No College Degree Quotes

#1. I'm not going to lie - it's insulting to be praised for being a 'woman' with 'no college degree.'

Sophia Amoruso

#2. Get into the music business. This is the business that you have absolutely no requirements. You listen to music, you need no college degree.

Curtis Jackson

#3. I want to go to school. College. Get a degree. I want to make a difference.

Maya Banks

#4. But I don't know how I'll ever get a college degree and rise in the world with no high school diploma and eyes like piss holes in the snow, as everyone tells me.

Frank McCourt

#5. So I graduated from college with a degree in journalism and was ready to find my dream job at a newspaper in addition to one good man who owned his own car and was certain about his sexuality, my two new, revised qualifying criteria for a potential date.

Laurie Notaro

#6. I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.

Patrick Carman

#7. I actually have a degree in music and was aware that music was a tool used in therapy. I didn't realize how far it had come since I was in college in the mid-seventies.

J.K. Simmons

#8. I'm born in Alaska, grew up in Colorado, went to college in Colorado, went to Colorado State, and I actually finished my degree.

Derek Theler

#9. Graduating from college doesn't mean you're smart, said Mike Mussina who graduated from Stanford in 3 1/2 years, but it does mean you're smart enough to know that having a college degree would be a good thing.

John Feinstein

#10. The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.

Helen Garner

#11. The cost of college should never discourage anyone from going after a valuable degree.

Arne Duncan

#12. I've been waiting more than 30 years to say this: 'Dad, I always told you I'd come back and get my degree.' I want to thank Harvard for this honor. I'll be changing my job next year and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume!

Bill Gates

#13. In 1960, I went to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and received the B.A. degree in Chemistry in 1964.

John E. Walker

#14. She wasn't some little princess from the suburbs who just graduated college with a humanities degree, she knew what people were really like.

David Wong

#15. I got my Bachelor's degree in nursing and worked nine years - even taught nursing in a college - before I stopped and said to myself, 'This is not who I am. I am not really a nurse inside. I'm a writer.'

Sue Monk Kidd

#16. 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.

Derek Bok

#17. I was a pretty delinquent little kid. My folks and I didn't get along, so I basically moved out ... put myself through high school and then college by working. I'm only a half-year short of a degree in history.

Al Jourgensen

#18. I thought, I can't do advertising any more, so I was downloading all these PDF applications from community colleges. And I thought, I'll become a paramedic. I'll get a two-year associate degree, if I can get in.

Augusten Burroughs

#19. Good English, well spoken and well written will open more doors than a college degree ... Bad English will slam doors you don't even know exist.

William Raspberry

#20. Yes, your kids should go to school. No, you shouldn't bankroll their degree whatever the cost. You've spent your life creating a sound financial plan; don't upend it by suspending your retirement savings or taking out a home equity line of credit to pay for a pricey college.

Suze Orman

#21. You can't get a degree at Tisch College. It serves as an amplifier for what your focus is. If you're an engineer, you can take courses on understanding how to move a river in Africa to bring hydroelectric power to a community.

Jonathan Tisch

#22. Cities are broke, there are no jobs, people without a high school diploma and sometimes even with a college degree can't get jobs.

Rachel Grady

#23. It's kind of like a college degree ... when you get one, no one can take it from you. When you get to say for the rest of your life that you've got a platinum album, that really means something.

Luke Bryan

#24. To be a writer you have to write
and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you.

Michelle Richmond

#25. No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a "Master of Arts" and a "Doctor of Philosophy" after catering to an ordinary man for a few years.

Helen Rowland

#26. In my mother's day, she didn't go to college. Not a lot of women did. Now for every two men who get a college degree, three women will do the same.

Hanna Rosin

#27. You didn't need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own.

Jeannette Walls

#28. Let me ask you: Should only children of the wealthy have access to quality early education? Should only children of the wealthy have access to a college degree? The answer - the only answer - is: no.

Lincoln Chafee

#29. Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate.

Alexis Herman

#30. Sometimes one has to be humble enough to start at the bottom with a minimum-wage job even if you have a college degree. Once you get your foot in the door, you can prove your worth and rapidly move up the ladder. If you never get in the door, it is unlikely that you will rise to the top.

Ben Carson

#31. I am a firm believer in education and have worked very hard to tell young Latinos that they must go to college and that, if possible, they should pursue an advanced degree. I am convinced that education is the great equalizer.

Jimmy Smits

#32. As a child psychiatrist, I knew too much about the statistics of foster care - less than one percent graduate college with a bachelor's degree, more than fifty percent of foster kids end up homeless after reaching eighteen, and most are dead by twenty-six.

Penny Reid

#33. After 9/11, the amount of applicants the FBI received increased exponentially. Whereas you used to require a college degree, and it was a small group of people who were just out of college, after 9/11, it changed.

Aaron Tveit

#34. My advice to the college kids would be make sure you get your degree and then go after the dream.

Cung Le

#35. To people I know in the bottom income brackets, living paycheck to paycheck, the Gig Economy has been old news for years. What's new is the way it's hit the demographic that used to assume that a college degree from an elite school was the passport to job security.

Tina Brown

#36. I went to school for creative writing in college, and I wound up about six hours short of my degree.

Jason Isbell

#37. Access to a college degree is critical.

John Sharp

#38. I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.

Nadine Velazquez

#39. It was a time when a degree was expected but not much respected.

Pawan Mishra

#40. I went to college and got my degree in acting, but because it was all theater, I really consider my first couple years on 'Mad Men' as amazing training for working in television and for acting on-camera.

Gillian Jacobs

#41. After college I got a job and started working. This new career had absolutely nothing to do with my degree.

Jason Najum

#42. I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

Sara Paretsky

#43. Students can spend their money better than government can. It should not require a federal loan and decades of debt for students to get a college degree. Price limits access - plain and simple.

Rick Scott

#44. A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life.

Edward Malloy

#45. For me specifically, it was important to graduate. In my family, I was one of the first graduates. My mom did not have a college degree. My dad did not have a college degree.

Brian Acton

#46. On education, in order to ensure that America remains a world leader, we must create an educated, skilled workforce in the vital areas of science, math, engineering and information technology. At the same time, we must give every student access to a college degree.

John F. Tierney

#47. It wasn't the degree that counted but what you did with it; he believed that too many Americans wasted time and money on college simply for the sake of a fancy piece of paper.

Nell Freudenberger

#48. I don't have a college degree. I started working at 19 on a tiny newspaper. I've covered everything from weddings to crime to criminal weddings.

Celia Rivenbark