Roy Ayers Quotes

For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete.

But that we didn't have the level of experience in terms of working in the industry so you weren't sure and you needed to see it and this is an industry that the more you work the better you get and that the more opportunities you have the better you get.

If you do your job properly you usually learn a lot from any role you do.

I've been fortunate that my career has developed through on-the-job training.

It has been most rewarding to work in St. Louis, California, and New York and watch the people there grow and be promoted and go off to other opportunities and positions of responsibility.

Take any job in a growing, exciting company. You'll learn so much.

I think many people grow on the job.

I always found new challenges in my career.

I'm really enjoying learning new ideas because eventually I want to become a manager myself so I'm gathering all this information from managers now and previously.

Up or out" greatly magnified the careerist emphasis on holding a position rather than doing a job.

While I was in college, I became a page at ABC. Suddenly I was working for Good Morning America, local news, national news. The page is the lowest rung of the ladder, and it's the also the place where you can ask any question and not feel dumb.

I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.

I really moved through my career based on curiosity about something. I never looked at a title and said, 'I want that.'

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

I don't believe in that kind of pragmatic career ladder stuff.

I have a harder time finding somebody. The problem is we were growing professionally during the years most people were concentrating on being a person.

One of the reasons that I'm still in the military - or I stayed in the military - is because I think the military has been a place where certainly people could improve, advance, and were treated fairly.

I still feel I'm doing the same work I've always done.

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

I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful.

I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.

I just love where I am right now in my career.

Whatever it is you want to do, take a job in that field. You will learn by experience and, slow and steady, you'll get it done!

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

I think everyone starts in the mailroom at some point! It's a right of passage. Your boss has to throw something at you and order you around for at least two years.