Patricia Schroeder Quotes

I understand the challenge with student loans. But what about the labor force, the enlisted men and women, so to speak, of ships. Those who work with their hands and their minds. We need to do what we do in the military, is we train and retrain.

We've got to make sure that we have the workers of tomorrow.

Apprenticeships are a particularly effective way to create career pathways with upward mobility and strong earning potential. Because apprentices receive a paycheck, it's a great option for those with families to support, including many veterans.

A well-trained workforce is critical to small-business success. What I hear from business is that it's hard to find help that meets their needs.

A lot of these industries are having difficulty finding reliable workers with the skills they require.

Apprenticeships are the real nitty-gritty way of creating an efficient, skillful and vibrant workforce.

We need to figure out how to connect people to jobs.

I want the best people, not just on the banking side but on innovation and technology.

There is no business in the world - I don't care what it is, whether it's I.T. or manufacturing - that does not have what I may refer to as a blended resource base. You have high-end work. You have engineering work. You have some local knowledge you require. Then, you have some very low-cost work to be done.

We cannot keep gapping units where we need a good strong NCO or staff NCO and he's not there. They've got to have the right technical, the right leadership qualifications for the billet.

There are some careers where hands-on experience means so much more than the book work of it.

The golden recipe for creating jobs is learning what kinds of people companies need and feeding them with training programmes.

I have never been a recruiter. It won't ever happen.

I have a wealth of experience, but I do not want to coach. I rather like the role of recruiter.

When you hire someone, you are investing in them.

There are clearly skills shortages in some areas, and businesses can make sure they get the skills they need by training people on the job.

From the day Microsoft was started, the only constraint to our growth has been attracting ah, more great programmers, very smart, committed, ah, people. And so we're always on... on the look for ah, that kind of person.

You see where the fighter jets are so old that they can't get parts anymore. They have to go to plane - airplane graveyards and museums to get parts for our fighter jets that we're currently using. They don't make the parts. And you have other countries that have brand new equipment. And in some cases, we sell them the equipment. The whole thing is ridiculous.

Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.

If you have a choice between qualifications and personal qualities when it comes to hiring people, go with personal qualities. You can teach them the job.

I have no known marketable skills.

I think we do need better training programs, we do need a way to get people from careers that are dead-end into new careers.

Everyone says you have to be a specialist, and if you conduct Wagner you cannot conduct Mozart - this is nonsense.

Programmers have not been professionals because they haven't really cared about quality.

It's hard for me to sympathize with a young person who chooses to go into the military because they know where they're going. I think we need to start depopulating the military.