In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
I only learn from the people I work with.
It’s necessary but not sufficient to learn and then work. You must learn from the work and learn while you work.
I get to go to work and come home with something interesting or enriching or astonishing.
There's no experience like on-the-job training.
My profession has helped me to grow up.
The decisions that you make in your career stem out from the experiences you have early on in your career.
The biggest influence on my writing, besides snagging some ideas about black humor, was that the paper mill had a program where they paid 75 percent of the tuition and book [costs] for employees who wanted to go to college part-time.
In every job, I would justify it in my mind, whether I loved it or hated it, that I was getting paid to learn and every experience would be of value when I figured out what I wanted to do when I grew up.
When you work you learn something about what you are doing and you develop habits and procedures out of what you're doing.
You know, I really don't think you learn from teachers. You learn from work. I think what you learn, really, is how to be- you have to be your own toughest critic, and you only learn that from work, from seeing work.
If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then the bridge ought not to be built.
From the minute I got to 'Fortune,' I loved my job. I knew myself to be a virtual dunce about business, and I was wide-eyed about how much I was learning.
I've been fortunate that my career has developed through on-the-job training.
The only thing worse than losing an employee you have trained is keeping an employee you haven't trained.
I think many people grow on the job.
What could I have possibly learned except the really most important thing, which is that I did not want to work at the 'New York Times'? Beyond that, I learned how a newspaper works.
Every single job is fun, but I like it to be a mix of knowing what you're going to do every day, with learning something every day.
Our most important education system is in the employees' own organization.
The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.
I find it a very encouraging sign for a society if employers are bringing online education to their companies, helping employees gain more knowledge.
The school is the servant of the workshop and will one day be absorbed in it. Therefore there will be no teachers or pupils in the Bauhaus but masters, journeymen, and apprentices.
You can go to school and learn and that works for some people. But I think the best kind of learning is practical and learning on the job.
I was useless in the classroom; I would spend my time looking out of the window after the first 10 minutes. But when you do an apprenticeship, you don't have to wait for the teacher to tell you when it's time to start, because you are on the shop floor learning for real.
Working is learning.
