Ben Zobrist Quotes

Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.

In the long run, it's probably better to tie yourself down to one position and really become established in one area to be as good as you can in that position.

At the bare minimum, you need to be in your position for a year before you ask for a raise or title change.

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

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 still feel I'm doing the same work I've always done.

I don't think I'm going to change jobs at this point.

People really do think they have to choose between high stress and high reward jobs, and low stress and low reward jobs.

I never thought I want to do anything, really, except not go to work properly and turn up at the same place every day and eat sandwiches in the same canteen, if I can possibly help it, as I don't think I'd be very good at it.

Let me put it this way: I don't plan to retire. What would I do, become a brain surgeon? I mean, a brain surgeon can retire and write novels, but a novelist can't retire and do brain surgery - or at least he better not.

If I don't work for a while, I don't work for a while.

The career isn't guaranteed for as long as you might want to play.

In America, people know there are always 10 people better than them who are after their job. In France, they know that too - but no one is going to get their job till they go to their grave.

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.

Sometimes I think, 'Oh, I wish I just had a nice job where you're getting a salary.' Just sometimes.

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.

Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.

Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.

I'm not qualified to do anything else. So there better be another job. I'm kind of stuck now. I'm enjoying my life and I'm enjoying my work, and I'm enjoying the fact that the work I'm doing is garnering some interest and that's great. I just hope that it continues.

A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it.

I won't give up my day job of design.

In most careers, you find something you do well, and you tie an increasingly larger bow on the package.

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.

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

I'd like to just work - steadily work - and do parts that I enjoy doing.