William Jackson Quotes

I never really marketed myself, so each job I was given was a new marketing tool, and that would be the way I marketed myself.

I still feel I'm doing the same work I've always done.

I stayed at 'Cosmo' well beyond my internship, moving up the ranks over some 15 years to become books editor, then brand director, then editor-at-large - editing everything from an excerpt of Gore Vidal's memoir to writing some of those juicy cover lines myself.

I think it's really important to remember that it's a long life, and it's a long career. In a perfect world, your career will be long. It does not begin and end with any one job. The point is to continue to have longevity in your career.

Ultimately, I think it's just going to get you that exposure, get you in that door, get you that recognition that will hopefully get you opportunities.

I don't want to be stuck in the same spot, just dropping mixtapes for no reason.

When I first got started I had no idea my career would last as long as it did.

The most important thing is to recognize how important it is to market yourself and make connections.

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

I feel like I've grown up, not only at NBC, but also at 'Today.'

I'm not at the place in my career necessarily where I'm like offered every role.

Part of what's exciting to me about my career is the constant looking forward. Whenever I finish one project, I am looking to what's next.

Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities invaluable because you increase the odds of serendipitous encounters-you gain exposure to the envelope of serendipity.

Sometimes you have to do a role that might not be the most interesting, but it will set you up for doing roles that you want to do.

One of the by-products of being allowed to start my professional career prematurely is that the evolution of my work is really evident.

When I look out from my own business career, I tried to learn from some of the best people, regardless of the industry.

The things you want professionally are opportunities. And through my good fortune that's what's happened. Opportunity has come to me.

I think a lot of people try to plan things in their career. They feel like, If I don't get this done by the time I'm thirty, everything's over. But I've worked with a lot of people whose careers shot to the top later in life.

It's not always so great to be objectified, but I don't feel I have much of a choice right now. I'm young in my career. I know I have to strike when the iron is hot.

I don't really understand the concept of having a career, or what agents mean when they say they're building one for you. I just do things I think will be interesting and that have integrity. I hate those tacky, pointless, big, fluffy, unimportant movies.

I'm really enjoying learning new ideas because eventually I want to become a manager myself so I'm gathering all this information from managers now and previously.

You build a successful career, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job.

I did come to realize that getting your first job is hard, but it's not nearly as hard as getting your seventh job. That is hard. That's when you really have to prove it to people.

A job leads to a job, just like anything else, and it became apparent that this was probably what I was going to keep doing.

A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.