Luke Wilson Quotes

Let's be honest - you work at a big company because it's comfortable. You don't have to work 80 hours per week, and you get paid, have nice benefits, and the family is all happy.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

I have worked all my life, wanted to work all my life, needed to work all my life.

The idea of having a steady job is appealing.

Both me and my parents wanted me to lead a normal life, work in a normal '10 to 5' job and put my education to good use.

In the last 17 years of his working life, my father was finally rewarded with having landed a great job as first, a maintenance engineer, and then a senior locksmith with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

If you put someone in a job who is thinking for even a moment about the next job, you have the wrong person.

From the beginning, I imagined I would have a long work life.

A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.

I am very fortunate having the job that I do and I want to do it for as long as possible.

Life is just a set of experiences. As long as there are new experiences for me in a corporate job, I don't think I have to be an entrepreneur.

Life is the same. It would be the same thing if I were still working at Starbucks, having to deal with a manager, and a shift manager. This is a job.

Go work at the post office or Starbucks if you want balance in your life.

I've never had a job in my life that I was better than. I was always just lucky to have a job. And every job I had was a steppingstone to my next job, and I never quit my job until I had my next job.

I am very fortunate to have a career. I always have to act. I don't know if I'll have a career to support it for the rest of my life, but I know I'll always act.

Working for the Man seemed really good to me.

I worked for Xerox for 4 years and after that I knew I was never going to be a corporate person. It wasn't my environment.

I was raised on, 'You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.'

Most people don't hold a job for 45 years. They pass on or want to retire. I don't want to retire. My real goal is to do 50 years on 'Sesame Street,' and I only got 4-and-a-half years to go.

I had this wonderful career and thought I would retire as a teacher.

I hope to goodness I would not still be working in the corporate world - the money is OK but it is no life at all.

My goal has always been longevity. Not fame and fortune, just get a job and keep it.

I went to college, grad school. I got an M.B.A., had a really cush corporate job. But I was just bored stiff. I didn't fit that mold.

I don't believe in careers. I believe in work. I'm not interested in some 'big picture that would be really good for me'.

For me, there is no greater sunshine in politics or in life than to have a job, security for your family, a good school place where you know your child is going, and the sense that if I put in, there will be a decent, secure retirement at the end of it all.