John Carmack Quotes

I want a new contract. I'm happy at United and I see my future here.

The Phillies liked the work I had done with the Cubs, and really wanted me there. They were on the phone as soon as my contract was up in Chicago, and it was just a great feeling to be wanted, to be appreciated for the work you do.

I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air.

I wanted to be a columnist so badly that I took a huge pay cut to leave Forbes, which wouldn't give me a column, and join Newsday, which wanted my column for its Sunday business section.

If you're making money, and you've hit your targets for five years, you don't need to demand a new contract.

Well, I called him and I said, Mr. Wright, what can I do? Universal offered me a contract $300 a week. He says take it. You'll never get that money from me.

So, I'm happy to do that because it's a wonderful working relationship but I will be going out for pilot season for half hour work and that's the gamble I'm taking.

Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along.

Better degrees don't automatically translate into better skills and better jobs and better lives.

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

You would think that when someone accepts a position with a company, they would assume that their life will be better off because they have that job rather than a different one.

I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.

I don't care where I have to go for work. I just care that it's a good project. That's what I want.

Whatever title you want to lay on me is fine. I am still working; you know what I'm saying?

I'm trying to solidify a long-term career, because I have no other skills and no other abilities.

But the working I would always want to do.

I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.

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.

It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.

All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

I want to work, so I'm going where the work is.

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 think my mum wanted me to join the army or something, or become a surveyor - something with good career prospects.