More From Alan Alda
- "Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart."
- "It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich."
- "You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school."
More In Work
- "Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."― Eleanor Roosevelt
- "To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves."― Simone Weil
- "I’m one of these very focused people when it comes to day-to-day work, and I’m trying not to think about what comes next so that I can stay very focused on what I’m doing now."― Hillary Clinton