Rosabeth Moss Kanter Quotes

Both of my parents had a change of career. My mum was a nurse, and now she's a college lecturer.

'Tyrannosaur's an arrival for me, but it's also the first step into a new career. I don't want to be moonlighting at this, like I have done with acting. Y'know, I think I've found my career at 37 years old.

After 30 years of television, I want to play more than I used to.

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.

I don't know if I want to be 65 or 67, still broadcasting games. But, why not? What else are you going to do?

Someone once asked me "If your life could be extended to 150 and you could start another career, would you?" And I said "No, thanks, I think I'll stick at this."

I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.

The competition is so fierce once you become an adult. I'll probably move on to something else.

There's no reason why I should retire.

I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer.

After three years in Chicago, I decided to call it a career.

As an actor, it's a very strange adjustment to start playing the father. I was used to playing a kid my whole life, and then all of a sudden, it's like, boom. I guess when I let my hair go grey, things changed.

When I turned fifty, I decided to quit the mill and go to graduate school.

I am now a member of the private sector. I'm happy. I've got a little foundation. You never say never, but I may have had my last race and that was the Presidential race. I think that you only get one shot.

For 30 years I've been responsible for managing client money, and it's been a joy, but at some point I need to move on. Thirty years is enough.

Now I am ready to set new goals and start a new career for myself outside of the ring.

There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

I left with nothing and needing to begin a new career.

Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.

I understand that there's a certain energy in youth, no question, in terms of pursuing jobs. But there is wisdom in age. It's too bad that the two can't come together because I do think that people are dropped from what they're really good at too soon.

You spend ten years of your life being trained to do one thing, and you're being taught to think that it's the most serious thing that anyone could possibly do, and then suddenly you find yourself doing something that in some respects is the epitome of frivolity.

When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.

Yeah I grew up in the public eye. I became a man in the public eye, which is kind of a bizarre thing to come to terms with. Now I'm in my late 20s and I was in my early 20s when I became recognizable. But I think 'Moneyball' represents a very strong shift in my career and becoming an adult and a man.

My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author.

You could have two completely different careers if you could stay healthy to 90. How fascinating that would be.