Allan Sloan Quotes

Finally, I told them I'd drop out of the management program if they'd give me an entry-level job in the newsroom for union wages, about fifty dollars a week.

I did something a lot of people will have to do in this economy if they want to eventually land their dream job. I turned down an offer to take a high-paying position in another field because it wouldn't fulfill me.

What I wanted more than anything was a long career.

I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.

I left the Middle West for Schenectady because the General Electric Company offered me a more congenial, better paying job than did anyone else.

I don't see my show as a stepping stone to something else like some people, who get a job then have a foot out the door looking for their next job.

I want to have a long career.

When you get your dream job, you'd be really hard-pressed to leave it. Unless you've got another dream job out there.

I hope Pinterest is my last job.

When it became clear that I wasn't going to have the opportunity to do any work on VR while at id software, I decided to not renew my contract.

I want a long and healthy career.

And after my interview with the Bengals, I knew this was the job for me.

You don't have to start with your dream job, and your idea of what the dream job might be will change during a working life that will have its share of ups and downs, setbacks and advances.

I could have continued being a speechwriter for as long as I wanted.

In my head, that climb up the career ladder just doesn't exist. I feel I've achieved everything I set out to achieve, as far as work goes.

I think anyone who has a job in the entertainment industry that is ongoing and then decides they get bored and doesn't want to do it anymore is foolish!

Don't make career choices on short-term financial gain. Job satisfaction and career enjoyment are far more important.

I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.

I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air.

Once a waitress, always a waitress.

I know a lot of people at some point in their business careers decide they'll just cash in and do something else, but for some reason, I've never had that feeling.

I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.

If I were going to stay in coaching, I would have stayed right there because I was totally happy.

Somewhere along the line, Bob said I'd better begin taking this business seriously, because, whether I liked it or not, I had a career.

I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.