Don Nickles Quotes

I would like to go back to the private sector at some point.

I expect my next job to be outside government.

I actually had a number of different careers. I worked on Wall Street; I was a Master's in Business. I left that to work in the public sector.

We make a lot of fun at President Clinton's expense. But this transition is going to be tough because it's been 25 years since this guy has gotten laid in the private sector.

By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company.

Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.

Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it?

I wouldn't trade the best days of my life in the private sector for the worst days of my life in the public sector.

Without 'Countdown,' I'd probably still be a data analyst in London.

When I came back to Hong Kong in 1992, I decided to pursue a new career challenge.

I believe in career cycles and when one is close to ending you start to plan things. It's the moment for a change.

I worked in a record store, but I realised I didn't want that. I still wanted to pursue a career - or a life - that my songs provided for me.

Nobody should be anything, but because I once had a different profession and I'm interested in writing, I took it upon me.

Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, 'No way.'

I don't see myself doing catalog shoots in Madrid anymore like I was doing two years ago. I hope that the acting side of things grows.

Marcel, no more painting; go get a job.

I am now a member of the private sector. I'm happy. I've got a little foundation. You never say never, but I may have had my last race and that was the Presidential race. I think that you only get one shot.

Now I am ready to set new goals and start a new career for myself outside of the ring.

I left advertising as fast as I could in 1961. And I haven't ever thought about going back.

Death is very often referred to as a good career move.

Out of grad school, I worked as a tech writer for a while before going into computer coding for a living.

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

Everyone I know who used to be in the intelligence community is moving into the corporate world.

The public sector can serve as a catalyst for changing attitudes in the private sector.

[In 1970:] I don't expect to spend the rest of my life in this business. I damn near did.