Michael Cerveris Quotes

We need to have a better balance between a deliberate strategy and staying open. Because in the end, most of us end up being successful in a career that we never imagined we would be in at the beginning.

I never planned my career. I never planned to be president of Harvard. People would have thought I was crazy, probably, at the age of 8 or 10 or 20, if I had said that. So what I would say to people planning their careers is to be ready to improvise. Be ready to follow up on opportunities as they unfold.

I might act like it's an accident but the opposite is true. I'm incredibly calculated when it comes to my career.

I don't really have foresight as an actor as far as career trajectory - I just stick to no-brainer situations.

Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.

I know a lot of actors have all these expectations and believe that one thing should lead to another thing, and that's probably the right way to build a career. I don't know what's wrong with me - I just don't think like that!

We, as individuals, must be responsible for our careers with the goal of reaching our highest potential. The job of a manager is to tap into that energy that's already there.

Have a goal. Know where you want to end up. Knowing where you want to end up is a lot easier than figuring out how to start and how to get there. You will figure out how to get there. Do not chart your career. Trust me; you do not want to chart your career.

You need to be strategic about how you define your leadership journey and where that takes you.

I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.

I've been very strategic in how I've approached the jobs I want to do.

I never had planned for my life and my career.

For me, if I knew that I wanted to be a CEO and I set that final destination right up front, that helped me develop a career track.

The older I get, the happier I am with the way my career has gone. Although, in many ways, it's been through no design of my own.

I have faced challenges during the initial stages of my career, and I see Run Adam as filling a vacuum.

My whole career has been completely random and haphazard.

The decisions that you make in your career stem out from the experiences you have early on in your career.

You'll be able to find many unemployed actors, you know? I've been gifted a wonderful career, and to now be able to find myself in a place where someone can look at the course I've charted and say, 'I can do that,' or 'I can do even better!' is a privileged position to be in.

I never planned on a career in music at all, so I should say I'm very lucky.

I have a very clear idea of what kind of career I want and the choices I need to make to get there.

I'd like to think that every job and every step I've taken progressed more and more toward the career that I've wanted to have.

I wasn't ready to manage straight away. You have a few players who stopped and managed a first team straight away and were successful, and then there are the other ones who take different pathways. And I think what was important for me was to understand what I really wanted to do.

Looking back, I believe that acting was the best that I could do. It just happened. I kept getting good offers, and the going has been good.

The running thread of my career has been different scripts.

I don't want to be one of those actors who sits and regrets her career choices later in life.