Joseph Dunford Quotes

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.

The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it.

Our managers need to have a strong integration of managerial skills and technical understanding. One cannot substitute for the other.

A draft doesn't produce the people we need to satisfy our real manpower shortage. We need specialists to keep our jets flying.

Rotary provides training at all levels so that those who have been selected for leadership positions have the opportunity to learn and apply leadership principles to their jobs.

You don't have to be a nerd or a programmer or a network engineer to make a difference.

Community colleges need to be upgraded. We got to have training for real jobs. We've got a lot of jobs that are going unfilled because we don't have the technology in the heads of graduating college students to deal with them.

In many companies, the person who talks the best usually gets the job. I got snowed by a few of those people over the years. I still think communication is important, but I don't think there's always a correlation between being a great communicator and other virtues that make for a great leader.

Sure, it's fun to chat with people with interesting backgrounds who seem to have a passion for your company. But a job interview is not a friendly chat. You need to determine whether candidates, can they really do the job. So ask them to prove it.

I tried to hostess... but they fired me after four days because I couldn't figure out how seating plans worked.

Of everyone else who was running, and there were some very talented people, none of them had anywhere near the experience I had in hiring people, holding them accountable, creating systems for accountability.

Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents.

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

I have no people reporting to me and don't expect to. My competency is in the tech realm.

In the business world and the volunteer world, each job has certain requirements that must be met in order for that job to be done properly and for that organization to survive and prosper.

I couldn't do anything. I'd work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn't hack it. I couldn't even type! I had no skills whatsoever outside of show business.

If I would take a job with a professional league, I need to be ready.

In most job interviews, people say they are looking for people skills and emotional intelligence. That's reasonable, but the question is, how do you define what that looks like?

I would be better at my job if I were technical.

I think I've done a good job in the industry from the standpoint of employee morale and customer satisfaction, and as an innovative thinker in tech.

I'm not even an engineer. I don't have a college degree; I hire guys with college degrees.

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

It’s not the plans, it’s the people. I think we should have Defense Department people.

In our high-tech economy, preparation for earning a good living is more readily secured by those who can read, write, speak, and figure well and who have learned how to think critically and reflectively, rather than by those given specialized job training.

Technical people tend to be more 'techie,' and management people are more 'managerial.'