Quotes About Career

The biggest mistake I ever made was snorting cocaine. The second biggest mistake was I didn't realize that show business was two words.

I've always got the road. Stand-up makes you so autonomous and self-sufficient that it really helps with that part of show business.

I think it's important to make sure you learn and understand the business that you are in, but it's also important to not let that get in the way of your main focus.

Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah.

My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one.

As an actor you have to wait for someone to cast you, so you're relying on the business.

I've been able to write at least one book a year for 20 years, and I don't think I would've had that kind of drive if I hadn't come out of the journalism business.

We need more people to go into business and fewer wasting our lives becoming bureaucrats and civil servants.

I thought I was going to be a math major. My parents were both accountants and wanted me to major in business. Math was our compromise.

There was never any pressure on me to go into the business, but I was always aware of it. I'd go on the set with my father and he and my mother would always be singing.

This is the difference between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton and Sen. Kaine. They are career public servants. Donald Trump is a businessman, not a career politician. He built a business.

As a little boy, I wanted to be a policeman. And then as I got older, and I saw my dad in the car business, an automobile executive.

My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.

Fear of failure is closely connected with the apprehension of failure in any field of life, such as career, business, education of private life

Entrepreneurs build ladders, employees climb them.

Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk tomorrow's senior partner.

I didn't know anybody in show business, and I never thought it was the path I'd go down. I was hoping it was sports, like so many kids.

I always wanted to be a medical doctor, and I never thought of business.

I just always dreamed of racing cars, but I didn't think I could do it as a living.

When the War ended in 1945, I started selling vacuum cleaners door to door. Then I sold insurance door to door. I even tried selling cars.

I left with nothing and needing to begin a new career.

When I came into the league, once a team drafted you, they owned you forever. If they didn't like the clothes you wore, or the car you drove, they could blackball you.

I think I wanted to be on Top Gear from a fairly young age because I loved cars and I wanted to do something on telly because I loved TV. I know that I?m ridiculously lucky

When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.