Doug Ducey Quotes

A high school and college degree are linked to greater employment prospects, higher earning potential, and the ability to contribute more to our communities.

After completing a Delaware State education, they were afforded opportunities beyond anything they might have imagined - and they opened doors for themselves that surely would have remained closed if they only had a high school education.

In America today, a young person needs more education after high school just to have a chance to make it in the middle class. Not a guarantee, just a chance to make it.

When I went to school, most parents wanted their children to get good A-levels, to go to university, and get a degree so your children had a better life than you. The way out of poverty was through a degree. But the whole world has moved on from that.

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.

It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.

Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.

I think a college education is important no matter what you do in life.

I don't have a college degree.

When I finished school, everyone wanted to go to a good university and become a lawyer or a doctor. My A-levels were sort of chosen for me.

There was a time when bright people had few prospects for higher education and good jobs here. But that is changing. India is no longer seen as an undesirable place to work or pursue research.

Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate.

I didn't go to university, and so, every time that I work, I'm looking for a teacher in a way. I'm looking for people that I can learn from and to have the chance to work with people that I admire.

90% of the fastest growing jobs require some form of post-secondary education.

If you are willing to be a lifelong learner, you can be a lifelong employee.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

I could be earning a lot of money as a consultant, or gone higher in education.

I would love to go to college because you never know what is going to happen with your career, and you always want something to fall back on.

If you get better educated, you might yourself higher up the ladder, but the ladder will still be there.

I work with kids every day, and I preach to them how much more they make and how much easier it is to get a job when they get a college education.

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

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.

After years of working on books, I eventually took a more business-oriented job, for the same sorts of reasons that most people take most new jobs: fancier title, higher pay, opportunities for advancement.

If I were to be a role model, it would just come out of going the college route, getting training, and trusting that's the most secure path you can take - a path where a degree is involved. You know you went to college, and you have that under your belt.

If anything goes wrong, it's important to have your education to fall back on.