Gerald Chertavian

Businessman

1965-05-15

Quotes by Gerald Chertavian

• One can fall into the 'soft bigotry of low expectations.'

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• The saying in business is that, 'You hire for skills and you fire for behavior.' And one would argue that in order to move up in career, to be promoted, to take on additional responsibility, in many ways that's linked more to the attitudes and behaviors that you carry rather than what you know technically about a given subject.

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• When it comes to expanding opportunity, businesses and young adults are not the sources of the problem - they are a substantial part of the solution.

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• You have, unfortunately, a K-12 educational system where the requirements to graduate are not the requirements to be college and career-ready. So if you want young adults who are college and career-ready, our K-12 system right now does not have that as its standard.

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• Year Up for me is a year in which the young adults that we serve have an opportunity to move up in their lives and gain the access and opportunity they need to realize their potential.

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