Bruce Nordstrom Quotes

I spent 26 years in the business without ever knowing what I was doing a month from now.

Most professional women I know - myself included - long since gave up looking for a rulebook or a roadmap; we make it up as we go along. Every day presents a new choice, a new challenge, which makes long-term career planning seem like an especially abstract exercise.

I admit, I'm suspicious of any career planning that involves chasing the next 'big thing,' just because it's so hard to predict what the next big thing is going to be a couple of years - or even six months - out.

I'm not sure if career can be planned.

Americans are so direct. They'd ask me, 'What's your five-year plan? Do you have a five-year plan?' I don't know what I'm having for my tea tonight let alone a five-year plan.

I used to worry about what would happen five or 10 years from now, but I don't anymore. I thought about going to medical school because that has always interested me, but decided against it.

I'm constantly thinking about what I'll do next. I never count on music being a career of longevity. I mean, longevity is key, and I hope that it lasts, but you just don't know, because it's not in your hands, you don't make the decision.

How do Ferrari know what I'm doing next year when I don't know what I'm doing next week?

The worst question is, 'Where do you see yourself in five years?' I don't know. Variety is the spice of life. That's the best way to describe it.

I never had a strategy about my life. I didn't have enough information to have a strategy. I'm the first person in my family to go to college. I had no family mentors.

My whole thing is I want to have a backup plan because maybe I won't get another acting job after 'Fame', maybe I'll want to give up on acting in five years or whatever and I want to have something else that I enjoy just as much as I enjoy acting.

I never had a plan. I have to say, I'm very shocked when people start a company and say, 'In five years I want to launch a perfume, or in 10 years I want to have this.' How can you know?

It's fascinating for us women to begin looking at our lives in five-year plans. It really does help you keep on track. If that's too hard, start with a two-year plan.

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

I am suspicious of career engineers, people that plan it out every step of the way.

I have a very clear idea of what kind of career I want and the choices I need to make to get there.

I always think about my future. That's part of my job.

Clearly define what success means for you. Set short-term and quarterly career goals with your manager that will help lead you to your long term goals.

I'm so jealous of people who in second grade knew what they wanted to do.

To be honest, I have no idea what happens after my career.

I find in my career that I never know what's going to happen in two months.

I often don't know what I'll be working on next year or a year from now. There is often a chance meeting, or something that I worked on 10 years ago suddenly becomes important again.

I can't take a view of the future of every player.

A career is forward planning.

I just wanted to set myself up for life, and that degree from Villanova, I thought, is very special.