Quotes About Education

The best escalator to opportunity in America is education.

The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.

Marketing takes a day to learn. Unfortunately, it takes a lifetime to master.

I wouldn't wish any specific thing for any specific person - it's none of my business. But the idea that a four-year degree is the only path to worthwhile knowledge is insane. It's insane.

Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it...only business people think it isn't necessary to train.

Investment students need only two well-taught courses - How to Value a Business and How to Think About Market Prices

Never underestimate your own ignorance.

If you learn something new every day, you can teach something new every day

The most successful people in life have the best information

In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don't make mistakes.

I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.

Business schools make a fortune forcing their students to take in a HUGE amount of information. The majority of it is theoretical. The majority of that is useless.

What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.

I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?

Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.

Financial hydrogen bombs built on personal computers by 26-year-olds with MBAs.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

If Thomas Edison had gone to business school, we would all be reading by larger candles.

Good PR educates people; that's all it is. You can't con people in this business. The products speak for themselves.

The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.

I was told that my going to college wouldn't be good for my career. I think that's nonsense. It's good to empower yourself by cutting yourself off from this business every once in a while.

Train everyone lavishly. You can't overspend on training.

Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don't anymore. But I still enjoy it - just the physical act and all the - the whole business of making a thing out of language.

Only one fellow in ten thousand understands the currency question, and we meet him every day.