The End of Jobs Quotes

“Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.”
― Taylor Pearson, The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5

“While our first instinct is usually attempting to push harder, it’s more valuable to figure out where to push.”
― Taylor Pearson, The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5

“Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.” William Hutchinson Murray, The Scottish Himalayan Expedition (1951)”
― Taylor Pearson, The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5

“Entrepreneurship is connecting, creating, and inventing systems—be they businesses, people, ideas, or processes. A job is the act of following the operating system someone else created.”
― Taylor Pearson, The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5

“If you do things that are safe but feel risky, you gain a significant advantage in the marketplace.”
― Taylor Pearson, The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5

“In 1980, AT&T hired McKinsey & Co—one of the most prestigious management consulting firms in the world—to predict how many cell phone users there would be in the U.S. in 2000. Based on the large study they conducted, they predicted there would be around 900,000. There were actually about 100 million. So close! Only off by ninety nine million one hundred thousand—a factor of 120.14”
― Taylor Pearson, The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5

“Because of the qualitative and structural changes to the economy, it’s getting harder to find jobs, they’re more risky, and they’re less profitable.”
― Taylor Pearson, The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5

“One of the reasons why I’m now without a position, why I’ve been without a position for years, it’s quite simply because I have different ideas from these gentlemen who give positions to individuals who think like them.”
― Taylor Pearson, The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5

“There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.” ​— ​Christopher Morley”
― Taylor Pearson, The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5

“The 7 Day Startup, a self-published book by Dan Norris, teaches entrepreneurs how to identify, build, and test startup ideas in a week.”
― Taylor Pearson, The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5

“If we can structure meaning and freedom into our work now, we see the Tom Sawyer”
― Taylor Pearson, The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5

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― Taylor Pearson, The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5

“If you look at someone five years ahead of you professionally, like looking down the hallway at an office, is that someone whose life you want?”
― Taylor Pearson, The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5

“The biggest problem we’re dealing with today is the underutilization of individuals. The most talented and ambitious young people, when they feel under-utilized in the jobs, shrink to fit their position.”
― Taylor Pearson, The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5

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― Taylor Pearson, The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5

“A few major opportunities, clearly recognizable as such, will usually come to one who continuously searches and waits, with a curious mind loving diagnosis involving multiple variables. And then all that is required is a willingness to bet heavily when the odds are extremely favorable, using resources available as a result of prudence and patience in the past.” Charles T. Munger Frequently overshadowed by Warren Buffett, his partner in the $300 billion Berkshire Hathaway holding company, Charlie Munger is a quiet, reclusive figure. Rarely making public appearances, the unostentatious billionaire spends most of his time as Buffett does: reading, thinking, and managing Berkshire Hathaway from his home in Southern California. Buffett and Munger have, over the course of their careers, amassed a multi-billion dollar empire with a brilliant-in-its-simplicity investment strategy: value investing.”
― Taylor Pearson, The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5

“Give me a lever long enough…and I shall move the world.” Addressing the limit is like having a longer lever. Instead of just pushing harder, we’re figuring out where to push to create the greatest impact.”
― Taylor Pearson, The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5

“we frequently avoid making choices not because the outcome is bad, but simply because it’s unknown.”
― Taylor Pearson, The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5

“The same technologies, machines, and globalization that have increased your competition in the job market have been a boon to entrepreneurs. They’ve dropped startup costs, opened new markets, and created new distribution channels. It’s easier and cheaper than ever to make something and tell people about it.”
― Taylor Pearson, The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5

“The social and technological inventions of the past one hundred years have brought us to the “End of Jobs” while making entrepreneurship safer, more accessible, and more profitable than ever.”
― Taylor Pearson, The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5

“It doesn’t depend on outside events, but our interpretation of them. Happiness is a condition which can be prepared for and cultivated. It’s that ability to control our own inner experience that will determine the quality of our lives.”
― Taylor Pearson, The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5

“We’ve seen the number of college graduates globally go from ninety million to one hundred and thirty million between 2000 and 2010. It took us all of human history to get to ninety million and then only ten years to add another forty million.”
― Taylor Pearson, The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5

“Jobs not only limit the upside of intrinsic value by tying money to time—they also give up control. We have no leverage beyond trading more time, which is our most valuable and only truly limited asset. We lose control to react to market forces outside the scope of the job.”
― Taylor Pearson, The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5

“We aren’t going through a global recession—we’re transitioning between two distinct economic periods.”
― Taylor Pearson, The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5

“Since 1983, the only segment of “jobs” to show significant growth were “Non-Routine Cognitive Jobs.” In other words: creating systems.”
― Taylor Pearson, The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5

“If we think of the great contributions made to human society, they were all made by people that were free to do whatever they wanted, but used the freedom to create. Vincent Van Gogh wasn’t obligated to paint; he freely chose it. He struggled early in his life seeking work: “One of the reasons why I’m now without a position, why I’ve been without a position for years, it’s quite simply because I have different ideas from these gentlemen who give positions to individuals who think like them.” Imagine someone telling Steve Jobs that he had to design a new phone. Given that sense of obligation, he likely would have just made a slightly better Blackberry.”
― Taylor Pearson, The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5

“The problem both for us as a society and as individuals is that we’re asking the wrong question: “How do I get a job doing that?” What if the better question is: “How do I create a job doing that?”
― Taylor Pearson, The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5

“For the first time in history, we've reached a point where humans' natural drive to strive and grow by working on interesting problems aligns with what the market demands. It's not only in congruence with fundamental human drives -- it's more economically valuable.”
― Taylor Pearson, The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5

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― Taylor Pearson, The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5

“music label exists for four main reasons: talent scouring, financing to rent a studio (like startup capital for a business), distribution, and marketing. From Birdmonster’s angle, they could do all those things themselves, but better and cheaper. They already knew they were talented since they’d been getting gigs. Since they could edit the music on their own computers, they didn’t need financing to rent a studio. CD Baby provided distribution to all the top services like iTunes and Rhapsody, and weekly payouts instead of payout nine months later like traditional record distributors. The effect of their Myspace page (it was the early 2000’s) and a personal email to well known blogs was greater than anything record labels could provide in terms of marketing.”
― Taylor Pearson, The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5