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Quotes About Career

It's the most unglamourous glamour business in the world.
~ Minnie Pearl
If I wasn't a trader, I would probably be in the film business in some capacity and writing in some other form. I went to NYU Film School and London Film School.
~ Jeff Cooper
Sun Cellular is the biggest investment in my business career.
~ John Gokongwei
I am not embarrassed to be a banker. I am not embarrassed to be in business.
~ Jamie Dimon
Get out of show business. Its the best advice I ever got, because Im so stubborn that if someone would tell me that, I would stay in it to the bitter end.
~ Walter Matthau
I'm not a career politician. I spent 30 years in business. I can tell you that people in California have had it with career politicians: they are done.
~ Meg Whitman
I have always been a business person.
~ Bethenny Frankel
Accept that no matter where you go to work, you are not an employee you are a business with one employee, you. Nobody owes you a career. You own it, as a sole proprietor.
~ Andy Grove
The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.
~ Kevin Hart
'10' was amazing! I had no career before '10' and then all of a sudden I was able to do pretty much whatever I was able to do in the business.
~ Bo Derek
I am constantly asked why I never made other films after 'There's No Business Like Show Business,' the answer is I was never asked.
~ Unknown
I mentioned that I was thinking of getting out of the business after Call Me Madam. I thought maybe I should become a homebody.
~ Ethel Merman
Television isn't my career. Business is.
~ Fran Tarkenton
I'll keep on acting 'til they wipe the drool. I like the business. I like to do different parts and diverse characters. I haven't lost my enthusiasm yet!
~ Robert Duvall
To be successful in show business, all you need are 50 good breaks.
~ Walter Matthau
To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.
~ William Standish Knowles
Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.
~ Carroll O'Connor
I feel like I'm at a level in my business where I've established myself as a professional. And the one thing I haven't managed to do is find a way to achieve a better balance.
~ Megyn Kelly
People say you never retire in this [film] business and I say, well, not until they retire you.
~ John Hurt
People always say, well, how do you get through show business? How do you swim the waters? And how do you survive and all that? I had a very solid method, and that is team up with ambitious partners.
~ Garry Marshall
I am not in this business as a calling. I don't do what I do to right any wrongs.
~ Morley Safer
I didn't come into the business to get awards or titles.
~ Julie Walters
The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.
~ Tom Courtenay
Which to this day is a source of enormous guilt, because I left with three classes to go in the business school to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox.
~ Tom Selleck