Nolan Bushnell Quotes

Before finding a mentor, I feel it's essential to really find your own calling and passion. From my experience, this will become a guiding bond in this kind of relationship. Be curious and engaged - and push yourself actively. Be as good as you can at what you love to do, and you will certainly get a mentor's attention.

To keep the edge, you just keep doing something new. I'm not gonna say that working is easy, but while I'm doing it, I'm just a happy little moron - that's how my girlfriend describes me. The fact that nothing might happen with those things is not the point. The point is, I'm doing new things, and I have a good feeling in my soul.

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

I guess I'm just an open-hearted, fair, good person. I try to encourage people to be their best and look inside themselves and find out what they are passionate about and expand on that and enjoy life.

And the reason I came to IBM was I think - I always say at a really early age, I learned you've got to be passionate about what you do. No matter what it is, you put too much, your heart and soul in it, you have to be passionate about it. You make too many sacrifices.

Now I don't work for the money or the glory. I just work because I like building businesses.

I had a very good job in corporate America, but I quickly knew that was not how I was wired.

Someone once told me be interested, not interesting - that really clicked for me.

I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me.

I like to make decisions based on things I'm interested in doing, not what seems like the next move in my quote-unquote career.

I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me awake and interested, an eternal student.

Not everyone has to be a model and a designer, there are so many other options that are great and long-lasting. It's just finding what you're good at and being honest with yourself.

I'm a forthright person and I am ambitious and I do hope that I get to do more, interesting work but not at the expense of me not being who I am.

The single most important key to success is to be a good listener.

I love what I do. I love to learn.

Think about what you're passionate about. I did not learn something early enough: if I could go back, I'd tell the younger me that there's a big difference between loving to work and loving the work.

Baseball is my job, and I love it, but it can't be the only thing I've got going on.

Don't manage your career. Follow your dream and contribute.

You get better at the thing you do by having to explain it to someone else. That, I think, totally makes my work stronger.

Sometimes it's good to remember who you are outside of work.

It is so important to remember that, while I love my job, there are other fantastic avenues to explore in my life.

I love what I do, and when I don't love what I do, I'll make a change...I can't be the candy queen forever.

The offers are plenty. I'm just taking time and only working on those projects that excite me.

I needed to focus on what is good for my career long-term and when you decide to do something - you stay true to yourself.