Bruce McCulloch Quotes

Television isn't my career. Business is.

In school, you get a limited view of the world. Start working. Find your passion. Take your time doing that. Once you've found what you're passionate about, then lock down. Even if you want to start a business, it's helpful to work, see how other businesses are run.

I thought I would attend school and get an assistant position and work my way up but being in NY and seeing the pace of everything, is very inspiring.

I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.

I had no intention of being a film producer, and I knew I wasn't passionate about engineering. I was always set on having my own business, controlling my own destiny.

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

This is a tough business for anyone, especially if you start out young. I feel really lucky about the way things have turned out.

Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.

I was voted least likely to manage a business when I was at Dickinson College.

I never went to college to make money.

I have always worked to start.

I started working at age thirteen. I'm a product of public schools, I'm a product of a public university. I started my first company when I was 21. I've subsequently never worked for anybody else. I started that first business when I was still in college.

I think when you come from a small college like I did, then you have to use every opportunity available to you.

I work with kids every day, and I preach to them how much more they make and how much easier it is to get a job when they get a college education.

I had that hunger to work and keep growing. So I started to cut hair. When I started getting better, I got my own barbershop. I had a lot of clients in my hometown, so I wouldn't stop cutting hair. That's why I think I have such discipline in my job because I've always been very responsible.

The day I graduated, I skipped the ceremony to go straight to California for the dot-com boom.

My career has taken so many directions.

I know that if I had got educated, I might have ended up as a call-center employee.

I must say I have turned down several great companies, so I'd probably say I have to keep learning.

I look to gain experience wherever I play.

I wasn't good at the sciences; I wasn't a good enough athlete. The only thing I could do was mow lawns. So I thought that writing or teaching was what I wanted to do.

You take the job, you learn from it, and you move on.

Right now, at the age of 22, I'm making a living off of this and I'm building, not only just my brand, but I'm also building myself bell-to-bell. I'm building myself when that red light's on and I want to keep doing it.

In my late teens and early 20s, I worked hard on my roles, but, to be honest, I didn't feel any special commitment to acting.

Jim Newman, the business visionary who created the term 'comfort zone,' showed me how to expand my horizons. Thanks to Jim, after I attended one of his PACE Seminars in 1978; I moved out of my comfort zone at Bear Stearns and became a super successful oilman.