Adviser Quote by John Carmack

My objective was to have as varied a selection of roles as possible. It probably did hurt my career.

— Stacy Keach

We started off with a set of objectives for what we needed to communicate with the company's identity, created several proposals intended to meet…

— Gabe Newell

I love my career. I thought, if I was lucky, I would retire as a senior intelligence officer, still working on the issues of…

— Valerie Plame

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

— Helen Gurley Brown

I was an intelligence officer, not a policy-maker.

— Cofer Black

I believe that I have the executive experience and the ideas and the proven record to fix things.

— Jeb Bush

The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a problem proved to be of immense value later when I had…

— Elliot Richardson

For me, if I knew that I wanted to be a CEO and I set that final destination right up front, that helped me…

— Denise Morrison

I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair.

— Bob Graham

Everyone I know who used to be in the intelligence community is moving into the corporate world.

— Tony Gilroy

I never gave my career much strategic thought. Maybe I should have.

— Nicholas Meyer

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

— Steven Wright