Tom Jones Quotes

In my early twenties, I got the basics covered. In retrospect, one of the great things about success is that I never really had to work in a factory full-time. So that's a blessing.

I worked in a factory for six months and was a firefighter in Cookeville for several years. They paid my tuition, and I got a lot of life experience during that time that helped me grow up.

For me personally, the way I've been trained, just through life experience - the harder something is, the harder you have to work for it, the more worthwhile it is, and you just have to know that going in.

There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in the best possible way.

I have six jobs.

In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made.

I hope that in 5 years from now I'll be working and doing what makes me happy. Whatever that may be.

My career has had a lot of ups and downs, but basically it has been wonderful.

At the beginning it wasn't to do with the work, it was more the experience.

My career has been my craziest adventure.

No, my profile has leaped over recent years, so has my life experience, and I look forward to the next 30 years being even more rewarding and satisfying than the previous 60!

No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.

My career has been successful, but it's been a grind of hard work.

Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'

It's been a long career, and I've made some mistakes along the way.

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

I feel like I still am struggling in a lot of different ways. I still have to fight for certain things. Certain jobs. At least I'm working and I'm thankful for that.

If I had been at a University I don't think I would have been able to have the experience I had in my Smithsonian work. I don't think I have been as successful.

One has to look at my life story to see what I've done. I've paid a heavy price that many people don't realize.

The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.

We are getting an education of a lifetime. We're actually out there in the real world.

I did a bunch of blue-collar jobs, because I knew I'd wind up with a white-collar job at some point, and I wanted to, I don't know, I just wanted to taste life. I dug graves for a while, I worked as a stock boy in a big department store, I worked in a bank.

I think it's important to be able to say that you did live a normal life and struggled to make ends meet. It all has to do with work ethic and how I apply myself to my awesome job now. I've always been used to working because I've been working since I was four.

My parents instilled in me that life was going to be very difficult and that I'd have to work for everything.

I have to work hard. I'm not naturally great at anything. I have to work really, really hard.