Jerry Yang Quotes

Every job is a blessing. Everyone has to take into account what is available. Are you paying rent, who do you get to work with? There are a lot of variables in the job. What I'm drawn to is things that I don't completely understand maybe, and want to get a better feel for it.

I think people tend to apply where they think the greatest opportunities lie.

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

I don't love being an actor, but I'm not qualified to be anything else. I was an auto mechanic and drove a tow truck and tried to go to school to be a paramedic.

When I started with 'Cocktail,' I was trying to figure out if this was something I wanted to do.

I don't know if I'm going to be a manager forever. I don't know if I'm going to be producing films or television shows.

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 was a little hesitant at taking the job at Atari. I had never programmed for a living and I worried it might get boring (building circuits seemed more fun). But I would probably still be in the video game business.

When I left college I thought - based on a staggeringly inadequate understanding of how the world worked - that I might like to go into book publishing.

My agents do not like my choice to work only in New York and Israel - it's not a good career move.

Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.

I don't think I'm going to change jobs at this point.

I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn't satisfying me 100%.

I know I'll always work. In what form, it really doesn't matter.

I'm trying to solidify a long-term career, because I have no other skills and no other abilities.

We're all on a journey. The average American switches professions four times. I'm lucky to be in a business where I can change the character I am playing every couple of months.

It always irritated me that people think they have to be locked into a career path.

I have never been interested in specific roles.

My only advice is to try to get the job that's most like the job you want, rather than the one that's more prestigious. Always try to be the talent.

I used to think that I wanted to be a hat maker, but I don't think that would have worked out.

I did some good stuff over in the U.K., but I wasn't consistently working. For a while there, I was going, 'Do I really want to do this - should I go back to university?'

I was almost ready to call it quits - sick of doing a job and then being back on the unemployment line and trying to make ends meet. But I loved acting and didn't know what else to do.

I don't necessarily think that when I graduated college, I had a plan to work at an ad agency. I had a plan in terms of getting the best job I could, like, just whatever normal job.

I'm not sure what I want to do - business, law, something else.

I've no idea if I want to do this for the rest of my life, so I want to try and work with the best people I can.