Bob Goff Quotes

I want to be around for a long time. I don't want to be a one-hit wonder.

I want to be around when I'm 60; I don't want to be some flash in the pan.

I don't want to be the next hottest thing, I want longevity.

But I think it's important that things endure.

I want to work for a long, long time and keep growing in my work, and if I am very lucky and very blessed, maybe somewhere along the line there will be one movie in there that becomes a classic.

What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct things that will have enduring qualities, and won't just be ephemeral flashes in the pan.

I am now playing for 100 years hence.

The stuff that's good is the stuff that lives on.

I wasn't about one season, but career and longevity.

Some guys have one good year and fade away. I've worked too hard to get here and it's took me too long to just fade away.

I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.

The pain goes away, but your work always remains.

My particular worries on any given day - how I'm doing in the polls or what somebody is saying about me... for good or for ill - isn't particularly relevant. What is relevant is: What am I building that lasts?

What makes greatness is starting something that lives after you.

Do what lasts, get around to everything else.

Nothing ever goes away.

It just proves that I've been here for a long time and, I guess, have done the right things over the years.

You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.

In the entertainment business, the biggest gift you could ever get is not an Oscar, it's not a Grammy, it's longevity.

The accolades, just like the scrapes and bruises, fade in the end, and all you're left with is your ambition.

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

I just want to complete my legacy.

Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don't quit until you reach it. Never quit.

To be somebody you must last.

If what you create does not outlive you, then you have failed.