Andreas Schleicher Quotes

You would think that when someone accepts a position with a company, they would assume that their life will be better off because they have that job rather than a different one.

The best jobs will go to the best educated people.

I have been able to play a lot of guys and they have kept me working.

I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them.

I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.

College education is the great Filipino dream. But in a world of rapid technological change, getting a job or keeping it depends as much on how well one reasons as how well one uses his hands.

People want opportunity so they can earn security.

You just want to be able to have a nice career and make a living at it.

I've been really lucky because when I go out to L.A. it's for a job, not to look for a job. That's the way I like L.A. most - when I already have a job.

My generation were all careerists.

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

The true value proposition of education is employment.

There's probably people that go to Harvard and say, 'Listen, I went to Harvard. I got a great education, and I can't find a job, or I didn't become the success that I could have been.' Sure, I mean, you probably have that at every major university.

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

For my family, for my loved ones, my priority is to have a job and perform.

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

It feels great to know that more people are finding work and gaining the experience, not to mention self-confidence, that they need.

I'll continue working as long as people want to hire me.

The Blanks has just been a godsend because I don't have to sit around waiting for the phone to ring and I get to go out and be gainfully employed while I'm waiting for another job.

I wanted to have something to fall back on. I got my degree in business administration.

Stop overanalyzing how you 'feel' about your job and focus on being great at it. That will lead to bigger and better opportunities.

Most of us got jobs right after 'The Larry Sanders Show' because of 'The Larry Sanders Show.' I know that for a fact for myself.

Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It's time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.

We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum.

In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high.