Jason Bateman Quotes

If you want to sustain excellence over a long time, you'd better come up with a system that works well. Anyone can sprint for a little while, but you can't sprint for forty years.

In the entertainment business, the biggest gift you could ever get is not an Oscar, it's not a Grammy, it's longevity.

For me, it's not about quick grabs and quick sales; it's about having a sound that will last and sustain.

Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn't realize the two could go together.

Companies like GE and Procter & Gamble have been in business for a long time. Over decades or a century you're bound to figure out a management structure that works.

Many business leaders are seeing the relationship between long term success and sustainability, and that's very heartening.

We don't want to be hot; we want to last - because eventually hot gets cooled down.

I want longevity in this career.

Anybody can do something one time. You have a great year because everything goes right. But can you maintain it and sustain it for a long period of time as Coach Carroll did and Coach Saban?

You don't want to have a fast career for two years. You want to have an amazing career for 20 years.

Business is a marathon, and most of society thinks it's a sprint.

For some actors, their star shines brightly and fizzles out. My star doesn't shine that brightly, but it buzzes along. Hopefully, that means it will last longer.

I was built for the long run, not for the short dash, I guess.

This is our 40th year in business. We don't have a single penny from outside investors, and we never borrowed heavily from the banks. We have a healthy balance sheet and more credit than we can use.

You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.

I'm very happy to have a small, long, career instead of one big hit and then oblivion.

A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.

Focusing on the long term and building a great product that is scalable ultimately leads to a great company.

I want in 40 years to still be acting and to more than anything have longevity and not just be this huge flash in the pan and then disappear.

Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.

People always ask me how long somebody can last as long as I've been lasting and continue to keep doing it, so I figured that people didn't really know how to do that.

I'm not in any rush to get anywhere. There's a pressure on actors to get somewhere before it's over. But everyone wants longevity, don't they? It's a career. Why be that flash-in-the-pan, taking every job out of worry it'll soon be over?

Hype is wonderful when it happens, and you should capitalize on it. But you shouldn't bank on it being the thing that will take you to the next step. Because it's fleeting. The blah-blah-blah goes away, but you're still there.

I want to be in this business as long as this business will have me.

From the beginning... I wanted to build a company that could sustain not for two years or four years or even ten years but be something that really matters over time the way Amazon and Google and others have.