Henry Ford

Although Mr. Edison was called ‘The Wizard’ of the electrical world and everyone thought that electricity was the coming thing, he actually encouraged me to go with my second car.

The only prosperity the people can afford to be satisfied with is the kind that lasts.

The way out of the depression is to start spending and doing things.

There is safety in small beginnings and there is unlimited capital in the experience gained by growing.

Education not just preparation for life, but part if life itself-a continuous art.

Greatest thing we can produce is character. Everything else can be taken from us, but not our character.

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.

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.

In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.

By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good paying job.

Perhaps because my father never got a college degree himself, he continued to view people who had one with a respect that bordered on awe. In most cases they didn’t deserve it. My father could run circles around most academics and he would have done very well in college, if he’d been able to go.

Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field!

What is life but education, anyway?

Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one’s enemies.

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

I grew up in a working-class neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago where most folks, including my parents, didn’t have college degrees. But with a lot of hard work – and a lot of financial aid – I had the chance to attend Princeton and Harvard Law School, and that gave me the confidence to pursue my ambitions.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

… because in the United States of America, no one should go broke because they chose to go to college.

I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I – if I’m not interested in something, I don’t grasp it.