Peter Jones Quotes

Apprenticeships are the real nitty-gritty way of creating an efficient, skillful and vibrant workforce.

I actually started my career interning at Perry Ellis and got to work with Marc Jacobs.

Apprenticeship is a proven model for developing a skilled workforce.

Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets.

John Parsons, the gay art director at 'Vogue,' really started my career.

We need to tell better stories of men and women who master a trade. We have to stop telling kids to blindly follow their passion and show them the opportunities that exist. That was the big, overarching message of 'Dirty Jobs.'

I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.

If you're early on in your career and they give you a choice between a great mentor or higher pay, take the mentor every time. It's not even close. And don't even think about leaving that mentor until your learning curve peaks.

I came to TVF for 3-4 months after college. That was my internship time.

I think technical education and vocational skills and having a trade mean something.

We have seen a shift in the focus of education before entering the workplace, with earning and learning the new norm.

I was about 17 when I began my career.

I never went to college. I started working when I was 17.

I'm seeing too many smart kind of socially awkward kids, a lot milder than I was, not getting employment because they're not learning job skills.

I interview these people all the time who come to my office and say, "I want to be a fashion designer." I tell them where they should start, and they say, "I don't want to do that. I don't want to get anyone coffee." Don't they know it is great to get people coffee?

I want to invest in community colleges, training programs, and high-quality apprenticeships that help people gain the skills they need for the jobs of the future.

Apprenticeships, when they are delivered well, have the potential to offer massive benefits to our employers and our economy as a whole by upskilling our workforce, and offer a vital alternative to those who feel that a more academic route is not the right one for them.

Mentors and sponsors, particularly in the early stages of my career, were invaluable to me because they encouraged me to raise my hand and take opportunities to build my capabilities.

Community colleges, businesses, trade associations and others have begun to issue a range of their own credentials to certify when a worker has mastered a valuable expertise. Apprenticeships often fill this need perfectly.

In college, I interned for Diane Sawyer my sophomore summer.

Before I was ever a baker, I was a teacher. Or, at least, that is what I thought I was going to be. After O-levels, I went to art school in Wallasey on the Wirral, and my mate Cavan and I did a teacher training course.

I came here when I was 20. I came to go to school, but I ended up working for Halston as an assistant. That happened in a very strange way. My father had a meeting with Halston. And my father said to me, 'Join me. I want you to meet this amazing American designer.' And I happened to just tag along, and Halston offered me a job.

I very much like Christopher Kane. He actually did a work placement with me, and you could spot his talent straight away.

When you start out, you're hungry to take any job. I didn't go to film school - I went from high school to a show about high school and on to directing.

Not only does work experience provide the opportunity to sample a potential career, but it also builds the essential skills often regarded as 'soft skills' that are needed to thrive in work.