Irvin Mayfield Quotes

With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.

The best jobs will go to the best educated people.

It’s harder and harder to get a job if you just have a strong back. You need an education.

The majority of the new jobs being created require higher skills, more education.

It's a practical matter. If you're useful to others, you'll be hired.

Intelligence, knowledge or experience are important and might get you a job, but strong communication skills are what will get you promoted.

It's a combination of targeting higher paying jobs in these growth areas and fostering closer cooperation with higher education; a rising tide that lifts all boats.

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.

We are currently working on new policies to protect and create American jobs, particularly by improving education. We need more information in order to find the best solutions to this increasing concern for American families.

What you earn is largely determined by what you learn.

Education is more valuable than money. Money can be taken away from you. Education cannot be.

You need more education to get any job.

We have middle skill jobs available, and high skill jobs available. There are no longer and unskilled jobs.

While there have been news reports of recent college graduates living with their parents because they have been unable to find a job paying a salary sufficient to move out, their near and long-term career prospects remain far brighter than for those without a college degree.

The true value proposition of education is employment.

I know that if I had got educated, I might have ended up as a call-center employee.

I believe you cannot survive in this global economy without some form of postsecondary education.

There is a belief that getting any particular job may depend on who has just had five consecutive victories. If that's the way it is, I've got a healthy attitude.

It's hard to get opportunities anywhere. There are a lot of coaches out there and a lot of talented coaches too. It's not easy. Quite often there's no perfect situation that emerges.

During his weekly address to the nation, President Obama discussed higher education and said, 'The most important skill you can sell is your knowledge.' Or as English majors working at Starbucks put it, 'No it's not.'

I've always had a proper job. I don't know anything else.

If you are a manager who is in your first or second job, the big worry would be where is your next job coming from, but I'm not in that position.

I try to keep my own career in check, but when I came to America there were very few people wrestling.

I've always said I didn't want to coach. But I can't coach in college because I don't have my degree. So I want to give myself opportunities. A degree is something everyone should have.

Engineering has proven to be one of the most fruitful tracks of study in the job market, as the skills and training developed by an engineering program are far more versatile than many believed.