Richard Cohen Quotes

When people say that college isn't worthwhile and paying all this money isn't worthwhile, I really disagree. I think those experiences and those classes that may not necessarily seem applicable in the moment end up coming back to you time and time again.

I never went to college to make money.

I definitely want to continue being an actress. I love it. The reason I'm going to college is because I do want knowledge in another field. College isn't the college experience for me. I'm not going to be in a sorority. I'm not going to network. I'm not even really going to make my lifelong friends.

A college degree is not essential, but if you're already in college, and if it's at all possible, you should definitely try to finish. In college, you have a very supportive community right there, and it can give you opportunities to try out new things.

I thought I'd get an MBA, and then I could be anything. And I'd write on the side. That was the idea.

In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.

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

In Venezuela, which doesn't have thousands of prestige universities like the U.S., people usually stay at home while attending to college. After they graduate, they move for a job or get married.

I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.

I thought I would attend school and get an assistant position and work my way up but being in NY and seeing the pace of everything, is very inspiring.

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.

Little opportunities should be improved.

I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.

If I had been at a University I don't think I would have been able to have the experience I had in my Smithsonian work. I don't think I have been as successful.

I think I really benefited from going to college.

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

We know that a college degree is rapidly becoming the price of admission to the global economy.

While there have been news reports of recent college graduates living with their parents because they have been unable to find a job paying a salary sufficient to move out, their near and long-term career prospects remain far brighter than for those without a college degree.

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.

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 must say I have turned down several great companies, so I'd probably say I have to keep learning.

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.

I am always on the lookout for roles which will help me better myself.

After I did my graduation in mechanical engineering, I got a scholarship to go to the U.S. to do my master's. So I did that. I also worked there for a while. After my master's, I did a course in Film Appreciation.

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.