27 Quotes by Marty Nemko

We're in an era in which we want to believe people have roughly equal potential. IQ gives the lie to that.

It's absurd how aspirants to designer-label colleges become obsessed with perfection so they can get into one. I'm not convinced it's worth prostituting yourself for that.

Some parents let kids "learn on their own skin" and many of those kids end up, as adults, languishing on their parents' sofas.

I think people's feeling the need to be more dependent on others is caused more by the lack of good-paying jobs and by today's zeitgeist that insists it takes a village. That's disempowering although possibly true for many people.

Only someone who already knows and likes you is likely to give you a good job with modest relevant experience.

Answering ads rarely works for career changers because you have no experience in the job for which you're applying.

If you don't know what career you'd change to, I've come to believe in starting with your values. What do you care most about: producing a new product, a cause, health, something unpopular but important, whatever. Next, get expertise in that, perhaps not at State U let alone private U but at You U: self-study, articles,, webinars, volunteering, etc. Then use your network rather than answering ads to land a launchpad job in that career.

Entrepreneurship may be the most under-taught subject.

Liberalism's key principle is to redistribute wealth from the haves to the have nots. That takes money from the entities with the greatest potential to improve society (for example, corporations that create jobs, invent life-saving medicines, etc.) and redistributes it to the people, whom on average, will never contribute more to society than to hold a menial job.