Job Tenure Quotes

I've spent over half my life at NBC. This is the only place I have ever worked.

I joined Walt Disney, went to work, December 2nd 1935, so obviously, I'm not too young!

I had a job at a movie theater for like a year and a half and then a job at a health food store for, like, two years. Those were the only two jobs I ever had.

Law Number XXIX: Executives who do not produce successful results hold on to their jobs only about five years. Those who produce effective results hang on about half a decade.

Once you're finally in a place at Saturday Night Live that you're really comfortable, that's when you should probably be leaving, unfortunately. I think most people stay two or three years longer than they should, because it's very simple, the vacations are great, and you get good at what you do. It's like any job, you're like, "Oh, I know how to do this." You know it's a temporary thing, but it's easy not to walk away from. You find yourself going, "I'll leave next year, or I'll leave the year after." But it's a job you probably shouldn't be at for longer than five years, to be honest.

I could never hold a job for more than three months, which works out well because that's how long a movie shoots.

As an employee, you can't work for someone forever.

You can have a good run for several years with one company and then be able to extend it with another.

But we made a decision based on the fact that we have been up there a long time and that we feel that the seniority is important to the people of Louisiana.

I've outlasted many marriages at Random House.

My average duration in a job is more like six months, because I've done crisis and turnaround stuff for two decades. I've been in a lot of companies and not-for-profits and institutions that were really on fire; in a lot of ways, the Senate is the least urgent, least serious institution I've ever worked in.

I've been with the paper for almost 30 years.

At the bare minimum, you need to be in your position for a year before you ask for a raise or title change.

We believe that two people who have worked together for more than 10 years and been in the company for more than 15 years would be able to work very well as a team.

I spent 15 years at IBM, then five years at Freescale Semiconductor.

Here's what my CV usually does not say: I was trained as a teacher. My first job lasted less than 60 days. I was an assistant professor at a good college at Delhi University, but I found it very political, very suffocating. At the age of 23, you're not very tolerant of those things.

The average American has 11 jobs in their lifetime, and I've only had one.

The places I've worked in the past, I always stayed three years and moved on.

It's been 35 years since I left school. Almost nine of them were in government; all the rest were in the private sector. And I've proven over time to be a great leader.

I was with Mass Appeal solely for almost two years.

You can stay too long in a job, that's for sure. But by the same token, in the 12 years I have been CEO of GE, there have been four CEOs of Toshiba. So there's too short a time to do it, and there's too long a time to do it.

I have spent half of my career at Milan.

I left the White House in 2007. You know, I knew when I went there that it would be for a limited period of time. I was grateful that the average tenure of a white house senior aide is 18 to 20 months. I was there for nearly seven years.

I'm just not very good at holding on to jobs.

It wasn't that I ever knew I'd be at the Met for 20 years, or 30 years, or 40 years, or anything like that.