Tom Peters Quotes

When you get to a certain point in your career, it's easy to just phone it in, to get complacent. If you're not careful, you can stop challenging yourself.

My philosophy is whatever you do, you've got to invest in yourself. If you don't, there are a lot of people out there who will get the job because they're more prepared than you.

Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?

I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing.

I'm still working on my career, still trying to learn from other artistes and develop my skills and my style.

All of my career has been an attempt to educate myself and get paid for it.

I'm lucky to be in a profession where you can keep getting better.

I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.

I feel like if you're stuck doing the same thing your whole career you've got to be doing something wrong. Unless you're getting great results from it or you're just comfortable in that spot.

I was always taught by my father to challenge myself and to continue to evolve in my career, and I saw the move to Manchester United as an opportunity to grow as a player and as a person.

If you are 25, 30, 35, you need to think you can learn every day. If not, you are going to go backwards, and of course you are going to fail, and you begin to see the end of your career.

What's wrong with wanting to be better at your job?

I am always on the lookout for roles which will help me better myself.

I always found new challenges in my career.

Persons who reach the higher rungs in business management, selling, engineering, religious work, writing, acting, and in every other pursuit get there by following conscientiously and continuously a plan for self-development and growth.

My best investment, as cliched as this sounds, is the money I've spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins within, and to have a better career, start by building a better you.

Right up until the time I retired at age 37, I felt like there were still things that I could do better.

My job now is to work hard and learn all I can.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

The whole goal for me with my career is just follow good projects and good parts and challenge myself as much as I can.

I got the first job and kept going. Once I got a job, I very much wanted to keep getting jobs, basically. I did try to learn what I could in those first couple of decades.

I still take acting, singing, and dance classes. I think no matter where you go in your career, you can always learn more and better yourself.

I feel that working now is the way for me to learn things, whether it's languages or another activity.

My profession has helped me to grow up.

I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career.