Today's Quote: Slightly Famous Difference Maker

“Few things irritate me more than when people say they’re helpless, or even indifferent, to distinguishing themselves from their peers and colleagues.  

I remember giving advice to an extremely smart young guy named Kevin, who was working at the consultancy PriceWaterhouseCoopers. In the course of our discussion, he told me he wasn't happy with what he was doing or how his career was playing out. He was, he told me, just another anonymous number cruncher with no alternatives given the staid environment there. 

“Wrong!” I told him. “You have alternatives, you’re just not creating them for yourself. You have to start taking ownership of managing your career. You have to start making an effort to change your brand from anonymous number cruncher to slightly famous difference maker.” 

Keith Ferrazzi, Never Eat Alone