Elaine Chao Quotes

It’s harder and harder to get a job if you just have a strong back. You need an education.

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

I got the first job and kept going. Once I got a job, I very much wanted to keep getting jobs, basically. I did try to learn what I could in those first couple of decades.

The changing economic situation, the changing global market means it is understandable that employers are constantly raising the bar. It is challenging the education system to come up with ever higher standards to meet the expectation of employers.

College education is the great Filipino dream. But in a world of rapid technological change, getting a job or keeping it depends as much on how well one reasons as how well one uses his hands.

I've never had a job in my life that I was better than. I was always just lucky to have a job. And every job I had was a steppingstone to my next job, and I never quit my job until I had my next job.

Apart from finding a first job, college graduates seem to adapt more easily than those with only a high school degree as the economy evolves and labor-market needs change.

The best jobs will go to the best educated people.

The majority of the new jobs being created require higher skills, more education.

Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.

Today many Caribbean workers can be found in the hospital, construction, service and hotel industries, but there is also a growing professional sector.

I think it's become an economic necessity for people to be able to learn and grow throughout their lives, because most people can't get through their entire career with one skill set. We have to keep reinventing ourselves.

Better degrees don't automatically translate into better skills and better jobs and better lives.

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.

The hardest thing in my industry is longevity, getting your next job. It's hard to get the first job, but it's so much harder to get the sixth or seventh as a woman.

With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.

The most important thing for workers to understand is that you have to make yourself indispensable. You must make money for your employer or make his life easier, preferably both. Also, you have to learn as much as you can about your chosen endeavor.

You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job.

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.

I think people tend to apply where they think the greatest opportunities lie.

I think everybody else in Hollywood, including network execs, has the opportunity to ask for a raise or a change in scenery in a much shorter time frame than actors. But I do think the networks have to protect themselves.

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

Japanese were too loyal to companies, and young people see what happened: the loyalty was wasted. They think: 'Look at Americans. They job hop. They seem to be free. That's the way we want to live.'

The best measure of opportunity is access to a job.

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