David Geffen

Why not blame the libraries? They’re full of violent books.

You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it’s not that way at all, it’s something else.

Steve Jobs didn’t give a shit about money, and I do give a shit about money. I wanted to have a lot of money. I thought it would change my life, which it did, but not in the ways I expected.

[on Bill and Hillary Clinton] Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it’s troubling.

[‘Why don’t you manage me’ – Laura Nyro] Eventually I thought do I really believe that she could be one of the biggest stars in the world? Should I give up my career at this point in my life, where I’m doing so well, and put all my marbles in Laura’s [Nyro] basket? And I woke up one morning and I thought if you really believe it – go for it.

I’ve always thought that each person invented himself for whatever reasons, for whatever circumstances, through whatever he has gone through, that we are each a figment of our own imagination. And some people have a greater ability to imagine than others.

Many schools include a service project as part of their curriculum, and many corporations have in-house projects for their employees or give them time off to do volunteer work.

In teaching the children at Greenfield Village, we are trying to get back some of the solid McGuffey qualities.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad.

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

As precious as knowledge itself is the learning. As precious as any reward is the earning.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.

The educated Southerner has no use for an ‘R’, except at the beginning of a word.

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.

What is life but education, anyway?

Over the years, I have again and again asked fellow believers in a free society how they managed to escape the contagion of their collectivist intellectual environment. No name has been mentioned more often as the source of enlightenment than Friedrich Hayek’s.

School reports were always pretty bad. I never ever did my homework. I always turned up for lessons as I liked my teachers but my report said I didn’t try very hard.

Do not neglect your life skills, which should include a healthy dose of financial education.

Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.