Glenn Kelman Quotes

I'm not a businessman. I could pack it in, but I like work. I don't want to sound like Catherine Cookson, but I've worked since I was eight, with a paper round and in a fruit and veg shop.

Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.

I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.

If you think about it, I've never held a job in my life. I went from being an NFL player to a coach to a broadcaster. I haven't worked a day in my life.

I worked in 40 restaurants over a five-year period.

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.

After college I'd take up a job and I'd experience what it is to take up a job, rather than starting out on my own. I said let me just work for six months so that I know myself a little better.

I started working in London, and I've been free-lance ever since.

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.

If they don't go to law school, bright college graduates head to Wall Street precisely because they have no real plan for their careers.

I encourage others to choose a career they are passionate about and can do for the rest of their lives.

I've had my eyes opened to so many things. But still, all I really want to do is my truck job. It's like an ingrained, default setting.

Super blessed to be in the position I'm in. To be able to inspire people to do what I'm doing and choose a career path that doesn't involve going to school, or like following society.

Most people don't go back to trial work after being in management, but I couldn't do anything else.

People go to work at Wall Street firms to make a lot of money. They may not love what they are doing, but the punishing hours and travel are incredibly well-compensated. By contrast, the engineers at technology firms do believe that they can change how we all live.

I'm a blue-collar kid who went on to become a successful entrepreneur. I was the youngest CEO in the history of the New York Stock Exchange. Now I've served my country for six years in the House of Representatives.

I wouldn't want to change anything about my career.

I was lucky enough to find my passion early - in retail - and I have done well but, most importantly, loved doing it.

I've always had a proper job. I don't know anything else.

I don't know what kind of career I want to forge for myself. But I want it to be one where I love the work that I've done. And I like to think that I have good instincts.

I was an athlete in college, and Wall Street likes athletes because they're very competitive people that are willing to do anything to win. So I got a job at Bear Stearns in the summer of 2007.

I guess I've never really wanted to be anything else. I've never even thought about having another job.

I couldn't really justify playing for money, and I think what I wanted to achieve put me at too great a risk, so I just decided on another profession.

When I reflect on my career I have no regrets.

I told my mom for years that I wanted to be a manicurist, and she'd always be like, 'But what if you went to college and you got a degree?' She'd try to explain how I could actually do a thing that would make me a ton of money, or that I didn't have to just pick the business that was closest to our house.