Tom Freston Quotations

When I got fired, I had a feeling of loss because Viacom had been a passionate long-term relationship. But I got my balance back. I guess its like getting jilted by a girlfriend, a serious girlfriend. You move on.

A career path is rarely a path at all. A more interesting life is usual a more crooked, winding path of missteps, luck and vigorous work. It is almost always a clumsy balance between the things you try to make happen and the things that happen to you.

People often say that a bad event is a 'blessing in disguise.' Trust me, experience will teach you that some are unbelievably well disguised. Everyone gets fired, or decides to make a radical change at some point. Everyone suffers setbacks.

Only true love can fuel the hard work that awaits you.

I always hustled to make money and pay for school. I was never afraid of hard work.

I've never been fired in my life. From anything. I've never failed at anything I've tried.

If you look at the Internet, it's been hard for a lot of the traditional media companies to launch viable brands.

I have prevented my kids from watching MTV at home. It's not safe for kids.

Travel is the best and probably cheapest graduate school you can buy.

I always imagined myself somehow as an electron around some atom, and you're just, like, bouncing around and spinning. There was a never-ending supply of places to go, people to see, things to do, and fitting it all in became kind of an art.