My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my ‚blackness‘ than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don’t belong.
Michelle ObamaThe bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.
Bill GatesI went to Princeton specifically to study physics.
Jeff BezosThe entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American. All professors, in those now-ancient days, were of the same race and sex.
Ruth Bader GinsburgI’m proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It’s a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.
Lou HoltzThe universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
Fidel CastroThe fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you’re actually helping to make America stronger.
Michelle ObamaMeasure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
Benjamin DisraeliSo we know that it’s not enough for us to simply encourage more people to study abroad. We also need to make sure that they can actually afford it.
Michelle ObamaSome people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you’re good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.
Bill GatesLet’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
H. L. MenckenWhy not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‚Too much of a good thing can be wonderful‘.
Warren BuffettIf you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
Frank ZappaGoing to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.
Ronald ReaganOur brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.
Robert KiyosakiCollege is a refuge from hasty judgment.
Robert FrostI believe that we should own the fruits of our labor and the assets of our creations.
Nipsey HussleTwo kids in their dorm room can’t start anything important in space today. That’s why I want to take the assets I have from Amazon and translate that into the heavy-lifting infrastructure that will allow the next generation to have dynamic entrepreneurialism in space, to build that transportation network.
Jeff BezosBooks constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Thomas JeffersonWhen the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.
Lou HoltzI would counsel people to go to college, because it’s one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.
Bill GatesUniversity politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
Henry KissingerI’ve known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that’s so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn’t you take university courses throughout your entire life?
Jordan PetersonIn the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT’s Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon!
Noam ChomskyThere’s a level of service that we could provide when we’re just at Harvard that we can’t provide for all of the colleges, and there’s a level of service that we can provide when we’re a college network that we wouldn’t be able to provide if we went to other types of things.
Mark ZuckerbergIn K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.
Bill GatesI don’t believe in colleges and universities.
Ray BradburyJust what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?
Thomas SowellMany institutions of higher learning will grant an 18- to 30-month deferral to prospective missionaries. This will enable you elders and sisters to serve without worrying about where you will begin your advanced education. We are very grateful to leaders of educational institutions who are making such planning possible!
Russell M. NelsonAssets put money in your pocket, whether you work or not, and liabilities take money from your pocket.
Robert Kiyosaki