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I had had some successes in the '90s, always made money, but the truth was I was like a man pushing a boulder up a hill. A huge, heavy, difficult boulder made up of some career mistakes, projects that didn't meet expectations, and twenty years of being a known quantity.

— Rob Lowe

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I made my money turning around distressed or bankrupt companies. I did 50-some of them in my career... I started on a shoestring and eventually built up quite a fortune.

— Michael Heisley

My biggest successes were mainly in the pop market during the 80s.

— Juice Newton

I worked full time jobs, basically doing manual labor until I could make enough money supporting myself as a musician.

— Flea

There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.

— Lauren Bacall

I never made any money, but I had the best jobs in the world.

— Letitia Baldrige

I had a good career. I've been very fortunate.

— Johnny Ramone

My career hadn't rocketed to the top of anything, but I've worked consistently and done things I've loved.

— Max von Essen

I found the most difficult thing when you became successful - when I had the record album, it won Album of the Year - that you were cut off from the source of your material. Your material was everyday people, and you were kind of cut off from that, and you had to work at it.

— Bob Newhart

✗Opposing Perspectives

I've been so fortunate because I never really had ups and downs as far as my career. Ninety-nine percent of the time, I've been sold out all over the world.

— Tony Bennett

I built a great company, one of the - some of the most iconic assets in the world, $10 billion of net worth, more than $10 billion of net worth, and frankly, I had a great time doing it.

— Donald Trump