Deborah Meaden Quotes

In my experience, you get a job for a reason. Your work life happens for a reason.

I hope Pinterest is my last job.

The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.

I'm probably satisfied with my career 80 percent of the time.

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

My dream job has already happened.

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.

I always thought of my career as a body of work and not just about numbers.

My career has evolved at its own peculiar pace. American careers are supposed to have a much more singular direction than I've been able to... stomach.

What I want out of my career is just to work.

My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what I'm doing.

I think it's really important to remember that it's a long life, and it's a long career. In a perfect world, your career will be long. It does not begin and end with any one job. The point is to continue to have longevity in your career.

When you get your dream job, you'd be really hard-pressed to leave it. Unless you've got another dream job out there.

I'm interested in long careers where you take detours.

The running thread of my career has been different scripts.

I'm pretty happy with my career. I just know what I'm capable of.

I always found new challenges in my career.

I could have continued being a speechwriter for as long as I wanted.

In my head, that climb up the career ladder just doesn't exist. I feel I've achieved everything I set out to achieve, as far as work goes.

Each of my career decisions has been very much about doing what I wanted to achieve in the role and then finding another challenge.

I'd go anywhere to work, so long as it's worth it.

Don't make career choices on short-term financial gain. Job satisfaction and career enjoyment are far more important.

I really moved through my career based on curiosity about something. I never looked at a title and said, 'I want that.'

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

My career has mostly been jobs I love or cases where I needed money.