Ruben Loftus-Cheek Quotes

I started out as a lawyer and came in laterally to Goldman Sachs. So I learned myself that life is unpredictable. That you really should, in terms of your career, try to be excellent at what you're doing. I think if you focus on your job, and you focus on being broad in the context of your job, the next jobs follow from that.

I was in the White House for a year and a half. Up to that point, all my jobs had been very unglamorous.

While I'm trying to be different, I'm trying to be very conservative at this point in my career.

Three-quarters of our sites - Kotaku, Gawker, Jezebel, Deadspin, Gizmodo, Lifehacker - are led by editors who built their careers within Gawker Media. That's the career path.

I can't complain about my career, that's for sure.

I got the first job and kept going. Once I got a job, I very much wanted to keep getting jobs, basically. I did try to learn what I could in those first couple of decades.

I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing.

I think it's been confusing for people because I haven't had a linear career.

What I wanted more than anything was a long career.

I'm thrilled with how my career is evolving.

David Moyes was one who, at a certain crossroads in my career, he was there. And since then, I've kicked on. That's why he played such a big role in my career.

All the time, as an actor, you want to be asking what's next and where things are going. If you're not asking those questions, you're not growing.

When you first start, you just want to get a job. It goes from that to really deciding what kind of work you want to do and what kind of actor you want to be - and it only gets harder.

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

I don't think anyone wants to be in a role forever.

I don't believe that there is any particular book that influenced any 'career' I might have.

Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?

When you want a raise, you're not only going in saying: 'I want more money.' You're going in and saying: 'Here's what I want out of my career. Here's what I accomplished. Here's what I said I was going to do. Here's what I've done. Not only do I deserve more money, but I want to get to here on my career.'

I just want a really varied career, and just to keep going, really.

People don't know this, but early in your career, you don't just glide on to The Tonight Show.

I don't want to be an action star, an action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

I was the chief executive once, I've been there. My recommendation to anybody is don't go backwards.

When I started working, I didn't have a clue what I was doing, in that I was just wandering around, hoping that I could succeed. Then after I got a little under my belt, it took me about 25 years to feel like I knew what I was doing.

There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.

I think for anybody, regardless of what industry you work in, when you get a new job, and it's progressive in terms of your career, that is one of the best feelings in the world.