Josh Schwartz Quotes

I always knew I wanted to have a good career, so I made it happen.

If I'm enjoying something, I'd like to be able to just have it all. Frankly, that's the way I'm approaching my career now. I'm a total workaholic.

When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.

Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.

It's important to put all I have into my career.

One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.

This is my work ethic: I do not want to raise my future kids where I was raised, and I know the only way to do it is working, working, working, working, working.

I'm working hard since the beginning of my career.

I'm very much focused on my career.

I always hustled to make money and pay for school. I was never afraid of hard work.

When you're a young actor, and you're really fighting to have your place in the world - for me, anyway - it took a mental focus and energy and striving. It took a long time. And it was my whole life.

I do want to be a manager one day. It might be 10 years, I don't know when.

I don't mean this to sound cliche, but it's really about the work for me. I like to keep working on things.

I had to work and it never occurred to me not to. But then it's never really been about the money.

I certainly like working harder than a lot of my peers. The trick is embracing it.

I had a pretty good career at home. What keeps you going is not having a plan B. It's a very good thing. I think if I had a viable plan B, I might not have kept going.

I'm very career-driven, so my focus and my energy has been into that.

I think I started to have thoughts to really want to be serious about my work when I was about twenty-five, and I just kind of started to look into that direction and moved into it.

You'll sacrifice a lot of things in the early part of your career to be successful, but to be ahead of your competitors, you have to work hard.

When you start so young working, you build a hunger for acting, working, and a busy life.

You've got to want it. I can give you a role. I can't give you a career.

For my future growth, I'm going to keep working. I'm going to put everything I have in it, and I think everybody knows that that's just the type of person I am.

Everybody makes a decision about where they want their career to go. If I really want something, I put a lot of effort into it. If I don't want something, I won't.

I'm very career-driven.

No one's going to put in the effort you are for your career.