Michael Hogan Quotes

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.

It has been most rewarding to work in St. Louis, California, and New York and watch the people there grow and be promoted and go off to other opportunities and positions of responsibility.

There are a lot of things you can do with a law degree background, but I just didn't have a passion for it.

There are a lot of new opportunities that are poking their head up in my future. I've been very fortunate that way, but for right now, what I like is what I'm doing.

'One Tree Hill' was a great learning opportunity for me, and I'm excited to go and apply that elsewhere and see where I end up.

I want to try as many different roles as I can. I want to do everything.

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

I'm excited about developing as a Diva and finding where my place is in this company.

I always found new challenges in my career.

When work starts feeling too comfortable, fire yourself; go get another job.

Be willing to take on career risks.

I think I did experimental roles too early in my career.

Each of my career decisions has been very much about doing what I wanted to achieve in the role and then finding another challenge.

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

Careers very rarely are a waste of time; jobs usually are.

The time to realize that you need to transition out of your job is when you know that you've grown out of the role that you were doing before.

I still take way more jobs than I turn down, and the reason that I turn down a job is that I just can't find anything in it that charges me or excites me or challenges me about moving to the next phase of where I'm headed.

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

Work changes over time, as you change and the world changes.

I tell people in their careers, 'Look for growth. Look for the teams that are growing quickly. Look for the companies that are doing well. Look for a place where you feel that you can have a lot of impact.'

Luckily, I'm doing other things besides just modeling, because frankly, I'm a little bored with it.

It took a long time to get to the place in my career where I could pick and choose what I wanted to do.

But the working I would always want to do.

If you knew the upward mobility that South Dakota's kids have gotten from the opportunity to intern and to work and to be employed and to have upward mobility in that company and move on, it's been phenomenal for South Dakota.

Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.