Awarded Quote by Joshua Lederberg

When my career took off it surprised me, I was only 22. To have that much success so fast, I just wasn't prepared.

— Jose Feliciano

My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older.…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

There's something about garnering success as you get older that means you're ready for it. I feel a lot of things would have been…

— Andi Oliver

I was given a lot of opportunities when I was younger that I kind of threw away.

— Zoe Ball

Eventually I lost the idea that I could have a career. I thought I was too old.

— Dixie Carter

I won the first contest I ever entered, when I was 6.

— Ryan Sheckler

I got the job I wanted when I was 22, and I'm not going to give it up now.

— Melvyn Bragg

Certainly after '21' I was getting the opportunity to make a lot of money.

— Jim Sturgess

I had won four trophies by the time I was 25.

— Tony Adams

I was about 17 when I began my career.

— Bappi Lahiri

I was 29 when I wrote my first novel. But I was 45 when I quit for good. I was a 16-year overnight success.

— Richard North Patterson

I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it.

— Francis Ford Coppola