Rudolph A. Marcus Quotes

In 1973, I was offered a professorship at the University of California, San Diego. Although I was certainly not unhappy at Nottingham, I had been there over twenty years from starting undergraduate studies to Professor of Applied Statistics and Econometrics, and I thought that a change of scene was worth considering.

I was working at the 'Evening Standard' when I heard that there was a job going as deputy literary editor on the 'New Statesman.' I remember thinking, 'That's perfect.' It was three days a week, and I had children, but I could make that work - so I applied for it and got it.

CBS was very generous in their offer to re-sign me. But I simply want to try something new.

Finally, I told them I'd drop out of the management program if they'd give me an entry-level job in the newsroom for union wages, about fifty dollars a week.

The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received.

I did something a lot of people will have to do in this economy if they want to eventually land their dream job. I turned down an offer to take a high-paying position in another field because it wouldn't fulfill me.

If I were going to stay in coaching, I would have stayed right there because I was totally happy.

I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.

I don't want to play fat cops for the rest of my life.

A rule of thumb: If the company you work for provides a product or service that's pretty much the same as what was offered last year and a few years before that, it might be time to start looking for something new.

In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.

I wanted to be a columnist so badly that I took a huge pay cut to leave Forbes, which wouldn't give me a column, and join Newsday, which wanted my column for its Sunday business section.

I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research university.

It was the best job I ever had. I just left because my whole team was leaving and the new guys were coming.

I'm definitely in a place where I'm looking for different than what I've done in the past, just so I can go to work and do something I haven't done before.

After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years.

Most of those people who saw themselves as literary types at university became bank managers.

I went to college, grad school. I got an M.B.A., had a really cush corporate job. But I was just bored stiff. I didn't fit that mold.

You can take my job any time you’re ready.

Well, any time they would like to take over this job, they can have it.

I had opportunities to stay on shows for long periods of time, and maybe financially that would have been good, but I feel good about trying to keep doing things that are a little bit different than what I've done.

The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.

I don't play for job security.

I hope Pinterest is my last job.

I had a great ten years at Fox, but it's also been fun being a free agent.