Learn something new every day.
You know the funny thing, I don’t get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.
Rules are meant to be broken.
Watch, listen, and learn. You can’t know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.
He was also efficient and gave me his four-step formula for success: 1. Get in. 2. Get it done. 3. Get it done right. 4. And get out.
Don’t depend on anyone but yourself for providing financial security.
Focus is essential to success, and successful people are people who can focus.
Education is the best provision for old age.
[On school] Not only did I know that I wasn’t one of the smart kids in the class, but so did everyone else.
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.
All of life is a constant education.
You cant learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
Community colleges are certainly one of America’s best-kept secrets.
What I’m learning is that there is so much to unlearn.
I went to college on an art scholarship at the American Academy of Art, but the education comes from being passionate about objects, spaces, colors and the way they affect your senses.
I never let schooling interfere with my education.
Higher education cannot be a luxury reserved just for a privileged few. It is an economic necessity for every family. And every family should be able to afford it.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
My first task is to help students reject 18 years of poor learning that teaches them that knowledge is a product rather than a process.
Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won’t come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.
As a kid I had a hard time reading in school. I was the kid who would go one period a day to the class for kids with learning disabilities.
I never cut class. I loved getting A’s, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.
