Jamie Zawinski Quotes

Obviously my career's important to me and I'm really, really passionate about trying to keep it.

I'm very career-minded.

I was never interested in 'Teen Beat' like roles. I just wanted to work.

I don't lobby where work is concerned. As long as I know I've got something coming up, I don't really worry. It's not that I'm not ambitious, but I don't have a drive to be hugely successful and be working all the time.

I'm still as enamored and turned on by work as I was when I was young.

Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.

I'm very career-driven, so my focus and my energy has been into that.

I've made a point of not being, say what I refer to as a 'careerist' about anything.

But when it comes to my career, my job, something that I love so much and something that I'm passionate about, I can't let anything get in the way of that.

I don't want to do only one film a year; I want to work more.

I wanted success. I was ambitious. I didn't leave United to see out my career picking up wages.

Having done what I've done at 24 years old, I'm not the kind of person who likes to be out of work.

As far as career goes, make sure you're in it for the right reasons - and make sure that the work itself is the most important thing.

Happiness is the secret ingredient for successful businesses. If you have a happy company it will be invincible.

That's why I like my job so much, because at the end of the day they're fruits of labor that you don't pick very easily. And I love that.

It hasn't yet materialized that I went into sports management, but I haven't ruled it out yet, either. I only half-jokingly remarked that I'd love to be the commissioner of the NFL. But as I recently told current Commissioner Roger Goodell, that job looked a lot more appealing when I was struggling with the Russians and the Iranians everyday.

Labor for a lot of people has a negative connotation. But not for me. I always want to be working.

Loyal employees in any company create loyal customers, who in turn create happy shareholders.

There are certain natures to whom work is nothing, the act of work everything.

It's more important that you be passionate about what you do all day than it is to be passionate about the product that is being sold.

I realized that it was great to have a job, but it didn't have anything remotely to do with what I was striving for, so why was I doing it?

I'm happiest when I'm working. If I'm not working, I feel like I'm wasting my time.

When a man says he wants to work, what he means is that he wants wages.

Well, you have to understand where we came from. We are not here because we decided 10 years ago that we were going to be x-size company, and, oh, yeah, Jackson would be a good headquarters. We work here in Mississippi because we started here, and we are certainly happy here. Those of us working out of Jackson intend to continue working out of Jackson.

I really enjoy acting, and whether it's TV or films, I feel lucky to be doing it at all. In the end, I'd love to do films, but I'm not going to work just to do work. I only want to do something that I feel right about.