Ozzie Guillen Quotes

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

Why would you want to stay manager and be second-guessed by me when you can come up into the front-office and be one of the second-guessers?

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

In my early career, I look at that time as a series of trial and error and learning as I go.

I think your personal evolution runs hand in hand with your professional evolution. Performance and the person you are kind of grow simultaneously.

I was happy that I finally could play a mature woman, because I started working when I was a teenager and was always playing characters according to my age.

I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.

Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.

Once I hit 25, I realized I had to do more than just be an actor. I love acting, but there's something that makes it difficult to just be a man, a grownup. Not to take away from any actors, but I knew I wasn't going to be Tom Cruise. I knew I was a character actor, which is great and I'm proud of it. But I knew that I wanted to do more. I started producing and directing and writing and stuff for the theater, and then that grew out of hand and I sort of lost my control. I've always loved the process of filmmaking. Now I'm much more into producing docs, but I want to direct features.

My career has kind of taken on a life of its own.

Up or out" greatly magnified the careerist emphasis on holding a position rather than doing a job.

Your company should act as a springboard for ambitious employees, not a set of shackles.

I never planned my career in steps. It's all coming at me like burglars in the night.

Make friends. Be a leader. Kiss butts if you have to, but if the other guys despise you-you know what I mean?

He looks like a greyhound, but he runs like a bus.

I learned a lot about the business side of the industry and some new production tools. It's getting more and more difficult, because of my exploding gig schedule.

Being prepared for a job is a good idea for the short term, but it is not enough for the long term.

You have to stand out if you want to move up.

With every job you get more comfortable, you do better, you're more confident.

The nature of the business is that, once you start proving yourself and the more roles you get, the more exciting the roles that you're able to go out and do auditions for, or that you're being offered, get. You have more choices.

In your career you have a lot of good moments and bad ones. The important thing is to have enough motivation to keep working all the days with humility and trying to be a better player than before. I am going to try to continue doing this.

Every job I took was really me getting paid to learn about a new industry.

The best knowledge workers are working for more than money.

I worked for Harper’s Bazaar. They fired me. I recommend that you all get fired; it’s a great learning experience.

20 years ago, I was pushed and mentored and given challenging assignments and then supported. That allowed me to have the career path I've had.