Sue Bird Quotes

I hope my career will be long-term. It's not something I'm taking for granted, but we try to plan that way.

I think everyone starts in the mailroom at some point! It's a right of passage. Your boss has to throw something at you and order you around for at least two years.

I don't want to just be fully rapping my whole life.

I am hoping for a long career.

If I wasn't modelling, I'd probably be an intern somewhere, working for someone who interned the year before me.

A career is a journey. I've been fortunate enough to work and be very successful over three decades, but I haven't achieved nearly what I want to achieve yet.

You grow and learn a lot about the industry and what happens behind closed doors over the years.

I'd like to think that every job and every step I've taken progressed more and more toward the career that I've wanted to have.

I'm 25 years old; I've had a good career, and the best is yet to come. I want to fight for the next 10 years, which will be better than my first 10 years.

That comes with any position, you play it more and more and you get comfortable.

And I always was getting fired and quitting jobs, so I was not going to ruin Public Storage, and I was excited about Public Storage because I knew eventually I could be one of those property manager people that had their own apartment on site. So I had these big dreams for Public Storage.

I've sort of overlapped every job that I've done, really.

Ever since I started all of this TV weirdness, I just tried to make each year better than before professionally.

I spent 15 years at IBM, then five years at Freescale Semiconductor.

When I first entered this business, I said, 'Well, this will be good to stay in for 10 years or so; then I'll start a family.' Then 10 years came, and I thought, 'I'm just hitting my stride. There's no way I'm leaving.'

I'm sure I'm going to have a long and successful career.

I want to concentrate on my career and would like to scale greater heights.

Being a part of 'Empire' was a wonderful experience and opportunity to work with everyone involved.

Before I was attacked, I would write about the future - just goals, lists and plans. I'd scribble without depth or substance about the things I wanted to do with my life, whether short or long-term, and how I thought my future would be: a successful career in TV and modelling, marriage, a family.

I assisted Bobby Houghton at Halmstads, and we were both just under 30. We'd say, 'Wouldn't it be great to do this for maybe 10 years, save a little money, then perhaps start a little business together.' Some sort of travel agency. We had no football thoughts beyond that, other than maybe combining it with a bit of sport, getting a few tours going.

I know where I want to get to, and I know where I want to be still in my career.

I want to go higher in my career. This is not my best. My best is yet to come.

I want to improve more, and maybe when I am older, I can do more endorsements.

I've been a paperboy, a short-order cook, a warehouse clerk, and, eventually, a partner at IBM.

If my ambition was to stay a manager the rest of my life, then I'd probably follow what people think managers are supposed to be like, but my ambition was never to be a manager.