Guy Ryder Quotes

College education is the engine of social mobility in this country.

For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete.

Every job you do, you gain more experience. You never stop learning.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

The best escalator to opportunity in America is education.

If you want to earn more, learn more.

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

I am grateful for the great education at a public university that Germany gave me, and that - added to a little luck - allowed me to achieve. Education is the key to a career, and its basis has to be provided by government.

If you've been working since you were a teenager and working at a reasonably decent level, then you don't expect that you're going to be firmly in your 40s and start moving up in the world, if you like.

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.

I believe that it is higher education's purpose and calling to keep open the door to the American dream.

When I was starting out, I followed along the path that seemed to be marked out for me - from high school to college to law school to professional life.

Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.

Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.

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.

Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.

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.

The best jobs will go to the best educated people.

Education is the first step on the ladder to economic empowerment.

Education and work are the levers to uplift the people.

Only 28 percent of American adults have a college degree, but most of us in this group find ourselves in workplaces in social milieus where almost everybody has been to college. A social chasm is opening up between those in educated society and those in non-educated society, and you are beginning to see vast behavioral differences between the two groups.

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

You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that's the one thing people can't take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.

I actually didn't finish NYU. I would have, but I was lucky enough to get my foot in the door before I graduated.

The true value proposition of education is employment.