Bill Frist Quotes

The only thing you can do is have "job training" for people for the new jobs that we're gonna create after the job you have leaves for Mexico. Job training? Are you kidding? That's what schools are! That's the never-ending promise of liberalism.

I want to invest in community colleges, training programs, and high-quality apprenticeships that help people gain the skills they need for the jobs of the future.

A modern economy and society requires skilled people, so you need to train them.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

At the end of the day, things don't get better unless you continue to invest in your workforce. And I've not heard any Republican talk about education and the investment in the future workforce.

Some go on to trade schools or get further training for jobs they are interested in. Some go into the arts, some are craftsmen, some take a little time out to travel, and some start their own businesses. But our graduates find and work at what they want to do.

Training has been such a huge part of my life and career I hope to keep going with it.

I think that training is important. I think you need to learn as much as you can learn. I would say that it's important and probably crucial, but I wouldn't say that everyone has to have it.

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

The more versatile you make yourself, the more work you get. Training makes you more versatile and ultimately gets you more work. Julliard taught me that.

England is the country where I learned my profession. They are the ones that trained me, they are the ones that believed in me.

Our education system is not meeting the needs of today’s workforce much less tomorrow’s.

Train any population rationally, and they will be rational. Furnish honest and useful employments to those so trained, and such employments they will greatly prefer to dishonest or injurious occupations. It is beyond all calculation the interest of every government to provide that training and that employment; and to provide both is easily practicable.

You need more education to get any job.

We have middle skill jobs available, and high skill jobs available. There are no longer and unskilled jobs.

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

I tell people all the time: get some training and become a student of your craft.

What we want is for our young people to be skilled.

There are clearly skills shortages in some areas, and businesses can make sure they get the skills they need by training people on the job.

Training is always important.

In Liberia, the big challenge that remains for us is job creation. We want young people to work or go to school. That is our main preoccupation right now.

Successful people, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession.

Starting in high school and continuing through our higher education system, we must ensure our students are on the right path to acquiring marketable skills that will lead to a productive and satisfying career. My goal is for every student to get a job after they graduate – not move back in with his or her parents. To do that, we must emphasize skill attainment in our community colleges and universities, use our resources more efficiently and measure success in a comprehensive way.

As organizations, we have to find ways to create more opportunities, especially for our young people. A lot of corporations, they have to make opportunities for young people - create internships, for example, even if it's only half-time.

I want to give people jobs and put them on great shows. I want to create careers for people.