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Sam Donaldson Quotes

American - Journalist | March 11, 1934 -

It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.

Kind Radio Being Exciting Everybody

If you have a setback, and you're not doing well and then you overcome it somehow, it always sticks with you. You know it could happen again.

Doing You Know Overcome Always Well

I wanted to be in this business, and once I got into the business I knew I enjoyed it, and I liked it, and I wanted to continue, but I never had a five year plan.

Business Plan Year Never Got Five

I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.

Work Success Failure People Start

I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but I knew. I read magazines, I listened to radio, I watched television. I knew there was something out there, and I wanted a part of it.

Life Age Time My Life Television

I can't tell you what that little ingredient is which makes that first person want to go on and aggressively do more, and the other person be content to not do that. It's a mystery, but it does happen.

Mystery You Person Go Want First

But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.

Business You News Observation Give

But I guess the lesson is this: If you don't have confidence in yourself and think that you are worth hiring, or whatever it is, you can't expect anyone else to.

Confidence Yourself Think Worth You

But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.

Ambition Thought Farm Farmer Young

As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.

Step People College Think Journalism

And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.

Education Success Mother Today Me

And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.

City Night Texas Thought You Down

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