Zig Ziglar Quotes

I tell people all the time: get some training and become a student of your craft.

I think many people grow on the job.

In my 35 years in the army I was in school for 6 years. I think corporations should take a look at whether they are investing enough in the development of their human capital.

We want to offer job training and mentoring and build the site with more robust, reliable and flexible technology.

The only thing worse than losing an employee you have trained is keeping an employee you haven't trained.

Every job you do, you gain more experience. You never stop learning.

Just looking at Onex: We hire almost entirely at the most bottom level and bring them through a nine-year training program. We're probably 70/30 today not requiring an MBA.

For practitioners of community development, as in any field, joining a network of like-minded professionals is important for building skills and becoming aware of opportunities and resources.

But that we didn't have the level of experience in terms of working in the industry so you weren't sure and you needed to see it and this is an industry that the more you work the better you get and that the more opportunities you have the better you get.

Work on your craft, and your career will come. Work on your community, and your career will come. But just work on your career, and you'll have neither a craft nor a community.

The more versatile you make yourself, the more work you get. Training makes you more versatile and ultimately gets you more work. Julliard taught me that.

I want my career to grow gradually. There's still so much for me to learn. I'm just trying to take these opportunities to get better at what I'm doing.

We're talking about people who've already got 3-4, if not 5-6 years' experience or more, and it's about trying to help professionals develop, using us as a resource for that development.

Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.

I didn't go to university, and so, every time that I work, I'm looking for a teacher in a way. I'm looking for people that I can learn from and to have the chance to work with people that I admire.

I like having young assistants in my office; they have energy, and I spend time with them to make sure they understand what we're doing. By investing in them, I'm investing in the magazine. All over 'Vogue,' 'Teen Vogue,' and 'Men's Vogue,' there are people who have been through not only my office but also many other offices at 'Vogue.'

I remember the first couple of years when I was coming up through the ranks, some of the old-timers would take me aside after the match and critique me.

If I wanted to do anything in the coaching world, I would probably need to upskill myself.

Training is always important.

We're learning the business, meeting people we need to know, getting knowledgeable about our craft.

I want to evolve and improve as a professional.

In all American professional sports you start on a certain level and you have to work your way up through a farm system. It's really the same in acting.

Train everyone lavishly. You can't overspend on training.

Your company should act as a springboard for ambitious employees, not a set of shackles.