About Quote by James Bernard Frost

When I was 15, I left school to start a magazine, and it became a success because I wouldn't take no for an answer.…

— Richard Branson

My first job as a kid was going from door to door selling Christmas cards, to raise money for my grandmother's hip replacement. Because,…

— Emo Philips

I sold my first story when I was 21 in 1973.

— Joe R. Lansdale

I'd been working since I was eleven so I could buy my own comic books. I was that kid knocking on your door, selling…

— Boots Riley

Before the arrival of my first son, I gave up on the moribund business of magazine publishing, where I had long dreamed of a…

— Rumaan Alam

At age 28, I had no retail experience, no consumer marketing experience and no real Internet experience. But I decided I wanted to work…

— Mariam Naficy

Just about everything significant in my life happened after I passed forty. I was a housewife and mother, but yearned to be a writer.…

— Pearl S. Buck

After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.

— Lloyd Alexander

I started my first business at 14!

— Terry McAuliffe

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.

— Kent Haruf

When I was starting out, when I put aside my career as an economist. I looked at every book, went to every show, did…

— Sebastiao Salgado

My first job was to run a concessions cart. Later, I found a position at the Pacific Film Archive. Thus began a long series…

— Mona Simpson