Quotes About Credentials

I'm a highly-educated man, maybe a shocker to some. I have a master's degree. I'm no dumbo.

I'm the guy to call. Look at the resume. I have kids of my own. I have dogs.

I was a partner at Pricewaterhouse before I got my four year degree.

It's not an advantage to be without a PhD. But it's an advantage not to have taken a PhD because of the things that they do to you to get you into the slot that they want you in.

La llamada "intelectualidad" ve con infinito desdén a todo aquel que no pasó por las escuelas oficiales, para dejarse llenar de "sabiduría". Nunca se pregunta: ¿Qué sabe el individuo?, y sí: ¿Qué estudió? Para esas criaturas "cultas" más vale la cabeza hueca, bien protegida por títulos, que el muchacho más despierto.

People make a mistake when they think that if you just accumulate a set number of things on your resume, it's going to lead you to a particular place - the pattern of essentially compiling credentials to climb your way up a ladder. That may work, but that's not at all what happened to me.

the land of opportunity, where credentials mattered less than demonstrated ability.

people don't get paid for what they know or for their credentials. They ONLY get paid according to the value they deliver.

He couldn't see any point in absorbing information in a formal setting and reproducing it on demand for the sake of gaining a certificate.

Companies want to be able to hire employees with an elite university diploma to make their personnel lists look impressive.

Many are asking what my credentials are and what I can do for the Philippines. They are telling me that they heard I am a womanizer. That is true. That is very true.

In appointing someone to serve on the Alabama Supreme Court, it is imperative to appoint someone with impeccable legal credentials and with unquestioned character and integrity - Judge Brad Mendheim exceeds those requirements.

God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.

I don't believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.

As an American I am not so shocked that Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize without any accomplishments to his name, America gave him the White House based on the same credentials.

I rather doubt that life has a meaning. If I thought perhaps it did, and I wanted to find out what its meaning is, I don't imagine I'd ask someone whose credentials consist of a PhD in philosophy.

This room was the resort of men who hadn't much beyond a sense of themselves and weren't inclined to have that sense diminished. Harkness recognised a feeling he had experienced in other East-End pubs, and understood precisely where the tension came from. It came from the realisation that just by coming in you had shucked the protection of your social status. In this place your only credentials were yourself.

private school teachers tend to have fewer credentials and to cling to traditional teaching styles, such as lecturing while students sit in rows and take notes. Public school teachers, by contrast, are much more likely to be certified, to hold higher degrees, and to embrace research-based innovations in curriculum and pedagogy

You know what GED stands for? Good Enough Diploma.

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

The hiring rules are strictly followed, no matter who the applicant. Not long after she graduated from Harvard, Molly Munger applied at Munger, Tolles for an associate's position. She interviewed with Carla Hills, but Hills did not offer her a job, allegedly because Molly had not made the Harvard Law Review. Apparently in Hills estimation, that meant Molly's credentials weren't quite up to Munger, Tolles's standards.4

Resumés are ridiculous

You have to build your credentials as a candidate, not just as a woman. You also have to be willing to exercise power. We've been educated to be mothers, peacemakers, but we must learn that we can't please everybody.