Lisa Madigan Quotes

If I would take a job with a professional league, I need to be ready.

The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials - literally, which is why I'm teaching at MIT.

I think higher education is over-regulated.

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate.

The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it.

Internships are so instrumental, but not only do you need to get them, you need to work at them.

If I could live in New York the rest of my life, I absolutely would, but it's also prohibitively expensive and you have to be working. New York is a lot nicer when you have a job.

I applied for a job at 'The New York Times' many years ago, and felt correctly that my life depended on it.

I have nothing against interviews. I don't pursue them. When people I work for deem it appropriate, I'm perfectly willing to serve.

Credentials are critical if you want to do something professional. If you want to become a doctor or lawyer or teacher or professor, there is a credentialing process. But there are a lot of other things where it's not clear they're that important.

For most jobs, especially those in the digital economy, there is no objective standard for being 'qualified.' If you and the team you're working with think you're qualified, you are.

We are making sure that the courses we offer at MITx and HarvardX are quintessential MIT and Harvard courses. They are not watered down. They are not MIT Lite or Harvard Lite. These are hard courses. These are the exact same courses, so the certificate will mean something.

I don't have a college degree.

Google attracts so much talent, it can afford to look beyond traditional metrics, like G.P.A. For most young people, though, going to college and doing well is still the best way to master the tools needed for many careers.

Years and years ago, when everyone knew that Pierce was going to be doing the job, they started selecting new people. I had this bizarre thing when I hadn't done many movies, and of going on for an interview.

If you ain't got your black hat, there ain't no use in filling out an application.

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Why must everyone need a doctorate to teach? You can be a graduate from my institute in two months and for $11,000.

I'm not even an engineer. I don't have a college degree; I hire guys with college degrees.

Students now see college more as a credentialing institution rather than an academic institution.

Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that's associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.

That was my trick. I interned a lot.

I know not how it is: there are some businesses for which dullness seems to be a qualification.

My first qualification is I didn't go to Columbia Journalism School.