Richard Nelson Bolles Quotes

Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age is like a long weekend on Monday afternoon. - Richard Nelson Bolles

What Color Is Your Parachute? - Richard Nelson Bolles

There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long. - Richard Nelson Bolles

The key to a happy and fulfilling future is knowing yourself. This self-knowledge is the most important component of finding the right career. - Richard Nelson Bolles

Tests have one great mission and purpose: To give you ideas you hadn't thought of and suggestions worth following up... But if you ask them to do more than that, you're asking too much. - Richard Nelson Bolles

Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do. - Richard Nelson Bolles

Many people take career tests with the hope that someone can definitely tell them who they are and what they should do. No test can do that. I recommend that people use the results of their career interest tests to stimulate their own ideas about possible occupations. - Richard Nelson Bolles

I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change. - Richard Nelson Bolles

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