Long-Term Career Quotes

When I first got started I had no idea my career would last as long as it did.

I hope my career will be long-term. It's not something I'm taking for granted, but we try to plan that way.

When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them... And here I am, still at it.

I've been working as an actor since I was 9 years old.

The reality of a long-term career is that there are ups and downs.

I've been doing this career for a really long time, but there was not a lot of reason, at the time when I wrote 'Fight Song,' to believe that I should keep going.

I want to have a career that lasts 60 years, not six.

I'm in my 10th generation of TV critic now.

I thought, 'Wow, if we could have a career that was five or six years long, that would be fantastic.' And, of course, never even thinking it would still be something I'd be doing in 45 years.

For one thing, there is no guarantee that I am even going to work again. I hope I will and will go on to have a long career.

I'm trying to cultivate a long-term career rather than get every job right this minute. That'd be putting too much pressure on myself. I'd go crazy if I thought like that.

I've been a musician for 52 years professionally. I do it because, for me, I love it.

I have been active as a writer and journalist for nearly forty years. But the number of great reporters I have run across in that time would make, as they say, a slim book. Without question, the top man on my list would be Tommy Thompson.

I remember my father telling me that just like Troy, he could get me in with the water department where he worked in New York. He talked about how he could get me on the job, and if I stayed 25 years, I could probably work my way up to be a supervisor and how it was a good union and all of the benefits and that I was going to make $20,000 in 50 years or whatever it was. He couldn't see that far.

I'm never going to retire.

Racing is been my profession since I was 19 years old.

The good thing about radio is that it's the kind of career that really is a career with longevity. It's something you can do as long as you want to do.

There are so many fashion shows during fashion week, and the fashion show has almost become theater. It's all about the wow factor. And it's easy to make a name when you're shocking people all the time. But when you just make really, really great clothes, it can be difficult to get press and build a brand. What you do when you pare things back and make something timeless, though, is build a foundation to have a longer career and a stronger clientele.

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. I'll share the formula I learned while forging my way forward as a full-time painter for forty-four years. The steps all break down to one simple sentence: Make art that connects with enough folks for you to earn a splendid living.

I had a career for 25 years in Australia before I ever came to the United States.

I've been very, very, very, very fortunate, and I'm very grateful for my career and that, at 60, I won an Emmy.

If you can sustain a career over 40 years in this business, you've gotta consider yourself lucky.

The idea [of A Period of Transition album] was to get a break from everything for a while because I've been doing it for so long. I started doing it when I was 12.

I was on morning TV for 10 years in Chicago.

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