George Saunders Quotes

I just want a really varied career, and just to keep going, really.

I've done everything. I've been ring crew, I've been driver for a blind promoter, I've been a valet, I've been a referee, I've been a ring announcer, I've been a corporate officer, play-by-play man, blah, blah, blah. No one has been on my journey.

I don't think I have ever worked in my life, because work to me means that you are really doing something that you don't like.

There's never been any game plan or thread through my career. It's just happened that I've ricocheted from one interesting character to another.

I went to college, grad school. I got an M.B.A., had a really cush corporate job. But I was just bored stiff. I didn't fit that mold.

My father, Kaneki, was a gifted research director of a chemical company, and his profession strongly influenced the path of my life.

For me, if I knew that I wanted to be a CEO and I set that final destination right up front, that helped me develop a career track.

I have faced challenges during the initial stages of my career, and I see Run Adam as filling a vacuum.

I had a very good friend who was two years older than I was, and she was in law school, and she said, 'It's a great thing to do when you have no idea what you want to do.' And she was right. I learned a lot, I practiced law for 10 years. I've never looked back once I stopped practicing law, but it was a really good experience.

There's not much that I haven't done in my life, but there's lots of things that I'd like to do better. The variety of my career has been the fun of it, and I can thank Canada for that.

I was never afraid of taking the wrong job because maybe it would hurt me. I was more interested in the experience.

I always have looked for the best challenge, I guess, that I could take on. I haven't been producing my own work or anything like that, so I've taken the jobs that look most interesting that come my way.

I don't play for job security.

When I was still a bright-eyed McKinsey consultant, I remember hitting a point where I didn't know what to do next, and someone gave me the book, 'How Remarkable Women Lead,' and I read it and scribbled in it, and it felt like a guide in helping me figure out my career.

Your post-college years should be an exploratory time in your professional life. From your early twenties and on into your early thirties, you should feel free to explore your professional prospects. Keep an open mind, and don't expect to get everything right straight out of the gate. Be prepared to start over once or twice.

Just because you started your careers in a certain role, let's say hardware engineering, does not mean you'll end your careers in hardware.

Careers are like roller coasters. You go up, you go down, and you spin yourself around.

I want to try as many different roles as I can. I want to do everything.

It's not like I wake up and think, 'Now I'm going to go to work.' It just feels like a continuing exploration.

I want to see my career evolve into limitlessness.

I got an opportunity to do varied roles so early in my career.

Broaden your work experience - either within your company or through your job progression in other companies.

My films are a reflection of the society I live in, what I see and observe.

I've had a lot of careers in my life. When I think about it, I think every piece of that - from being a nurse, a farmer, dealing with real estate - has added to a skill set that I would have been able to use throughout my political career.

Something I can't stress enough is the massive importance of work experience. It's the only way to find out what work is really like when you're figuring out what path to take and to get an understanding of what it takes to achieve your career ambitions.