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The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!

— Earl Nightingale

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.'

— Matthew Macfadyen

It's been a long career, and I've made some mistakes along the way.

— Rupert Murdoch

One tends to look back at the mistakes as the same thing - relinquishing control of something at some point in your career.

— Nick Mason

My career has been very strange. My career is like a heart monitor. I get involved in a good project now and then to keep things going. And then I make things that I work on that I hope are going to be good so I can make a living and keep a roof over the heads of those little monsters I have in my house.

— Michael Madsen

Never fear a job, always respect it, and always leave yourself a hind door to escape. May your hind door always be open.

— Red Adair

In my career, there have been roles I haven't taken because someone involved with the project gave me a bad vibe. I don't care how much money is on the table: No job is worth feeling uneasy every day.

— Gabrielle Union

✗Opposing Perspectives

I work for a place that's been great to me over the years, and when you make a mistake, you're hurting your company as well.

— John King

You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.

— An Wang

There's always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you're a fraud after all!

— Ben Stiller

You try and learn from some people's mistakes. But you have to really trust the people who are working for you because they make a lot of decisions that could either do well for you or really screw up your image.

— Mitch Gaylord