Sam Donaldson Quotes

Now I don't work for the money or the glory. I just work because I like building businesses.

I only am in this business because I enjoy it. I think that is the only way to be in the business.

If it doesn't feel like a job and I'm learning something and getting that rush that I get, I don't care if it's behind a camera, on a TV set, or on the moon.

I'm voraciously looking to express myself in my work. I love my work.

Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.

I believe that we have been doing this not primarily to achieve riches or even honour, but rather because we were interested in the work, enjoyed doing it and felt very strongly that it was worthwhile.

I've now returned to the business again because I finally realised that I really enjoy the creative process.

It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.

The one guiding principle over my 23-year career in TV has been as long as I'm having fun, I really don't care what the job title is.

It's all about trying to find those projects where you get to enjoy yourself, because I think that's when you create as well: when you're genuinely excited about something. Then you're not just doing it because it's your job.

If you do have something you love to do, the fun part of the job is no different than what was fun about doing it in high school for no money. I thought there would be some greater reward in succeeding.

As long as I can stay competitive and have fun doing what I'm doing, I guess I'll keep doing it.

Let work itself be the ambition.

The truth is, truly passionate media creators don't get into the media business to make huge gains from spectacular unicorn exits. When it happens, we certainly all cheer (and perhaps secretly hope it happens to us). But the fact is, we make media because we don't know what else to do with ourselves. It's how we're wired, so to speak.

I still take way more jobs than I turn down, and the reason that I turn down a job is that I just can't find anything in it that charges me or excites me or challenges me about moving to the next phase of where I'm headed.

Thank God, I have the opportunity to do what I love, which is my family and work on a business and try and make it the best that it can be.

My motivation has always been to do technology apps and companies, not making money. Just because the money's come, nothing's changed.

Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.

The way to stay inspired and motivated is by doing what you like, doing what you love.

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

I'm in this wonderful place of life, where everything I'm doing is something I do because I enjoy it.

For a rich and reasonably successful guy, it is impossible not to enjoy your job; otherwise, why would you spend so much time and effort doing it? I am a great fan of Norilsk, and I like this kind of challenge.

When you do something that you like, and you think you can keep doing it, you don't think about retiring.