Joe Lhota Quotes

I started my career in the private sector and then became U.S. attorney. I think I was a stronger U.S. attorney, and I frankly think I am a stronger Chair of the SEC, because of that experience.

I was in the White House for a year and a half. Up to that point, all my jobs had been very unglamorous.

I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things.

I had a 20-year, stellar government career.

Although there are countless tangents that a career in the building arts can take, it is nonetheless most unusual for a major architectural practice to emerge once a firm's principals are well into what is loosely called middle age.

Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?

I was the chief executive once, I've been there. My recommendation to anybody is don't go backwards.

I have spent half of my career at Milan.

As you know, I spent 30 years of my life in the private sector.

I've had some great examples in my career of how to do things the right way.

Don't ask me about my career - I've forgotten most of it.

My whole journey and career has been really interesting, but the one element it never really had was any sense of great momentum.

I sacrificed six years in L.A. I did my job out here. I made contacts and did the work I had to do.

I can't complain about my career, that's for sure.

I got the first job and kept going. Once I got a job, I very much wanted to keep getting jobs, basically. I did try to learn what I could in those first couple of decades.

I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing.

Whatever it is you want to do, take a job in that field. You will learn by experience and, slow and steady, you'll get it done!

My profession has helped me to grow up.

I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.

What I wanted more than anything was a long career.

I'm thrilled with how my career is evolving.

David Moyes was one who, at a certain crossroads in my career, he was there. And since then, I've kicked on. That's why he played such a big role in my career.

I think in the early part of my career, the roles were so disparate that it never gave anybody an opportunity to understand my essence and what I would be good at doing, as opposed to what I would not be good at doing, so these little moments of beautiful things that were happening to me were consistent, but very few and very far between.

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

Every job is different. I don't think that I've ever had that wonderful feeling when you've finished a job or where you feel like you've mastered it or sort of nailed it... You can never be satisfied. If you're satisfied, it's time to retire.