Gerald Chertavian Quotes

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

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

I think that if you keep your eyes and your ears open and you are receptive to learning, there are skills you can get from any job at all.

Being really good at 'learning how to learn,' as President Bill Brody of Johns Hopkins put it, will be an enormous asset in an era of rapid change and innovation, when new jobs will be phased in and old ones phased out faster than ever.

I've always felt that work - learning from people who know more than I know - is what keeps you going.

There are some aspects of work you need to keep working on and no matter what environment you are in. Continuous learning is very important. It's what I call 'competitive tension', which is about having a competition around.

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.

Technology is changing so fast that knowledge about specifics can quickly become obsolete. That's why so much of what technicians learn is on the job.

The secret of success lies in investing into education, as the wealthy countries do. This means not in technology and machines first. That would come later, with educated and qualified individuals. Considering that we are lagging behind reforms, the only way to make up for such gap is to have a non-linear development by making leaps, all of which would be have an education as a base. Education, training, knowledge, are the major driving forces of progress.

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

That's the amazing thing about our jobs; it's constantly changing, and it's extremely dynamic, and you, therefore, have to be dynamic as well.

What we want is for our young people to be skilled.

Successful workers will be those who embrace a lifetime of learning. Those who don't will be left behind.

Education - lifelong education for everyone - from toddlers to workers well advanced in their careers - is indeed an excellent investment for individuals and society as a whole.

I've always been about learning. No matter how long I've been in the business or where I've been in a company, I've always wanted to continue to learn.

I hope to be at the top of my game when I'm 65 or 70. I don't want to reach my peak at 29. Not that I'm holding back anything, but there's a bunch of junk I don't know.

If you're going to be a professional you continue to grow.

I feel like I learn something new every day, and that's what's exciting about my job.

It's every teacher's job to be rigorous about constantly being open to new ideas and innovation.

Working is learning.

Companies can't offer every employee a vertical rise through the ranks, and some employees' careers will level off. Without the prospects of further advancement, how do you keep these people satisfied throughout what might now be a longer working life? By providing them with an increased level of autonomy.

I want to evolve and improve as a professional.

I always say to students, 'You're never going to have all the skills, but you have to have a skill.'

Successful people, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession.

The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own.