Diego Klattenhoff Quotes

Fortunately, now I've got myself in a position where things are about story and not money. In my earlier career, it was more about getting my foot in the door and to get enough money to live, to be perfectly honest.

I love making money, but you can't live your life waiting to get rich in a job that no longer feeds you artistically.

I did a bunch of blue-collar jobs, because I knew I'd wind up with a white-collar job at some point, and I wanted to, I don't know, I just wanted to taste life. I dug graves for a while, I worked as a stock boy in a big department store, I worked in a bank.

Every job that you have might not be the perfect job, but you really take away different things, and you create relationships.

Take any job in a growing, exciting company. You'll learn so much.

I've been very lucky in the characters I've chosen. Up until last year I was a nobody. I did jobs I booked because I needed to put food in my mouth.

I loved playing and I was actually working two jobs.

I know a lot of people at some point in their business careers decide they'll just cash in and do something else, but for some reason, I've never had that feeling.

I got the first job and kept going. Once I got a job, I very much wanted to keep getting jobs, basically. I did try to learn what I could in those first couple of decades.

Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.

I feel that working now is the way for me to learn things, whether it's languages or another activity.

There's a part of me that wants to be known and make a comfortable living but still be able to go grocery shopping. My overall idea of success is having people I want to work with want to work with me.

I'm thrilled with how my career is evolving.

I make a good living doing what I do.

I would leave the industry in a moment if I thought I was going to get stuck in one particular area of it.

I love my job, but it's more than that: I need it.

I'm happier in my career now than I've ever been.

I was inspired to do anything I could to get out of what I was doing... today, I'm motivated to pay the bills.

Fresh out of college, you tend to join a company because it's a job. But, you tend to stay because it becomes a career; you start to feel at home. In the beginning of your career, you're focused on you: 'I like this place because I'm doing rewarding work; they take good care of me; the people are nice; there's runway for me,' etc.

I just want to work, and learn from people I respect and admire.

It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.

It changed my life in a lot of ways - before I got that role I was just going from job to job, not really having enough money to be able to do what I wanted to do.

Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?

I feel as though my criteria are based more on how challenging the role is, it doesn't have to fit into any particular profile, is it something that I've never done before, and is it something that I feel like I can really feel challenged and therefore fully engaged in, and that's when the work gets to be the most fun.

If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker.