Michelle Wolf Quotes

I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very lucky.

I got alright GCSEs, but I was lost. I didn't know what to do, whether to continue with education, go to uni, go to art school - then again, I was like, 'Maybe I should just go and get a job, start early and make money.'

If that is your route, to go to university and get a job that way, that is fantastic.

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

But I was going to be a teacher my entire life, so I wasn't counting on money to much.

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.

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

I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job.

I believe there's a job in the fish factory for me. That's enough to get me through every audition.

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.

I know I'll always work. In what form, it really doesn't matter.

Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don't know what I'd do.

A postsecondary education is the ticket to economic success in America.

I wasn't worried about unemployment.

Communications is the number one major in America today. CNN had 25,000 applicants for five intern jobs this summer.

I will never be unemployed.

The American dream always meant that anybody willing to put in a hard day's work could make a decent living. That's just not true anymore for people without at least some post-high school education.

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.

People don't say, 'I just had a kid and I hope it turns out to be a factory worker.'

Going to college and finding a good job no longer guarantee economic safety.

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.

A generation ago, it wasn't necessary to have a college degree to get into the middle class …

Graduating from high school is certainly a good idea, but it's no longer much protection against poverty.

I don't necessarily think that when I graduated college, I had a plan to work at an ad agency. I had a plan in terms of getting the best job I could, like, just whatever normal job.

The idea that you won't have a job is a real fear that people go through, so when people talk about jobs and say, 'I'm gonna create jobs!' or, 'There's gonna be a loss of jobs,' those are just words. But the reality of someone actually losing their job - I mean, it's their entire life for most people in this country.