Scott Weiss Quotes

If you're early on in your career and they give you a choice between a great mentor or higher pay, take the mentor every time. It's not even close. And don't even think about leaving that mentor until your learning curve peaks.

When I look out from my own business career, I tried to learn from some of the best people, regardless of the industry.

Collaborate with people you can learn from

When I first started out in the entertainment business, I made a list of people I thought it would be good to meet. Not people who could give me a job or a deal, but people who could shake me up, teach me something, challenge my ideas about myself and the world.

I love to work with people and do what I love.

The ultimate dream in life is to be able to do what you love and learn something from it.

I needed to take a break from performing, and from the Peas, to be happy. I craved female time, and time with my husband to feed my soul. My life now is about being balanced. I'm passionate about work and working out, seeing friends and family, and letting my hair down once in a while.

My advice to an aspiring actor would be to never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy, ever, if you want something, you have to work for it. By working for it I mean work on your craft, learn from people who have something to teach. It's just like anything else, practice makes perfect.

The thing is, I wasn't surrounded by lots of people who were helping me build a career.

I believe we can accelerate our acumen, performance and success by leveraging our associations and spending time with people better than us.

It shouldn't just be about money. It should be about loving what you do.

I have experienced a tremendous amount of personal and professional growth, and I feel incredibly lucky that I'm able to make a career out of doing the things that I love.

Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.

Balance is key: I need to be successful in my career to feel fulfilled, be surrounded by people I care about to share it with, and have my health to be able to do the things I love to do!

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

To me, my business is my life.

The best part of my carreer is getting to meet so many different people, because I learn so much from everyone.

I don't plan in terms of career ambitions. The only career ambition I have is to work with people who are going to bring you up and elevate your performance. They'll let you know things that you didn't know already and bring you places that you might not have gotten to otherwise.

I'd never be where I am if more successful writers hadn't taken an interest in me and done me a good turn - be it chiming in with constructive criticism or giving me sound advice about my career plan.

It's great when people appreciate your work, but I don't know how seriously to take it. The amazing thing is that I found something so early that I can support myself doing, and that can even be extremely lucrative, but I love it either way.

Work? I never worked a day in my life. I always loved what I was doing, had a passion for it.

It's very important to surround yourself with people you can learn from.

There's no pleasure in working if you don't do the things you want to do.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.