Michael Zaslow Quotes

The average person has eight different jobs over the course of their lifetime. You get a little antsy doing the same thing.

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.

Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.

Denzel Washington, Sidney Poitier, Robert Redford, Tom Cruise: those guys have well-planned careers. I'm just on a journey. Wherever I run across a job, I say, 'Okay, I'll do that.'

The longer you're stuck in a position that doesn't truly challenge you, the less likely you'll be able to leave it. Inertia, in fact, is one of my worst fears.

I don't want to get pigeonholed.

When you first start out, you are just happy to get a job, any job. And as time goes on, either you move forward or screech to a halt.

I don't think you really have to retire from what you do.

I tried to make a distinct point that I wasn't retiring - that I was moving on.

Even the coolest jobs get stultifying with repetition, and the only way to break that cycle is to bring another job into the mix.

Ultimately, I want a career where I get to try as many things out as I can.

I've done everything that there is to do in this business.

I do not think my career is over after being at Real Madrid.

There's no reason why anyone's job should become untouchable for the rest of their life.

I have an interest in everything, but I don't have an interest in starting new careers.

I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.

I'd go anywhere to work, so long as it's worth it.

I really moved through my career based on curiosity about something. I never looked at a title and said, 'I want that.'

I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I'm doing something wrong.

I'm happy with my career and I'm not going to have the trouble of being typecast.

My career has been my craziest adventure.

Nobody asked you to flip burgers for the rest of your life.

I view my career like a rubber-band ball in that every role is a new experience building toward something bigger.

If I could really move my career much more into predominantly directing, I would jump at that.

I've kind of looked at my whole career as a spring training invite.