Tom Peters Quotes

The American people recognize that their careers or their kids' careers are going to have to be more dynamic. That they might not be working at a single plant for 30 years. That they might have to change careers. They might have to get more education. They might have to retool or retrain. And I think the American people are game for that.

If you thought when you got your job at 20 that it would never change you were misinformed. Retrain yourself to be curious.

Work changes over time, as you change and the world changes.

I'm lucky I get to work a lot.

Jobs are central to the American dream - and President Obama has focused on jobs from day one.

Today, you expand or you are expendable.

I've been lucky - I've been an actor for eight years and I've never been out of work.

First create jobs, and then provide skills to people.

There is a large change coming in the jobs of America and competition from abroad. We should prepare for it rather than let history overwhelm us.

We must switch from a regulatory framework centered on the protection of individual jobs to the idea of protection on the market based on the concept of employability.

There are worse things than being constantly hired to do anything.

It's so hard to work that I feel so lucky any time I get to work.

On a career level, I always advise people to look ahead and be open to changes in direction. That job that seems so good now can easily turn into a nightmare if you do not see the possible corners it can land you in.

I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.

You don't ever really wanna be let go from a job, but like anything that happens in life, you gotta make the best of your situation.

All these pros are getting better every day. You just want to catch up to them.

The only job security you have today os your commitment to continuous personal improvement.

Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.

I probably need another couple of years of absorbing that and really looking at it to be able to do it because you actually have to know everybody's job and I don't know everybody's job yet. I'm just now comfortable with my own.

I believe over the last six years now, I've been learning in between actual acting moments on the show.

This world is changing enormously. In any position in a company you need to work very hard on learning new skills every day, but you also need to unlearn some of the old skills from the past.

There is no normal. What my job was a few years ago was completely different than what it is today. As soon as I have it dialed in, the company changes and the team changes and my role changes as a result. What the company needs is always evolving, and I don't get to choose what I want to do as much as I thought I would be now - which is OK. It keeps me in this position of learning new things and keeping me humble. There is always something I don't know, and I'm comfortable with that.

After more than twenty-five years in television, there are days when I feel like I'm just beginning, because I'm learning new things. I want to be better all the time.

No matter who you are, the game is fluid. The game is always evolving, so you always have to keep working on it. There are plenty of hours in the day to get that done.

Obviously this stuff takes a bit of planning, but I've always been someone that sets achievable short-term goals. I've never been someone that's had a five-year plan, or a three-year plan. That just seems to lead to a lot of disappointment, and doesn't give you the chance to be flexible. So I've just always been someone that's sort of reassessed where I'm at, and set goals that are realistic. And luckily, I've had plenty of chances to recalibrate and adjust, and good fortune's come my way.