty Nemko Ceo 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 Giving Copy Share Image
Being a good writer may result in your being nicer to more people, having a bigger positive impact. — Marty Nemko Being nice 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,… — Marty Nemko Change 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… — Marty Nemko Draws 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… — Marty Nemko Be confident 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… — Marty Nemko Coping 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… — Marty Nemko Believe 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… — Marty Nemko Ads 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… — Marty Nemko Average 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… — Marty Nemko Choices Copy Share Image
We're in an era in which we want to believe people have roughly equal potential. IQ gives the lie to that. — Marty Nemko Believe Copy Share Image
What may create even more jobs is to develop more entrepreneurs, of course, ethical ones. — Marty Nemko Business Copy Share Image
You need to create a 30-minute buffer between the end of your work time and sleep time. — Marty Nemko Ends Copy Share Image
If you have an ability, you want to exercise it, not anesthetize it. — Marty Nemko Ability Copy Share Image
Answering ads rarely works for career changers because you have no experience in the job for which you're applying. — Marty Nemko Ads Copy Share Image
Essayists write at a length that enables them, within a year, to explore a number of topics, whereas in a book, they'll… — Marty Nemko Addresses Copy Share Image
Some parents let kids "learn on their own skin" and many of those kids end up, as adults, languishing on their parents'… — Marty Nemko Adults Copy Share Image
Education isn't a magic pill. There is no magic pill. But the closest we have is practical expertise and relentless drive. — Marty Nemko Education Copy Share Image
Behaviorism is sometimes criticized as encouraging unethical behavior. For example, most organizations offer rewards for increasing revenue and threat of punishment, perhaps… — Marty Nemko Behavior 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… — Marty Nemko Acceptance Copy Share Image
A half-hour before bedtime, I remind myself that I now deserve to prepare myself for a good night's sleep. You can't focus… — Marty Nemko Bedtime Copy Share Image
It's absurd how aspirants to designer-label colleges become obsessed with perfection so they can get into one. I'm not convinced it's worth… — Marty Nemko Absurd 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,… — Marty Nemko Analysis Copy Share Image
Few people make a living as a public speaker but many people build it into their career. A career is like a… — Marty Nemko Boss Copy Share Image
I think people's feeling the need to be more dependent on others is caused more by the lack of good-paying jobs and… — Marty Nemko Dependent Copy Share Image
Many psychotherapists believe laziness is usually just the symptom. That the real problem is fear of failure, fear of success, or fear… — Marty Nemko Authority Copy Share Image
Being sleep-derived not only hurts you at work, it hurts your health. You need to value yourself enough to have good sleep… — Marty Nemko Enough Copy Share Image
I'm one of the many people for whom coffee helps but often, inattention is a symptom of something else: for example, that… — Marty Nemko Coffee Copy Share Image
